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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. "
Manoeuvring, Madame de Fleury, and The Dun [from Tales of fashionable life]. - Страница 96
по Maria Edgeworth - 1856
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Sketches of the Philosophy of Morals

Sir Thomas Charles Morgan - 1822 - 412 страници
...regard to justice or to humanity. In the best times, the whole effort of international policy is " to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the sense." Treaties, destined it is said to last for ever, are stipulatedin the name of the Holy and undivided...

The Inquirer, Том 1

1822 - 764 страници
...Anecdotes of Humanity.' We shared the fate of those who are intent upon untried delicacies ; — ' they keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the bope' — chiefly, we suppose, because the ' hope' is screwed beyond the sticking-place. We scarcely...

College Recollections

Samuel O'Sullivan - 1825 - 300 страници
...affections; she availed herself frequently of those indeterminate words, — those ambiguous phrases which keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the heart. In fact, they had become letters just calculated to awaken the indignation of an impassioned...

Inquiries respecting the courts of commissioners of bankrupts, and Lord ...

Basil Montagu - 1825 - 136 страници
...legislative reform, tend to prolong, for it cannot perpetuate, theif continuance? Does it do more than " Keep the word of promise to the ear. And break it to our hope ?" I state the questions with the hope of rendering some assistance in their solution: but...

The Parliamentary Debates, Том 18

Great Britain. Parliament - 1828 - 838 страници
...of his majesty's ministers that it should be executed — fully executed. It was never intended " to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope." It was meant to be fulfilled, iu spirit, as well as to the letter. His understanding upon this subject...

The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of Criticism and ..., Том 6

1831 - 502 страници
...the Pavilion. If Mr Monck Mason, the new lessee of the Italian Opera House, do not, however, merely " keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope," we arc about to enter a new era of history in our musical taste ; and towards " a consummation so devoutly...

The Lion [ed. by R. Carlile]., Том 1

844 страници
...consistent and divine, even so should he speak of it. If we admit not the justice of this, we give the word of promise to the ear and break it to the sense. That which does not deserve ridicule and contempt, is invariably strengthened and advanced by...

Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable George Canning, Том 2

1829 - 476 страници
...charity—the 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...

Reflections on the Present State of British India ...

Gavin Young - 1829 - 242 страници
...but 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...

The works of ... John Stark Ravenscroft, D.D.

John Stark Ravenscroft (bp. of North Carolina.) - 1830 - 642 страници
...there 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...




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