 | 1813 - Počet stránok 596
...because he has deluded the public by his title page, to enhance the sale of his work. He has indeed " kept the .word of promise to, the ear, but broke it to the hope." This is the common practice of those who write against Christianity; on assertion and assumption all... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1824 - Počet stránok 830
...of the country. But, as long as the present system of government was pursued — a system which gave the word of promise to the ear, but broke it to the hopes, of the people of Ireland, no real permanent advantage to the country could be expected. He was... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1826 - Počet stránok 416
...that, St. Clair from proud Roslin, No mortal shall sever ; For St. Clair with Roslin Shall flourish for ever ! The seer's prediction to Breadalbane himself,...blockhead !' said Breadalbane, on recalling this memorable prediction, — he did me untold-of mischief, — that silly carle ! — For, when I was ready to despair,... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1852 - Počet stránok 710
...of Lawrence, the judgment was set aside for defective affidavit. Ch. Just. Ewing said the affidavit kept the word of promise to the ear, but broke it to the hope. In Hoyt v. Hoyt, 1 Harr. Rep. 139, decided in 1837, it appeared that a pact of the consideration was... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1830 - Počet stránok 806
...was in favour of some additional duty on woollens, but he thought this bill did not give relief. It kept the word of promise to the ear, but broke it to the sense. The increased duties on iron, canvass, hemp, and flax, were prejudicial to the navigating interest,... | |
 | Počet stránok 822
...held out, at the advent of the season, in the programme ; but the lessee, like the hags in Macbeth, kept the " word of promise to the ear, but broke it to the hope." The latest failures have been the opera of " Stradella," and the engagement of, according to Mr. Dunn's... | |
 | Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen - 1833 - Počet stránok 632
...nugatory, to any useful result, by the secret treachery of Lord Bute, who, with great dissimulation, " Had kept the word of promise to the ear, But broke it to the hope." It appears, from the private correspondence of the Due de Nivernois, that all the main points of the... | |
 | Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen - 1833 - Počet stránok 634
...nugatory, to any useful result, by the secret treachery of Lord Bute, who, with great dissimulation, " Had kept the word of promise to the ear, But broke it to the hope." It appears, from the private correspondence of the Duc de Nivernois, that all the main points of the... | |
 | John Scott Porter - 1834 - Počet stránok 216
...Trinitarian; and, like the persons of whom the poet speaks, " he paltered with us in a double sense." He kept the word of promise to the ear, But broke it to our hope ! For my own part, I should be ashamed of myself, and of the situation which I occupy in the... | |
 | John Scott Porter - 1834 - Počet stránok 220
...Trinitarian ; and, like the persons of whom the poet speaks, " he paltered with us in a double sense." He kept the word of promise to the ear, But broke it to our hope ! I shall now take notice of some remarks which Mr. Bagot has made upon my address of yesterday;... | |
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Kept the word of promise to the ear, But broke it to the hope. 
