| Alexander Wilson M'Clure - 1835 - 138 Seiten
...their doctrine true. It is sweet to those who love to sin, but cannot abide to pay the damages. ' No rogue e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law.' TRUMBOLL. But do the fervent wishes of the malefactor, that there might be no constables, juries, judges... | |
| David Theodore Hines - 1840 - 204 Seiten
...those who strive to live by their wits rather than by honorable exertions. In other words — " No rogue e'er felt the halter draw, , With good opinion of the law." Had Hines exerted but half the-talent and perseverance which he has exercised as a "professor of appropriation,"... | |
| Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 Seiten
...examples, habits, etc.; after all, a good deal depends •upon the breed. 683. PENALTIES. Trumbull. No rogue e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law. Ed. No person can tell what outrages the unrighteous would please to commit, should the restraints... | |
| Michigan. Legislature - 1853 - 238 Seiten
...indeed. That its execution would in some instances be partially resisted, we have no doubt; for " no rogue e'er felt the halter draw with good opinion of the law;" but this is not a sufficient reason for opposing its enactment and enforcement. If the people have... | |
| B. J. Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1853 - 714 Seiten
...kinds, denouncing them as nuisances because he knows their power of counteraction to himself : " No rogue e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law." From their peculiar position, elements and opportunities of influence, the ministry have ever been... | |
| United States. Congress - 1854 - 726 Seiten
...on account of his official conduct, Mr. W. thought it very probable the fact was so; for, said he, What rogue e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law ? The absence of evidence, so easily to have been obtained if the charges had been true, was a strong... | |
| United States. Congress - 1854 - 730 Seiten
...on account of his official conduct, Mr. W. thought it very probable the fact was so ; for, said he, What rogue e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law 1 The absence of evidence, so easily to have been obtained if the charges had been true, was a strong... | |
| United States. Congress - 1854 - 724 Seiten
...on account of his official conduct, Mr. W. thought it very probable the fact was so ; fur, said he, What rogue e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law 1 The absence of evidence, so easily to have been obtained if the charges had been true, was a strong... | |
| 1854 - 652 Seiten
...province of civil law. This is suspicious, and reminds us strongly of the Hudibrastic couplet : — " No rogue e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law." , But conclusive as might be the evidence drawn from immemorial usage, we are not obliged to depend... | |
| Seba Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith - 1856 - 592 Seiten
...make a terrible outcry against the Vigilance Committee, and call it all sorts of hard names ; but " What rogue e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the lawf" We have the best authority for believing that almost the unanimous sentiment of the respectable... | |
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