 | John Borden - 1889 - 56 pàgines
...days to send out a special agent to inquire into the facts and decide what to do. All this is a method of keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope. Bank bills are paid in the poorest money current. It is easy to see that if any pressing demand existed... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1889 - 274 pàgines
...the Legislature, which by itself can do nothing, anything more than a shadow? Is it not emphatically keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope ? Is it not even less than the virtual representation with which our fathers were attempted to be appeased... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1890 - 514 pàgines
...sun, and wish the estate of the world undone ! they curse the juggling fiends that can lie like truth, keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope. As a climax, the Chorus break into two bands : one semichorus would fain seek out some desolate shade... | |
 | Albert Von Haller Carpenter - 1890 - 184 pàgines
...being a good deal like those of the witches which Macbeth accused of paltering in a double sense, " Keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope." After skirmishing over the field, and ascertaining the position of my competitors and what commissions... | |
 | Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - 1890 - 704 pàgines
...intermediate rise in value of the property, is a legal "juggle," that may fitly be characterized as keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope. Since writing the above, I have been fortunate enough to come across Powett v. Manuf. Co. 3 Mason,... | |
 | Frederic May Holland - 1891 - 436 pàgines
...so meant or not, I contend that this so-called emancipation is practically a lie of the worst kind, keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the heart. Do you ask a more particular answer to the question, why the negro of the plantation has made... | |
 | Alfred Farthing Robbins - 1894 - 492 pàgines
...an acquired power. But in each case there is a fairer explanation than that of intention to deceive, of keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope. The wish to make a point absolutely clear involves a danger of so marring the outlines as to puzzle... | |
 | 1895 - 1322 pàgines
...bringing in bills, confessing at the same time that it is totally impossible to pass them 1 That is keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope. Besides that, the whole assumption is nonsense. Ministers must know very well that if the Government... | |
 | Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration - 1895 - 360 pàgines
...were written, that we do not ask for any such thiug as that, and that they would be but a mockery — keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the heart. They say in language and in one of these Regulations — at least, Sir Richard Webster says... | |
 | Anna Caroline Steele - 1896 - 398 pàgines
...when Kenneth rose to leave the room. " It's no good forgiving me if you are going on like this; it's keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to — to — I forget what, I never can remember more than half a quotation ; but it means me, anyhow."... | |
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