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" ... Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a measure, 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... "
Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 484
by George Burnett - 1807
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The Monthly Review

1843 - 574 pages
...one," says Selden, " as if they should make the standard for the measure, the Chancellor's foot." " One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the Chancellor's conscience." Where would such a man as Wolsey stop when...
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Christian Pamphlets, Volume 13

1844 - 888 pages
...one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain measure would this be ! One chancellor...another a short foot ; a third an indifferent foot; it is the same thing with a chancellor's conscience." "The discretion of a Judge," said Lord Camden,...
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The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon: With ..., Volume 3

Horace Twiss - 1844 - 538 pages
...as if they should make the standard for the measure we " ' call a foot, a Chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain measure " ' would this be ! One Chancellor...another " ' a short foot, a third an indifferent foot : it is the same " ' thing in the Chancellor's conscience.' " From these intimations, it might be inferred...
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The Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 6

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 544 pages
...should make the standard for the measure the chancellor's 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 with the chancellor's conscience." despaired. Cavilling objectors have found much...
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The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon: With ..., Volume 2

Horace Twiss - 1844 - 452 pages
...all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a fool, a chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be! One chancellor has a long foot, another a short fool, a third an indifferent foot: it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience." From these...
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The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon: With ..., Volume 3

Horace Twiss - 1844 - 544 pages
...the measure we " ' call a foot, a Chancellor's foot ; what an uncertain measure " ' would this be I 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.' " From these intimations, it might be inferred...
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - 684 pages
...prohibitions. as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot ' a chancellor's foot.' What an uncertain measure would this be? One chancellor...another, a short foot ; a third, an indifferent foot : it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience." — Table Talk. * " The discretion of a judge...
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A Popular and Practical Introduction to Law Studies: And to Every Department ...

Samuel Warren - 1845 - 1174 pages
...Equity. "Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure of the Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be ! One Chancellor...another a short foot : a third an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the Chancellor's conscience."— Tabk-Talk, Tit. '• Equity." been to make...
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1846 - 704 pages
...one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot , a chancellor,s foot., What an uncertain measure would this be? One chancellor...a long foot ; another, a short foot ; a third, an indillerent foot : it is the same thing in the chancellor,s conscience." — Table TWA. the answer...
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The dawn of modern civilization: or, Sketches of the social condition of ...

Europe - 1847 - 202 pages
...one, as if they should make the standard for the measure, or call a foot a chancellor's foot : what an uncertain measure would this be ! one chancellor...another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot ; it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience." But since the times to which Selden refers,...
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