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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. "
Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania: Being a Collection of Memoirs ... - Page 241
by John Fanning Watson - 1855
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Annual Register, Volume 110

Edmund Burke - History - 1869 - 652 pages
...naturalization." Mr. Pile (Republican), of Missouri, expressed his fear that the Bill was simply to keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope ; and that it would leave four-fifths of their naturalized citizens from Prussia subject to arrest...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 308

United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1940 - 894 pages
...perchance the taxpayer's expenditure may be treated as a capital expenditure is, in my judgment, to keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope. In my view the carrying charge of the taxpayer's loan was either an ordinary expense of his business...
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The Speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt, in the House of ..., Volume 1

William Pitt, W. S. Hathaway - Great Britain - 1808 - 496 pages
....never be of long coiitinua nee— they carried in them their very principles of division, " They bold the word of promise to the ear, and, break it to the sense." He concluded with apologizing to the house for delaying them so long : thus much, however,...
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Tales of Fashionable Life, Volume 3

Maria Edgeworth - 1809 - 406 pages
...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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 47

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 626 pages
...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,...
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The baptist Magazine

1852 - 862 pages
...which should tamper with the anxieties and expectations of mankind — which should, eg : — ' Keep a word of promise to the ear And break it to the hope :" which should apparently guide an earnest inquirer in one direction, when his true course would be...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court And ..., Volume 94

New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 664 pages
...objectors ; otherwise the provision in the act providing for a remonstrance would operate simply to "keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope." The ordinance was thus passed without a hearing, and this writ is invoked by an affected property owner...
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The speeches of ... William Pitt in the House of commons [ed. by W.S. Hathaway].

William Pitt - 1806 - 488 pages
...could never be of long continuance — they carried in them their very principles of division, " They hold the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the sense." He concluded with apologizing to the house for delaying them so long : thus much, however,...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 26

England - 1829 - 1008 pages
...Now, we are disposed to believe that those by whom that provision was made, did not mean " to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope ;" they intended, we must suppose, to carry it fully and fairly into effect, and to sec that Ireland...
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The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to ..., Volume 33

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1818 - 810 pages
...right hon. gentleman, they would frustrate what they professed to have in view— they would " keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the sense." The whole measure was intended merely to give time for the public resources to act, and, in...
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