...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...