| 1806 - 688 pagine
...1807. ORIGINAL PAPERS. FOR Tilt, EMERALD. THE WANDERER, JVb. 81. LOTTERIES. In continuation. ,_....They keep the word of promise to the ear, But break it to the sens? IT was stated in our last number that lotteries must be viewed in the ight of a compulsory tax... | |
| 1820 - 704 pagine
...acted upon this prinriple; why we» A« no* Aer ally f Why did he tamper and temporise? Why did he keep the word of promise to the ear but break it to the hopes of Europe? I apprehend, therefore, that it is out of the power, at least of a British subject,... | |
| United States. Congress - 1832 - 756 pagine
...they mean something worse than no protection. Why should your laws hold out delusive prospects? Why "keep the word of promise to the ear, but break it to the hope?" Is it wise, is it just, for any Government to offer inducements for capital and labor to change their... | |
| 1886 - 684 pagine
...never submit; and thus the States, by the creation of this Government for special ends, would only keep the word of promise to the ear, but break it to the sense. This is the first attempt, since the formation of the constitution — the existence of this... | |
| Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 706 pagine
...to capture him as soon as he should put out to sea. It altogether seemed as if the enemy intended " to keep the word of promise to the ear, but break it to the hope." So fully were his followers possessed with this idea, that many of them counselled him to retire to... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1828 - 366 pagine
...to capture him as soon as he should put out to sea. It altogether seemed as if the enemy intended " to keep the word of promise to the ear, but break it to the hope." So fully were his followers possessed with this idea, that many of them counselled him to retire to... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1870 - 976 pagine
...religion, properly speaking, themselves. It is suspected that an evasion is intended, and that it is meant to keep the word of promise to the ear, but break it to the hope. There is an instinct in the religious mind which excites a suspicion that the principle is enunciated... | |
| 1830 - 428 pagine
...investigate, had changed—or rather, not changed, but grown, with the develop-, ment of mind and body. A third year elapsed; and if the visions of Marion...imbibes, even from the stones and clods of the base earth—from the water—the air —-the light—from wherever floats the inevitable curse of an original... | |
| 1830 - 430 pagine
...investigate, had changed — or rather, not changed, but grown, with the development of mind and body. A third year elapsed ; and if the visions of Marion...their glory, they were corrected and materialised m the same proportion, as far as they affected the destiny of Malcom, by that knowledge of the world... | |
| 802 pagine
...strict faith with the subscribers. It cannot be urged against the directors of the new house that " they keep the word of promise to the ear, but break it to the hope." In the choregraphic department accessions are being made. Fanny Ellsler is now succeeded by Plunkett,... | |
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