...negotiator: paltry, low; tricky; sordid; mean. Be these juggling fiends no more believed, That pottt with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. Shakspearr. Macbeth. Then turn your forces from this paltry siege,...

...tells me so , For it bath cow'd my better part of man : And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. — I'll not 6ght with tbee. MACDDFF. Then yield thee, coward, And...

...JAUKS BALLANTYNE — (to BANDY, SQUINTUil, and PECH.) ." And be those juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense, That keep the, word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope." SHEPHERD. The verra bit weans that used to ride on his back, wi'...

...tells me so, For it hath cow'd my better part of man ! And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. — I'll not fight with thee. Macd, Then yield thee, coward, And...

...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...

...(to BANDV, SQUINTL'.M, and PECH.^ " And be those juggling fiends no more believed, That palter witli us in a double sense, That keep the word of promise to our car, And break it to our hope." SHEPHERD. The verra bit weans that used to ride on his back, wi'...

...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...