| 1819 - 614 páginas
...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 - 328 páginas
...thus disappointed, knew no bounds; he stamped on the earth, and summoning the demon, upbraided it for keeping 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... | |
| John Galt - 1824 - 338 páginas
...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... | |
| 1825 - 610 páginas
...thus disappointed, knew no bounds; he stamped on the earth, and summoning the demon, upbraided it for keeping 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 páginas
...though he 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 páginas
...ways of 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... | |
| 1832 - 158 páginas
...effect. 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 páginas
...thraldom of 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... | |
| United States. Congress - 1833 - 748 páginas
...vassalage to the tariff monopolists. Those \vho offer that alternative, know that it is but keeping1 the "word of promise to the ear, and breaking- it to the hope;" they know that it cannot be embraced without ruinous sacriof affection putting1 forth its tiny tendrils,... | |
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