 | 1806 - 688 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | 1829 - 600 pàgines
...generous, even to him, to fulfil, in the letter, an engagement which never existed in the spirit — " To keep the word of promise to the ear. But break it to the hope !" A third year elapsed ; and if the visions of Marion had lost aught of their glory, they were corrected... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1832 - 756 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1828 - 366 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 706 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 802 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | 1835 - 458 pàgines
...of another's inferior judgement, to overreach him in bargain, to circumvent him in an agreement, and to keep the word of promise to the ear but break it to the hope,—in short to leave out as a thing of course in money transactions, and in dealings of trade,... | |
 | 1830 - 468 pàgines
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And keep the word of promise to the ear, But break it to the heart. 
