...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,...

...been 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...

...only enables them to prevent it as an evil, any thing more than a shadow 1 Was it not emphatically ' keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope ?' Was it not even less than the virtual representation, with which our fathers were attempted to be...

...gentleman tells Protestants a flattering tale, that they have as infallible a rule, as Catholics. This is keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the heart. Does ke not in the same speech, acknowledge that their fallible opinions, doctrines, traditions...

...Hawes, the Whig member for Lambeth, and Mr.'Warburton, the father of the Bill, as Chairman. This is keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope ; it is a seeming compliance with the demand for reformation, but a real denial of justice. If the...

...narrow transports during the whole winter ; for it taught us to regard our Colonel as a deceiver, who, keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the sense, was not to be trusted. Desperate as our situation might well appear to be, there were not wanting...

...forbid the people exercising the very power which he was so anxious to give to them. It seemed like "keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope." Mr. BRENT replied to the suggestion, as to making the amendment general, that the article which he...

...plains, the dog-cart road, and the impassable ridge, are delineated in Plate IV. Macbeth speaks of " keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope." look upon the plains below. A short cut, " up a hill perpendicular," as Shakspeare haa it, brought...

...is worth. But a million of dollars is to be withheld ! This is a characteristic specimen of holding the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope. What does it mean ? Does it mean that the contractor shall do five millions worth of work, and shall...

...corrupting their society longer against the will of the colonists, and reproaching it with " holding out the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope." Money has been extensively subscribed to carry on the agitation, and thirty citizens of the city of...