 | Indiana. Appellate Court - 1912 - 854 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Virginia Judith Craig - 1912 - 64 σελίδες
...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 - 762 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1913 - 990 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Simon Augustine Blackmore - 1914 - 434 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield - 1918 - 390 σελίδες
...Really, that is one of the tricks of the trade. You know, Sibyls have always been thus oracular, to 'keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope.' " Allow this theory, however, the fullest application, and the book nevertheless remains hopelessly... | |
 | 1919 - 1020 σελίδες
...appreciate what Shakespeare meant when he spoke of those "That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to the ear And break it to the hope." The right of homestead exemption Is based upon public policy. The right Is limited to those who sustain... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1919 - 752 σελίδες
...lawful when made, there can be no recovery on account of it. To sustain such a defense would be to 'keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope.'" The Government opposes the contentions. The Act of March 12, 1863, 12 Stat. 820, is entitled "An act to... | |
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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. 
