 | Walter Scott - 1846 - 710 pages
...our wishes — fearful of raising expectations which we may be unable to gratify — desirous not " to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution.... | |
 | Valentine Mott - Europe - 1842 - 504 pages
...daily observance of those ennobling duties, which, when all worldly sources of consolation — that " keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope" — have deserted us forever, can alone extract the thorn from the couch of pain, disarm death of its... | |
 | George Canning - 1844 - 646 pages
...Colonial Legislatures act bona fide up to the spirit of, that order, with a manifest desire not merely "To keep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to the hope;" not by evasive or illusory enactments, — but with a full and fair intention to carry substantially... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 524 pages
...our wishes — fearful of raising expectations, which we may be unable to gratify — desirous not " to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution.... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1845 - 794 pages
...he would say at once that he would not observe the Treaty of Waitangi, than, with all this parade, to — " Keep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to the hope." He would venture to say that there never had been proposed so audacious a violation of the faith and... | |
 | Valentine Mott - Europe - 1845 - 470 pages
...daily observance of those ennobling duties, which, when all worldly sources of consolation — that " keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope" — have deserted us forever, can alone extract the thorn from the couch of pain, disarm death of its... | |
 | mrs. C D Burdett - 1846 - 910 pages
...of the curfew's rights than did the specious Mrs. Macauley ; but no one better knew than she did how to keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the sense. The floor of her back parlour, if not clean, was at least well sanded; an enormous turf fire... | |
 | Jonathan Blanchard, Nathan Lewis Rice - Slavery - 1846 - 534 pages
...is right, why couple it with a condition which destroys its value ? Why, like Macbeth's witches ; " Keep the word of promise to the ear, " And break it to the heart : — " Why abuse men by giving them a right in theory, which you deny them in practice ? Why... | |
 | Jonathan Blanchard - Slavery - 1846 - 526 pages
...is right, why couple it with a condition which destroys its value ? Why, like Macbeth's witches ; " Keep the word of promise to the ear, " And break it to the heart:—" Why abuse men by giving them a right in theory, which you deny them in practice ? Why insult... | |
 | 608 pages
...into immediate effect one of these colonization railways, would, on the part of Earl Grey, be indeed to "keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope." IL— Evidence of JR Godlfy, Esq. 1. John Robert (ïodley, Esq., is the son of я landed proprietor... | |
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... keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution. 
