...the barbarism of slavery, being in a deplorable condition since their emancipation, which had been "keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the heart." He pointed out that, in many cases, the highest wages paid a man were "eight dollars a month,...

...service* of a court reporter but denying a. copy of the transcript seems like another "instance of keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hopo." United States v. Nuoent. 346 US- 1, 10, 13 (1953) (Frankfurter, J. , dissenting) . CONCLUSION...

...Lincoln; it was not so meant by the Republican party; but whether so meant or not, it is partially a lie, keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the heart. Do you ask me why the Negro of the plantation has made so little progress, why his cupboard...

...to do so — Still, though there are those, and intimates too, who take on themselves to accuse me 'keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope,':! like certain not very respectable persons, as if I used language which said only what / meant, but...

...it was not so meant by the Republican Party; but whether so meant or not, it is practically a lie, keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the heart." 209 Douglass's severe assessment of the condition of black people in the late nineteenth century...

..." the Noble Sanctuary and the various Moslem and Christian shrines." This characteristic document, keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope, was fatal to complete success, and might have wrecked the whole undertaking, Lad not Captain Warren ingeniously...

...and tell them why and wherefore congress cannot interfere with the question. What is this, sir, but keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope? And how long is this state of things to continue? Did Mr. Pinckncy's report do what it was said it...

...State power of overcoming the fine-sounding words of sec. 92. Never was there a clearer instance of keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope. In the Meat Supply Act there is a specific provision, sec. 12, which, as a precedent, may be copied...

...all these people in a status whereby their citizenship might be revoked at any time would surely be keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope. This court cannot give its assent to any such interpretation of the law, except in obedience to the...

...other hand, we are permitted to have denominational teaching, taught out of the Bible, shall we not be keeping the word ' of 'promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope. To avoid, therefore, all doubt upon the matter, I hope that rate-aided Schools will be avoided as much...