The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon: With Selections from His Correspondence, Volume 3J. Murray, 1844 - 516 pages |
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Page 439 - 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 308 - 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 501 - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present Church Establishment; as settled by law within this realm ; and 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 308 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 439 - 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 439 - 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 85 - 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 his Majesty it was impossible to maintain that his assent had not been expressed, or to cure the evils which were consequential, — after...
Page 293 - I take blame to myself for having, as I fear, obtruded on you some important matters of consideration at a time when you were not prepared to admit them ; or in a manner which may have been deemed too earnest and importunate. That you pardon the intrusion, I have no doubt, and that you ascribe what may have been ill-timed, or ill-considered, to the true cause — an anxious wish to lead a highly-gifted mind like yours to those thoughts which alone can satisfy it. " Before I leave this place, instead...
Page 315 - He adds various legacies to servants and others. The general residue of his perspnal estate he directs to be invested in the purchase of lands, to be settled to the same uses as the Dorsetshire estates.
Page 474 - I am worn to death ; here have we been, sitting on in the vacation, from nine in the morning until four, and when we leave this place I have to read through all my papers to be ready for to-morrow morning; but the most extraordinary part of all is, that Eldon, who has not only mine, but all the other business to go through, is just as cheerful and untired as ever.