...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...representation in one branch of the Legislature, which by itself can do nothing, anything more than a shadow? Is it not emphatically keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope ? Is it not even less than the virtual representation with which our fathers were attempted to be appeased...

...to send out a special agent to inquire into the facts and decide what to do. All this is a method of keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope. Bank bills are paid in the poorest money current. It is easy to see that if any pressing demand existed...

...sun, and wish the estate of the world undone ! they curse the juggling fiends that can lie like truth, keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope. As a climax, the Chorus break into two bands : one semichorus would fain seek out some desolate shade...