...one of the many instances in which that writer makes use of certain set phrases, in order to " keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope." The only rights for which he contends, are those of the Company to have a share of the advantages resulting...

...France, he could not suppose for one moment that it was the intention of the French Government to keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope. Moreover, he would remind the House that one clause in the Treaty afforded a very fair opportunity...

...boast of Christianity—the practice of Britons. " But if ever there was a measure tending ' to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope,' it is couched in the propositions of my hon. and learned friend (Sir John Nichols), which shut the...

...is another life in connexion with this, the means of attaining it must be within our reach. To keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope, is truly the character of the father of lies, not of the Father of mercies and GOD of all comfort and...

...the imaginative schemings of some, and the aversion to honest labour in others. They are a race who hold "the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hopes" — of thousands! Their flaring and intrusive signs and advertisements, which meet the eye at...

...grounds or what principle the alteration was proposed, for, if carried, it would indeed be " to keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the sense." But the noble Duke had referred to the charter of Charles '2nd, and had said that the right...

...tranquillized Europe. But to grant a national compact, for the purpose of its immediate violation, to " keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the sense," was at once to rekindle all the angry passions, and to put them into possession of the only...

...man. And be thosr.juKgling fiends believ'd no more, That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to the hope — I'll not survive it. [Exit Judas, like his namesake of old, to suspend himself, instead of the...

...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 least...

...tell her? that her legacy was more than all the rest put together ; just to keep her quiet, to keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope ; and now Dr. Turnbull comes forward to avow that he had prevaricated with her, poor girl ! to lead...