| John Stark Ravenscroft (bp. of North Carolina.) - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 642
...there is another life in connexion with this, the means of attaining it must be within our reach. To keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope, is truly the character of the father of lies, not of the Father of mercies and GOD of all comfort and... | |
| Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 554
...tranquillized Europe. But to grant a national compact, for the purpose of its immediate violation, to " keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the sense," was at once to rekindle all the angry passions, and to put them into possession of the only... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 724
...what grounds or what principle the alteration was proposed, for, if carried, it would indeed be " to keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the sense." But the noble Duke had referred to the charter of Charles '2nd, and had said that the right... | |
| Michael Thomas Sadler - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 704
...hereafter, the number of children would by no means be diminished,) it would, were it listened to, only " keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the sense." Or if so far imposed as to be operative, like all other forced and unnatural remedies, it would... | |
| 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 1034
...(to BANDV, SQUINTL'.M, and PECH.^ " And be those juggling fiends no more believed, That palter witli us in a double sense, That keep the word of promise to our car, And break it to our hope." SHEPHERD. The verra bit weans that used to ride on his back, wi'... | |
| John Fanning Watson - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 902
...imaginative schemings of some, and the aversion to honest labour in others. They are a race who hold "the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hopes" — of thousands! Their flaring and intrusive signs and advertisements, which meet the eye at... | |
| 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 646
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| عدد الصفحات: 498
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| John Galt - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...soon in possession of forty, and some of them almost new, and very rich, for the Glasgow people do not keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope; on the contrary, her performance •was a great night in the royal city . The provost's wife, or at... | |
| Thomas Bent Hodgson - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 518
...Turnbull tell her? that her legacy was more than all the rest put together ; just to keep her quiet, to keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope ; and now Dr. Turnbull comes forward to avow that he had prevaricated with her, poor girl ! to lead... | |
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