 | Edmund Burke - 1869 - 652 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | William Pitt, W. S. Hathaway - 1808 - 496 pages
....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...necessary to say -in support of the balance of the constitutes!, the prerogatives of the king, and the privileges Q( parliament. Tl;o question for the... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1809 - 406 pages
...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 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 pages
...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... | |
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1921 - 664 pages
...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... | |
 | 1829 - 1008 pages
...Now, we are disposed to believe that those by whom that provision was made, did not mean " to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope ;" they intended, we must suppose, to carry it fully and fairly into effect, and to sec that Ireland... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1818 - 810 pages
...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 the mean... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - 1819 - 212 pages
...gentleman, 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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Charles Morgan - 1822 - 408 pages
...to justice or to humanity. In the best times, the whole effort of international policy is " to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the sense." Treaties, destined it is said to last for ever, are stipulatedin the name of the Holy and undivided... | |
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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. 
