 | 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 - 618 sivua
...a moment 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,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1832 - 824 sivua
...another species of property for that liable to be so affected." Ireland met this juggling attempt to " keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope," as became her. Mr. J. Grattan met the first announcement of the Government scheme in Parliament, with... | |
 | 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 - 614 sivua
...a moment 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 mnst venture to call it, will fail with both sides,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1832 - 470 sivua
...wishes I — 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.... | |
 | David Thom - 1833 - 462 sivua
...be rescued from deaths bondage. And, as God cannot " palter with us in a double sense;" as He cannot keep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to the hope; He cannot mean to intimate to us, that his saving the world, is merely, as the orthodox maintain, his... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1835 - 800 sivua
...other, the understanding was yet to be executed, and could be so varied by an order in council, "as to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it...to be granted or denied at the pleasure of England. The disadvantageous position in which the United States was placed by this indiscreet eagerness of... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1835 - 810 sivua
...other, the understanding was yet to be executed, and could be so varied by an order in council, " as to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it...to be granted or denied at the pleasure of England. The disadvantageous position in which the United States was placed by this indiscreet eagerness of... | |
 | 1835 - 804 sivua
...other, the understanding was yet to bo executed, and could be so varied by an order in council, " as to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it...to be granted or denied at the pleasure of England. The disadvantageous position in which the United States was placed by this indiscreet eagerness of... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1835 - 494 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... | |
 | George Canning - 1835 - 650 sivua
...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... | |
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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. 
