 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1832 - 824 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | David Thom - 1833 - 462 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1835 - 494 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1835 - 800 Seiten
...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 the hope." Besides, it opened our ports to British vessels several months before our vessels could participate... | |
 | George Canning - 1835 - 650 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1835 - 804 Seiten
...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 the hope." Besides, it opened our ports to British vessels several months before our vessels could participate... | |
 | William Jackson,1835 - 1835 - 814 Seiten
...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 the hope." Besides, it opened our ports to British vessels several months before our vessels could participate... | |
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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. 
