 | 1819 - 614 стор.
...seven volumes, it would uot, we suspect, be possible to make hall a v«. lume. This is truly giving " the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope." What the public wanted was, not specimens of the compositions of such poets as Pope ¡md Thomson, but... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 338 стор.
...disappointed, knew no bounds; he stamped on the earth, and summoning the demon, upbraided if. for keepmg the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the sense. " I will not believe," he cried, " that thou canst perform half the bargain, unless you instantly... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 326 стор.
...adds what would seem to make this interference of little, if any use ; looking very much like "keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope." It is in these words : "yet, in doing this, the right of permitting to you the enjoyment of a separate... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1831 - 892 стор.
...which we had our choice : as to taking the first— that of a bit-by-bit reform — that of keeping " The word of promise to the ear* And breaking it to the hope "— .it<if ,aasoijO HI that of introducing a half measure as a step to future improvement, at a mure... | |
 | 1863 - 950 стор.
...as directors.' It would be allowing people to take advantage of their own wrong; it would be keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope, it would be contrary to all j ustice to strike them off the list, and in the highest degree subversive... | |
 | 1832 - 158 стор.
...IV. One more instance of the legal juggling played off upon the slaves — of the villanous " keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope," — and we have done with this part of our subject : Robert Aird died in 1819, leaving fourteen slaves... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1833 - 752 стор.
...vassalage to the tariff monopolists. Those who offer that alternative, know that it is but keeping the "word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope;" they know that it cafmot be embraced without ruinous sacrifice. They know that it would involve a sacrifice... | |
 | George Croly - 1834 - 666 стор.
...ascribed to the delusions of the evil spirit,—a mixture of seeming truth with falsehood, the " keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope." " Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil," possessed exactly that portion of truth which was sufficient... | |
 | William M. Holland - 1835 - 390 стор.
...enables them to prevent it as an evil, any thing more than a shadow ? Was it not emphatically ' keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope 1' Was it not even less than the virtual representation, with which our fathers were attempted to be... | |
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