 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1858 - 868 pages
...judgments. Such legislation would have been a breach of the treaty. It would have been, in effect, to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope. It might have been a literal compliance with the treaty, but it clearly would have been a substantial... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 1096 pages
...judgments. Such legislation would have been a breach of the treaty. It would have been, in effect, to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope. It might have been a literal compliance witli the treaty, but it clearly would have been a substantial... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1858 - 312 pages
...It had been better to have remained for ever single, rather than have thus acted ; it was, indeed, ' to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the heart.' This idea seems quite to have changed my nature, turned my best feelings into gall." Silence... | |
 | Indiana. Appellate Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 854 pages
...if an advantage may thereby be derived, to Indiana Rolling-Mill Co. r. Livezey — 47 Ind. App. 390. keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope." So in the case at bar, when appellant received the answer of appellee as to order No. 6,504, dated... | |
 | Virginia Judith Craig - Epigrams, Latin - 1912 - 64 pages
...justified only on the principle that the worst puns are the best.1 But such instances of puns which "keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the sense" are indeed rare. The word play usually serves to enforce the sense. How much it adds to the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1913 - 762 pages
...which sum up the highest obligations for political as well as social conduct resting on all of us — keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope. Mr. PALMER. Mr. Auerbach, I am interested in the foreign-trust proposition. It has been represented... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Tariff - 1913 - 990 pages
...which sum up the highest obligations for political as well as social conduct resting on all of us — keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope. Mr. PALMER. Mr. Auerbach, I am interested hi the foreign-trust proposition. It has been represented... | |
 | Simon Augustine Blackmore - 1914 - 434 pages
...the visible forms of the Weird Sisters. In both, tlii- 1) ing tempter gives delusive assurances that "keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hop<;"; in the one, "Ye shall not surely die," and in the other "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth."... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1192 pages
...safe under lock and key so that he cannot appear. To say that this is due process of law is indeed to "keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope." In Chapel v. Child, 2 Or. & Jor. R. 558, Baron Parke said, that "No judicial proceeding could deprive... | |
 | Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield - Mental healing - 1918 - 390 pages
...meanings. Really, that is one of the tricks of the trade. You know, Sibyls have always been thus oracular, to 'keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope.' " Allow this theory, however, the fullest application, and the book nevertheless remains hopelessly... | |
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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. 
