 | Andrew Johnson - 1868 - 532 pągines
...prepared just now ; that is to say, whose argument is in print. So that, in this shape, it would be keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope. Mr. JOHNSON. What time would the manager like? Mr. Manager WILLIAMS. If you would say "written" instead... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1868 - 528 pągines
...and let the majority decide the question? Never, Sir, was there a more signal instance of " holding the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope." Where are the "ample" means of obtaining relief from the unendurable tyranny that grinds down the free-State... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1869 - 790 pągines
...enforcing, in such a case, the ultimate liability of the stockholder? This, in truth, is " holding the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope." So much in answer to the position taken in argument by counsel. That they have been forced to occupy... | |
 | 1870 - 272 pągines
...neither worse nor better, probably, than the ladies' courses of the better class of seminaries. This is " keeping the word* of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope." The college that professes to do the work of a college for women, whether separately or in connection... | |
 | lady Catherine Osborne - 1870 - 372 pągines
...— for I can call it nothing else — of alluring children by making a solemn engagement, and then " keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope." I send you the little tract on selfexamination, which the Christian Knowledge Society have published,... | |
 | Freemasons. Grand Lodge of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - 1871 - 588 pągines
...contemplate. It is at best a technical, not substantial, complaint with the rest : it is but giving the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope. Nor, in the view of your committee, is the difficulty relieved by the fact which appears in the evidence... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1873 - 856 pągines
...characterize it as an imposture, I regard simply as a delusion and a snare, "a paltering in a double sense," "keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope." Rather than that, sir, neither to it nor to the instrument in which it is contained shall I subscribe... | |
 | 1875 - 852 pągines
...of superstitious reverence for the obligations of his oath ; but such paltering in a double sense, keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope, is scarcely consistent with Papal pretensions to personal infallibility and divine inspiration. At... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1875 - 632 pągines
...gentleman tells Protestants a flattering tale, that they have is infallible a rule, as Catholics. This is keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the heart. Does he not in the same speech, acknowledge that their fallible opinions, doctrines, traditions... | |
 | Henry Willis Baxley - 1875 - 446 pągines
...necessary to turn them to account." Is it wonderful, that with such high examples of duplicity — holding the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope — Spain should have given birth to an ecclesiastical brotherhood, whose power of evil comes of the... | |
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