 | 1920 - 496 páginas
...they should make the standard of the measure we call a foot ; what an uncertain measure this would be. One chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot; it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience."8 One of the early resolves of the Little Parliament,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 páginas
...make the standard for the measure we call a foot a Chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain measure would this be ? One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. T is the same in the Chancellor's conscience. Table Talk. Equity. Old friends are best. King James... | |
 | Christopher Cavanagh - 1875 - 240 páginas
...creed. It was said by Selden the chancery conscience varies with the size of the chancellor's foot. " One chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same in the chancellor's conscience" (Table Talk). Well that was bad enough ; but it is ten... | |
 | 1877 - 362 páginas
...make the standard for the measure wo call a foot a Chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain meusure would this be ! One Chancellor has a long foot, another...short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tie the same in the Chancellor's conscience. — SEL DKN, Tahle Tall.-. Equivocation. — How absolute the knave... | |
 | sir John Bowring - 1877 - 594 páginas
...they should make the standard for the measure a Chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain measure would this be ! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, the third an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the Chancellor's conscience." * The next step... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 páginas
...make the standard for the measure we call a foot a Chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain measure would this be ! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same in the Chancellor's conscience. — SELDEN, Table Talk. Equivocation — How absolute... | |
 | 1878 - 410 páginas
...make the standard for the measure we call a foot a Chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain measure would this be? One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same in the Chancellor's conscience." Of course it was a necessary and inevitable corollary... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1878 - 402 páginas
...make the standard for the measure we call a foot a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be? One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. "Tis the same in the Chancellor's conscience." Of course it was a necessary and inevitable corollary... | |
 | James Paterson - 1882 - 546 páginas
...the standard for the measure we call a foot, ' a Chancellor's foot.' What an uncertain measure would this be ! One Chancellor has a long foot; another a short foot ; a third, an indifferent foot. It is the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience." — Seld. Table Talk. ST. SWITHIN AS LORD CHANCELLOR.... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - 1883 - 1076 páginas
...make the standard for the measure we call a foot a chancellor's foot, what an uncertain measure would this be! One chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, :t third an indifferent foot, it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience." — This uncertainty... | |
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... know what to trust to; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a Chancellor's foot; what an... 
