 | James Dennistoun - 1851 - 530 páginas
...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 defiance,... | |
 | James Dennistoun - 1851 - 522 páginas
...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 defiance,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1851 - 478 páginas
...wishes —fearful of raising expectations, which we may be mable 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... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention - 1851 - 810 páginas
...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,... | |
 | James Pagan - 1851 - 530 páginas
...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... | |
 | E. J. Burbury - 1851 - 328 páginas
...will." steps, and walk out into the grounds : " surely she means well now ? " " She means ' to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope.' There is no truth in her. " But, come, let us go out : we promised to ride to-day to Morley... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1852 - 1246 páginas
...term 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... | |
 | United States. District Attorney (Pennsylvania : Eastern District) - 1852 - 208 páginas
...sleep in the statute book in lifeless inactivity, all was well with those who were willing " To keep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to the hope." But when the Act of 1850 imparted life to its torpid antecedent, by giving it a sanction by... | |
 | William Stevens - 1853 - 584 páginas
...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1853 - 578 páginas
...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... | |
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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. 
