...seven volumes, it would uot, we suspect, be possible to make hall a v«. lume. This is truly giving " the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope." What the public wanted was, not specimens of the compositions of such poets as Pope ¡md Thomson, but...

...only enables them to prevent it as an evil, any thins more than a ehadow ' AVas it not emphatically " keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope ? Was it not even less than tin representation, with which our fathers were attempted to be appeased...

...thus disappointed, knew no bounds; he stamped on the earth, and summoning the demon, upbraided it for keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the sense. ** I will not believe," he cried, " that thou canst perform half the bargain, unless you instantly...

...disappointed, knew no bounds; he stamped on the earth, and summoning the demon, upbraided if. for keepmg the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the sense. " I will not believe," he cried, " that thou canst perform half the bargain, unless you instantly...

...thus disappointed, knew no bounds; he stamped on the earth, and summoning the demon, upbraided it for keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the sense. " I will not believe," he cried, " that thou canst perform half the bargain, unless you instantly...

...though he adds what would seem to make this interference of little, if any use ; looking very much like "keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope." It is in these words : "yet, in doing this, the right of permitting to you the enjoyment of a separate...

...two ways of which we had our choice : as to taking the first— that of a bit-by-bit reform — that of keeping " The word of promise to the ear* And breaking it to the hope "— .it<if ,aasoijO HI that of introducing a half measure as a step to future improvement, at a mure...

...acting as directors.' It would be allowing people to take advantage of their own wrong; it would be keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope, it would be contrary to all j ustice to strike them off the list, and in the highest degree subversive...

...effect. IV. One more instance of the legal juggling played off upon the slaves — of the villanous " keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope," — and we have done with this part of our subject : Robert Aird died in 1819, leaving fourteen slaves...

...thraldom of vassalage to the tariff monopolists. Those who offer that alternative, know that it is but keeping the "word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope;" they know that it cafmot be embraced without ruinous sacrifice. They know that it would involve a sacrifice...