 | Hudson (N.Y.) - 1803 - 438 pages
...their replication, finds no fault with such a law as that generally termed the " Sedition Law." But, that " No rogue e'er felt the halter draw, " With good opinion of tlie LAW," . Is completely verified in the opposition of the fac tious and unprincipled, to a law which... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - Universalism - 1835 - 138 pages
...wish 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 - Adventure and adventurers - 1840 - 204 pages
...among 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 - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 564 pages
...before you are generous. [See 508.] 828. ROGUES. When rogues fall out, honest men come by their own. No rogue e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law. Give a rogue rope, and he will hang himself. Ed. Rogues revel on spoils that rob them of heaven. 829.... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1853 - 238 pages
...war 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 - Presbyterian Church - 1853 - 714 pages
...all 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 - United States - 1854 - 724 pages
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1854 - 730 pages
...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 - United States - 1854 - 726 pages
...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... | |
 | Joel Munsell - Albany (N.Y.) - 1859 - 532 pages
...oratory — altogether too Calvinistic to suit the taste of his hearers. But it must be remembered " That no rogue e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law." Doctor Nott, I should say, was neither a Calvinist nor a Lutheran. In other words, he was no bigoted... | |
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No rogue e'er felt the halter draw 'With good opinion of the law ; and always those who desire mastery of the world will rail at a nation which will not submit. 
