Crossword-Solution: PROMISERS 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

There is no certainty as to how deep any teaching may have gone--as to whether it has reached the issues of life or not, until a youth is left by himself, and has to choose and refuse companions: the most promising youths are often but promisers.

The instinctive and immemorial craving of all men for a father manifests itself--in republics that have forgotten God--in the election of the great promisers and the great confiscators to the supreme power.

But if ye winna grant me that wee wee while, when the bread of a haill family depends on it, ye're waur than ony deil that's yammering and cursing i' the bottomless pit." "Keep your ravings to yoursell, Mrs Irvine, for I hae made up my mind what I'm to do; and I'll do it; sae it's needless for ye to pit yoursell into a bleeze; for the surest promisers are aye the slackest payers.

The promise exchanged between the contracting parties is of far too sweeping a character, and is immoral, because promising what may be beyond the powers of the promisers to perform; "to love" "so long as ye both shall live," and "till death us do part," is a pledge far too wide; love does not stay by promising, nor is love a feeling which can be made to order.

Best and I found, sadly too late, that the members of the College museum were splendid promisers and very bad paymasters.