 | 1877 - 362 стор.
...should 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 a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tie the same in the Chancellor's conscience. — SEL DKN, Tahle Tall.-. Equivocation. — How absolute... | |
 | sir John Bowring - 1877 - 594 стор.
...Equity. 'Tis all one as if 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... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1878 - 402 стор.
...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... | |
 | 1878 - 410 стор.
...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 - 1878 - 360 стор.
...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 - 1882 - 546 стор.
...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 - 1883 - 1076 стор.
...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 стор.
...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 - 1883 - 1076 стор.
...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... | |
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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... 
