 | 1807 - 556 pagina’s
...name, a shadow ; -uo* et pn&terea mhil, a v.tin and empty sound ; in insulting mockery ; — that '' keeps the word of promise to the ear, and breaks it to the sense." Nay, it would be worse than an imaginary bene.. fit ; it would be a real evil ; — rfor it... | |
 | George Townsend - 1819 - 156 pagina’s
...object is to prove only that the standards of the twelve tribes were taken from the Zodiacal signs, "he keeps the word of promise to the ear, and breaks it to the faith ;" his arguments undoubtedly identify the Patriarchs themselves, with these signs. Gad is shown... | |
 | 1826 - 570 pagina’s
...witches; what if it be no more than ati empty sound, : " That palters with us in a double sense, That keeps the word of promise to the ear, And breaks it to the hope;" what if the poetry be bad, the sentiment mean, and the note of tides and seasons to be found only in... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1827 - 344 pagina’s
...well understood by the whole party, he exclaimed — " ' You palter with us in a double sense, That keeps the word of promise to the ear, And breaks it to our hope.' " * Tom begged that his father would explain to him how it could possibly be that the earth... | |
 | 1832 - 592 pagina’s
...right would at the same time be a negation to his success. Like Macbeth's "juggling fiends" it " speaks the word of promise to the ear, And breaks it to the hope " The will «•' lord Leigh first became the subject of legal disquisition in the year 1808, when... | |
 | 1832 - 678 pagina’s
...severe preceptor ; but, nevertheless, a preceptor " that never palters with us in a double sense ; that keeps the word of promise to the ear, and breaks it to our hope." Go with me, and inquire of the first fellow-traveller to eternity whom you meet, whether... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1836 - 684 pagina’s
...are at variance; when he promises, and does not perform, or even attempt to performi when "he speaks the word of promise to the ear, and breaks it to the hope," the whole world will at once pronounce him insincere. If this be true in the transactions of common... | |
 | Pennsylvania Hall Association (Philadelphia, Pa.), Samuel Webb - 1838 - 222 pagina’s
...most true. But it is not the land of performance ; and that, in short, is our very objection, " it keeps the word of promise to the ear, and breaks it to the hope." The mind of man is ever studious of change and pleased with novelty. If, therefore, Liberia presented... | |
 | George Robins Gliddon - 1844 - 92 pagina’s
...cataracts, was the eradle of the ancient Egyptians. Bryant, who, by the way, frequently breathes " the word of promise to the ear, and breaks it to the hope," has judiciously remarked, that " among many learned men, who have betaken themselves to these researches,... | |
 | George John T. Spencer (bp. of Madras.) - 1845 - 380 pagina’s
...from all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil. A temptation is always a deceit. " It keeps the word of promise to the ear, and breaks it to the sense;" for of course it promises to make us in some way or other happier than we are already, or else... | |
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... he speaks the word of promise to the ear, and breaks it to the hope,' the whole world will at once pronounce him insincere. 
