| 1861 - 454 стор.
...necessaries of life that we had to submit to, for we found that our City German Jew shipowner but' held the word of promise to the ear, and broke it to the ' hope.' Suffice it, we were ' heinously unprovided,' but escaped the absolute necessity of eating... | |
| 1919 - 950 стор.
...war. With uncomplaining fortitude, our district met the shortcomings of the government, which kept the word of promise to the ear and broke it to the hope. Let us think about this thing further while there is time. We are past the delirious Monday of... | |
| Margaret Oliphant - 2005 - 609 стор.
...up in the second generation ; and' how the supreme Disposer of events, like the classic Pates "kept the word of promise to the ear, and broke it to the heart." Mr. Robertson, of Brighton, was himself a man of many disappointments, and it gave, no doubt,... | |
| John Neal - 1854 - 222 стор.
...monarch, und said to him, ' To-morrow shall thou and thy sons be with me' I — she had not ' kept the word of promise to the ear, and broke it to the hope' — yet, to him, the believing Saul, and not the unbelieving, that lock of wool might have been... | |
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