...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...

...hereafter, the number of children would by no means be diminished,) it would, were it listened to, only " keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the sense." Or if so far imposed as to be operative, like all other forced and unnatural remedies, it would...

...what 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...

...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...

...soon in 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...

...Turnbull 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...

...of 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...

...a 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,...

...another species of property for that liable to be so affected." Ireland met this juggling attempt to " keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope," as became her. Mr. J. Grattan met the first announcement of the Government scheme in Parliament, with...

...wishes I — fearful of raising expectations, which we may be unable to gratify — desirous not " to 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....