 | Henry Wyles Cushman - 1855 - 810 páginas
...requires all to be given and yields nothing in return but empty and barren professions, that ' keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope.' « * * ' * • • " To say that he was free from selfishness, would be saying more than would be true... | |
 | James Maclehose - 1910 - 518 páginas
...fiddles to the women as usual." ' l It was as well known to the Stuarts as to the Tudors how to make the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope. However England might boast of its struggles for free discussion and control of affairs by Parliament,... | |
 | Christopher Orlando Sylvester Mawson - 1911 - 710 páginas
...victimize; abuse; mystify; Mind -one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes, " keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope " [Macbeth]. impose -, practice -, play -, put -, palm -, foist- upon ; snatch a verdict ; bluff, off;... | |
 | Indiana. Appellate Court - 1912 - 854 páginas
...advantage may thereby be derived, to Indiana Rolling-Mill Co. r. Livezey — 47 Ind. App. 390. keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope." So in the case at bar, when appellant received the answer of appellee as to order No. 6,504, dated... | |
 | 1912 - 542 páginas
...their degradation, than that they should be deluded by an empty, formal equality which would "Keep the word of promise to the ear And break it to the hope.' "" The men who applied the Declaration of Independence to the negroes were merely declaiming, and did... | |
 | Virginia Judith Craig - 1912 - 64 páginas
...justified only on the principle that the worst puns are the best.1 But such instances of puns which "keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the sense" are indeed rare. The word play usually serves to enforce the sense. How much it adds to the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1913 - 990 páginas
...sum up the highest obligations for political as well as social conduct resting on all of us — keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope. Mr. PALMER. Mr. Auerbach, I am interested hi the foreign-trust proposition. It has been represented... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1913 - 762 páginas
...sum up the highest obligations for political as well as social conduct resting on all of us — keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope. Mr. PALMER. Mr. Auerbach, I am interested in the foreign-trust proposition. It has been represented... | |
 | Simon Augustine Blackmore - 1914 - 434 páginas
...visible forms of the Weird Sisters. In both, tlii- 1) ing tempter gives delusive assurances that "keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hop<;"; in the one, "Ye shall not surely die," and in the other "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth."... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1915 - 1192 páginas
...under lock and key so that he cannot appear. To say that this is due process of law is indeed to "keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope." In Chapel v. Child, 2 Or. & Jor. R. 558, Baron Parke said, that "No judicial proceeding could deprive... | |
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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. 
