 | David Woolf Marks - 1882 - 316 pàgines
...concede more. The measure was founded on the system of giving by one clause and taking away by another, of keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope — a system acted on to a \ considerable extent in the Bill of 1859, but brought to a hitherto unequalled... | |
 | Alexander Maclaren - 1884 - 368 pàgines
...actually spoken to men who can be a " faithful God." He will not palter with a double sense, keeping His word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope. But not only His articulate promises, but also His own past actions, bind Him. He is always true to... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1885 - 484 pàgines
...comes to be a state. This would be in direct conflict with the legitimate end in view — it would be 'keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope.' " Congr. Globe, 1st Sess., 33d Congr., App., p. 721. without law, in respect to slavery, and there... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1885 - 490 pàgines
...to be a state. This •would be in direct conflict with the legitimate end in view — it would be ' keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the tope.' " Congr. Globe, 1st Sess., 38d Congr., App., p. 721. CONSEQUENCES OF NON-INTERVENTION. 389 without... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1885 - 486 pàgines
...be a state. This would be in direct conflict with the legitimate end in view—it would be'keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the Uope.' " Congr. Globe, 1st Sess., 33d Congr., App., p. 721. without law, in respect to slavery, and... | |
 | Duncan Campbell - 1886 - 354 pàgines
...Calderwood observes, " reputed honest for their own pairts." The manner in which Argyle paltered with truth, keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope, shows that he had everything to fear from an interview between M'Gregor and the sovereign, and corroborates... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - 1887 - 262 pàgines
...dares to accept a piece of money, no matter how willing you may be to give it. But there is. a form of keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope ; the guides are allowed to sell photographs of the various objects of interest, and sometimes they... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1887 - 648 pàgines
...only enables them to prevent it as an evil, anything more than a shadow ? 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... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1887 - 640 pàgines
...only enables them to prevent it as an evil, anything more than a shadow ? 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... | |
 | Samuel Thompson Lowrie - 1888 - 120 pàgines
...mean, in enjoining on us f ^ to drink " the fruit of the vine " ? The worst of all deceptions is that of keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the heart. We dare not warp our Lord's words from their real intent by alleging that according to their... | |
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