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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. "
The Christian lady's magazine, ed. by Charlotte Elizabeth - Sivu 350
muokkaaja - 1840
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Annual Register, Nide 110

Edmund Burke - 1869 - 652 sivua
...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 Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Nide 308

United States. Supreme Court - 1940 - 894 sivua
...perchance 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...

The Speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt, in the House of ..., Nide 1

William Pitt, W. S. Hathaway - 1808 - 496 sivua
....never be of long coiitinua nee— they carried in them their very principles of division, " They bold the word of promise to the ear, and, break it to the sense." He concluded with apologizing to the house for delaying them so long : thus much, however,...

Tales of Fashionable Life, Nide 3

Maria Edgeworth - 1809 - 406 sivua
...declaration, in 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...

The baptist Magazine

1852 - 862 sivua
...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...

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court And, at ..., Nide 94

New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1921 - 664 sivua
...objectors ; 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...

Blackwood's Magazine, Nide 77

1855 - 782 sivua
...of the 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...

Blackwood's Magazine, Nide 64

1848 - 788 sivua
...man " have played the part here of juggling fiends, — " They palter with us in a double sense, They keep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to our hope." For lend ns your ear for a few minutes. The word " remain " is originally and essentially...

The speeches of ... William Pitt in the House of commons [ed. by W.S. Hathaway].

William Pitt - 1806 - 488 sivua
...never be of long continuance — they carried in them their very principles of division, " They hold the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the sense." He concluded with apologizing to the house for delaying them so long : thus much, however,...

The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to ..., Nide 33

Great Britain. Parliament - 1818 - 810 sivua
...the right hon. gentleman, they would frustrate what they professed to have in view— they would " keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the sense." The whole measure was intended merely to give time for the public resources to act, and, in...




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