| Edmund Burke - 1869 - 652 Seiten
...naturalization." Mr. Pile (Republican), of Missouri, expressed his fear that the Bill was simply to keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope ; and that it would leave four-fifths of their naturalized citizens from Prussia subject to arrest... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1940 - 894 Seiten
...the taxpayer's expenditure may be treated as a capital expenditure is, in my judgment, to keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope. In my view the carrying charge of the taxpayer's loan was either an ordinary expense of his business... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1809 - 406 Seiten
...which I will confide, and, in future, not suffer appearances to alarm me. A mother would not keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope." Mrs. Beaumont, feeling herself change countenance, made an attempt to blow her nose, and succeeded... | |
| 1852 - 862 Seiten
...which should tamper with the anxieties and expectations of mankind — which should, eg : — ' Keep a word of promise to the ear And break it to the hope :" which should apparently guide an earnest inquirer in one direction, when his true course would be... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 626 Seiten
...what he may think public opinion, by attempting to ' palter with us in a double sense , To keep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to the hope.' — Such an attempt, such an unworthy attempt, we must venture to call it, will fail with both sides,... | |
| New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1921 - 664 Seiten
...; otherwise the provision in the act providing for a remonstrance would operate simply to "keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope." The ordinance was thus passed without a hearing, and this writ is invoked by an affected property owner... | |
| 1855 - 782 Seiten
...same art which is so wonderfully employed in Macbeth in the prophecies of the witches—" To keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope." True to her words come all the prophecies of the Vala, Hilda, but in so different a sense from her... | |
| William Alexander Duer - 1819 - 212 Seiten
...whether you consider your plighted honour saved by your explanation. Are you content to " Keep the word of promise to the ear " And break it to the hope ?''——— Where, Sir, " is the irrefragable proof produced '• by Mr. Fulton," to redeem your pledge... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1822 - 452 Seiten
...told her a thousand times, no force shall be put upon her inclinations." mother would not keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope." Mrs. Beaumont, feeling herself change countenance, made an attempt to blow her nose, and succeeded... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 330 Seiten
...which I will confide, and, in future, not suffer appearances to alarm me. A mother would not keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope." Mrs. Beaumont, feeling herself change countenance, made an attempt to blow her nose, and succeeded... | |
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