 | Chemistry - 1774 - 628 pages
...of a potash salt," an imputation on our accuracy — " That palters with us in a double sense, That keeps the word of promise to our ear, And breaks it to our hope." This "one experiment undertaken to test the process" — or rather they, for two are quoted by us,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1832 - 496 pages
...advocate, therefore, resists such attempts, which, instead of meeting, perpetuate the evil, which " Keeps the word of promise to our ear, And breaks it to our hope." 6. He assists in the improvement of the law. — While he dwells in doubt, and is in a straight between... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 400 pages
...advocate, therefore, resists such attempts, which, instead of meeting, perpetuate the evil, which " Keeps the word of promise to our ear, And breaks it to our hope." 6. He assists in the improvement of the law. — While he is in doubt, he endeavours to improve himself;... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Economics - 1851 - 492 pages
...greatest happiness to the greatest number," as the object towards which we should steer, our pilot " keeps the word of promise to our ear and breaks it to our hope." What he shows us through his telescope is a fata morgana, and not the promised land. The real haven... | |
 | George Luxford, Edward Newman - Botany - 1851 - 434 pages
...its magical influence. Change this seductive title, that " palters with us in a double sense ; That keeps the word of promise to our ear, And breaks it to our hope," to some other more consonant to truth, and then try the value of a name; the embryological system would... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - English periodicals - 1853 - 564 pages
...violation of it, And be this juggling fiend no more believ'd, That patters with us in a double sense ; That keeps the word of promise to our ear, And breaks it to our hope. But, bless me ! the iron tongue of mid-day hath tolled twelve. How am I squandering the sole portion... | |
 | 1858 - 24 pages
...progress — not of that spurious party juggling — " That palters with us in a double sense ; That keeps the word of promise to our ear, And breaks it to our hope." In short, lead public opinion, instead of being led too much by it. Your individual intelligence gave... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1859 - 670 pages
...throne of France and rules the destinies of Italy be not one of whom it may absolutely be said that he " keeps the word of promise to our ear and breaks it to our hope," it cannot be denied that he has always in store a series of the most startling surprises. To attempt,... | |
 | Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown - Lawyers - 1862 - 540 pages
...creed is revolutionary and dangerous, or whether it merely " Palters with us in a double sense ; That keeps the word of promise to our ear, And breaks it to our hope." Holding then, Fellow-citizens, the clear and settled conviction that this combination of Northern States... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Economics - 1868 - 544 pages
...greatest happiness to the greatest number," as the object toward which we should steer, our pilot " keeps the word of promise to our ear and breaks it to our hope." What he shows us through his telescope is a fata morgana, and not the promised land. The real haven... | |
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... keeps the word of promise to our ear and breaks it to our hope. 
