 | Sir Walter Scott - 1832 - 470 страници
...wishes I — fearful of raising expectations, which we may be unable to gratify — desirous not " to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution.... | |
 | David Thom - 1833 - 462 страници
...be rescued from deaths bondage. And, as God cannot " palter with us in a double sense;" as He cannot keep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to the hope; He cannot mean to intimate to us, that his saving the world, is merely, as the orthodox maintain, his... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1835 - 800 страници
...other, the understanding was yet to be executed, and could be so varied by an order in council, "as to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope." Besides, it opened our ports to British vessels several months before our vessels could participate... | |
 | George Canning - 1835 - 650 страници
...Colonial Legislatures act bona fide up to the spirit of that order, with a manifest desire not merely " To keep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to the hope;" not by evasive or illusory enactments, — but with a full and fair intention to carry substantially... | |
 | David Meredith Reese - 1835 - 156 страници
...removing those whose consent you have obtained by such unjustifiable means." Truly this would be to " Keep the word of promise to the ear And break it to the hope." Pray what would be the effect on the victims of these " barbarities," if the Colonization Society were... | |
 | William Jackson,1835 - 1835 - 814 страници
...often confided to his predecessors, and by them never exercised to the detriment of American interests. keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope." Besides, it opened our ports to British vessels several months before our vessels could participate... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1835 - 810 страници
...other, the understanding was yet to be executed, and could be so varied by an order in council, " as to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope." Besides, it opened our ports to British vessels several months before our vessels could participate... | |
 | 1835 - 804 страници
...other, the understanding was yet to bo executed, and could be so varied by an order in council, " as to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope." Besides, it opened our ports to British vessels several months before our vessels could participate... | |
 | William Jay - 1835 - 218 страници
...those whose consent you have obtained by such unjustifiable means ; we will not, to please you, " KSep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to the hope." But alas, it has virtually given official notice that it will transport all whose consent can be obtained,... | |
 | William Jay - 1835 - 234 страници
...whose consent you have obtained by such unjustifiable means ; we will not, to please you, " Keep ihe word of promise to the ear, And break it to the hope." But alas, it has virtually given official notice that it will transport all whose consent can be obtained,... | |
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... keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution. 
