The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon: With Selections from His Correspondence, Volume 2

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J. Murray, 1846 - 869 pages
 

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Page 477 - 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 measure we call a foot...
Page 388 - For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption : But he whom God raised again saw no corruption.
Page 388 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 522 - I do solemnly swear, that I never will exercise any privilege to which I am or may become entitled, to disturb or weaken the Protestant religion, or Protestant Government, in the United Kingdom...
Page 484 - I apprehend that it is the duty of every Judge, presiding in an English Court of Justice, when he is told that there is no difference between worshipping the Supreme Being in chapel, church, or synagogue, to recollect that Christianity is part of the law of England...
Page 477 - It is 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, a third an indifferent foot: it is the same thing in the chancellor's conscience.
Page 477 - 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 measure, we call a chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be!
Page 234 - Majesty, and he had so far assented. "This led to his mentioning again what he had to say as to his assent. In the former interview it had been represented that, after much conversation twice with his Ministers or such as had come down, he had said, ' Go on;' and upon the latter of those two occasions, after many hours' fatigue, and exhausted by the fatigue of conversation, he had said,
Page 234 - Bill, adding certainly in each, as he read them, very strong expressions of the pain and misery the proceedings gave him. It struck me at the time, that I should, if I had been in office, have felt considerable difficulty about going on after reading such expressions ; but whatever might be fair observation as to giving, or not, effect to those expressions, / told...
Page 76 - ... turning out one man, and introducing another in the way all this is done, is telling the chancellor that he should not give them the trouble of disposing of him, but should — not treated as a chancellor — cease to be a chancellor.

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