And the God was pleased with them and raising them to the rank of Brahmans, divided them into fourteen "Gotras," and made them a solemn promise that should they ever call him to mind in any real emergency he would come to their assistance.

Their great leader, Rolf, accepted the territory with some vague and ill-kept promise of vassalage to the French King, and with a very firmly held determination that he would let no pirates ravage his land or cross it to reach others.

Go now, my dear, while I have strength to let you go, and ... make me one little promise..." "Whatever you ask, Athenais...." "Never come back, unless you need me; for I shall not have so much strength another time.

The possibilities of control loom as one of the most magnificent promises of science.

"In reading, when one's heart leaps at some precious promise made to the children of God, a cold check comes, 'Am I one of them?

" It was a definite promise, and Avery felt relieved.

He was also happy in the brilliant promises of his sons, one of whom became governor-general of India, and was created a peer for his services.

More deeply than ever did he now regret that he was deprived of all access to the Word of Life, from which he might have read and translated the story of mercy to his young disciple, and have taught her the gracious promises of God.

I am mad, stark mad, by Jupiter, at the thoughts of this!Unprovided, destitute, unacquaintedsome villain, worse than myself, who adores her not as I adore her, may have seized her, and taken advantage of her distress!Let me perish, Belford, if a whole hecatomb of innocents, as the little plagues are called, shall atone for the broken promises and wicked artifices of this cruel creature!

As the Frenchmen, of whom Coleridge's friend made the prophetic guess at Rome, from the beard and horns of the Moses of Michael Angelo collected no inferences beyond that of a He Goat and a Cornuto; so from this subject, of mere mechanic promise, it would instinctively turn away, as from one incapable of investiture with any grandeur.

Sang how the flowers, feeling the first sweet promise of spring stirring within them, awoke; and lo!

"Tell him," said he, "that to secure this object, I will deliver to him one of my sons as a hostage, and a number of troops for his service, with the sacred promise never to depart from my engagements again.

Be judge, you maids Have trusted the false promises of men: Be judge, you wives, the which have been enforc'd From the white sheets you lov'd to them ye loathed:

On the afternoon of the same August 1st, he gave the French Ambassadorwho was anxiously pressing for a decisionreason to believe that he would be able to give a formal promise on the following day.

To the gay, the nervous, and the dissipated of all ranks and ages, it held out the most flattering promises.

By reason Abraham saw the foundation of his hopes utterly swept away; and yet his faith towers above reason, and he feels that the divine promises in some way will be fulfilled.

But whether young Faraday did or did not, at an early age, display any unusual promise of his life-work, all his biographers appear to agree that he could not be regarded as a precocious child.

Moreover, in the preceding year, a British minister, says Professor Schiemann, had given what we may style a remarkable semi-official promise that Great Britain would never go to war with Germany.

Should its spirit remain fine and clear, should it maintain the glorious promise of its dawn, should its high priests realize the perpetually widening intimations of its universal triumph, and escape the ossification that has overtaken all young and hopeful things and institutions, the real foundation for a future of the species would be laid, and so its ultimate suicide prevented.

So, too, you must all remember some splendid unfulfilled promise of somebody or other, which fed you with hopes perhaps for years, and which left a blank in your life which nothing has ever filled up.

The Sultan indeed besought him with most liberal promises, through the means of certain Franciscan friars, to come and construct a bridge from Constantinople to Pera, and to execute other great works.

The other half had only a faint golden promise of mellow harvest; and at long distance it seemed to shimmer and retreat under the hot sun.

" When J.W. and Mr. Tanner parted for the night it was with the mutual promise that they would have another talk some time the next day, but the promise could not be kept.

The presentiment of danger which this passage describes was speedily fulfilled, as was also the hopeful promise by which it was accompanied.

Whatever may be their character, they are constitutionally, obligatory; and whoever feels that he cannot execute them, or swear to execute them, without committing sin, has no other choice left than to withdraw from the government, or to violate his conscience by taking on his lips an impious promise.