| James Pagan - 1851 - 270 pages
...that the smoke nuisance was to be driven furth the city in no time. But the public men who said so " keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope." It has always happened that after the process has advanced a stage or two, it seems to get the "go-by."... | |
| James Dennistoun - Art, Renaissance - 1851 - 530 pages
...convulsive grief, he was assailed by persuasions from the legate and most of his officers and advisers — " To keep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to the sense." They urged upon him that, in dealing with an enemy who had again and again set good faith at... | |
| James Dennistoun - Art, Renaissance - 1851 - 522 pages
...convulsive grief, he was assailed by persuasions from the legate and most of his officers and advisers — " To keep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to the sense." They urged upon him that, in dealing with an enemy who had again and again set good faith at... | |
| Maryland. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1851 - 810 pages
...instance, it would be overthrown before it could be finally passed. By such я provision, they would "keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope." He would prefer to see a clause giving the Legislature power, whenever they thought proper, to create... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1852 - 1246 pages
...of instruction. It is eminently unworthy of the representatives of the Empire Str.te, thus So "hold the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope." Nearly two hundred and fifty thousand of the citizens and legal voters of the Slate, constituting a... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1853 - 578 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.... | |
| William Jay - Slavery - 1853 - 684 pages
...removing those whose consent you have obtained by such unjustifiable means ; we will not, to please you, ' Keep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to the hope.' " But alas, it has virtually given official notice that it will transport all whose consent can be... | |
| William Stevens - 1853 - 584 pages
...framed after a careful consideration of Johnson's definition, the supreme object of the writer being to " keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the sense." But we shall at once demolish such an apology for so extraordinary an evasion of a plainly-commanded... | |
| India - 1853 - 536 pages
...extravagant outlay, and while we do not say of all the Offices in this country that they . . . . " keep the word of promise to the ear And break it to the hope," we repeat that what is generally wanted by those who effect insurance is the absolute guarantee that... | |
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