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 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 440 - The doctrines of this court ought to be as well settled, and made as uniform almost as those of the common law, laying down fixed principles, but taking care that they are to be applied according to the circumstances of each case.
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 87 - 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 440 - I cannot agree that the doctrines of this Court are to be changed with every succeeding judge. Nothing would inflict on me greater pain, in quitting this place, than the recollection that I had done anything to justify the reproach that the equity of this court varies like the Chancellor's foot.
Page 86 - Go on," when he knew not how to relieve himself from the state in which he was placed ; and that, in one of those meetings, when resignation was threatened, he was urged to the sort of consent he gave, by what passed in the interview between him and his ministers, till the interview and the talk had brought him into such a state, that he hardly knew what he was about when he, after several hours, said
Page 88 - That it was not my opinion, nor the opinions of Arehbishops, Bishops, or Lay Peers (all which tie must know, as well the opinions in favour of the measure as those against it) that were to guide and govern him ; but he was to act according to his own conscientious view of the obligations under which such an oath placed him. " Little more passed — except occasional bursts of expression, —
Page 87 - 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,