 | John Galt - 1831 - 324 halaman
...soon in possession of forty, and some of them almost new, and very rich, for the Glasgow people do not keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope; on the contrary, her performance •was a great night in the royal city . The provost's wife, or at... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1832 - 470 halaman
...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.... | |
 | 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 halaman
...for 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 halaman
...substitute 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... | |
 | David Thom - 1833 - 462 halaman
...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... | |
 | William Jackson,1835 - 1835 - 814 halaman
...often confided to his predecessors, and by them never exercised to the detriment of American interests. keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it...to be granted or denied at the pleasure of England. Finding that the opening of this trade was sought, and even solicited, with an earnestness altogether... | |
 | George Canning - 1835 - 650 halaman
...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... | |
 | David Meredith Reese - 1835 - 144 halaman
...by removing those whose consent you have obtained by such unjustifiable means." Truly this would be to " Keep the word of promise to the ear And break it to the hope." Pray what would be the effect on the victims of these " barbarities," if the Colonization Society were... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1835 - 494 halaman
...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... | |
 | William Jay - 1835 - 218 halaman
...those whose consent you have obtained by such unjustifiable means ; we will not, to please you, " KSep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to the hope." But alas, it has virtually given official notice that it will transport all whose consent can be obtained,... | |
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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. 
