 | 1878 - 410 pages
...all 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...short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same in the Chancellor's conscience." Of course it was a necessary and inevitable corollary of such views... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - Quotations, English - 1878 - 360 pages
...all 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...short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same in the Chancellor's conscience. — SELDEN, Table Talk. Equivocation — How absolute the knave is... | |
 | James Paterson - Law - 1882 - 546 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 in the Chancellor's conscience." — Seld. Table Talk. ST. SWITHIN AS LORD CHANCELLOR.... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - Economics - 1883 - 1076 pages
...all 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 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... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a Foot a Chancellpr's Foot ; what an uncertain measure would this be ? One Chancellor...another a short Foot, a third an indifferent Foot. 'T is the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience. Table Talk. Equity. Old friends are best. King... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - Economics - 1883 - 1076 pages
...all 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 has a long foot, another a short foot, n third an indifferent foot: it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience."—This uncertainty... | |
 | Sidney James Mark Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling - Great Britain - 1884 - 1136 pages
....... 'Tis all one as if we should make the standard for the measure of a foot the Chancellor's foot. One Chancellor has a long foot : another, a short foot ; a third, an indifferent foot." The Tudor Chancellors certainly seem to have deferred to the personal leanings of the sovereign. But... | |
 | Sir Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling - Great Britain - 1884 - 1254 pages
....... 'Tis all one as if wo should make the standard for the measure of a foot the Chancellor's foot. One Chancellor has a long foot ; another, a short foot ; a third, an indifferent foot." The Tudor Chanci-llors certainly seem to have deferred to the personal leaning« of the sovereign.... | |
 | Sir Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling - Great Britain - 1884 - 1150 pages
....... 'Tie all one as if we thould make the standard for the measure of » foot the Chancellor's foot. One Chancellor has a long foot ; another, a short foot ; a third, яп indifferent foot." The Tudor ChanOellors certainly seem to have deferred to the personal leanings... | |
 | 1888 - 234 pages
...equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure 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 a chancellor's conscience." 3 Bl. Com., 432 — note. Chandler vs. Bennett.... | |
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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... 
