 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - 2005 - 1436 ページ
...as if they should make the standard of measure 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. 'Tis the same .thing in the chancellor's conscience." Similar, though not expressed, perhaps, in a... | |
 | George P. Fletcher, Steve Sheppard - 2005 - 700 ページ
...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. 'Tis the same thing in the Chancellor's Conscience." Do you agree? Is the predictability of equity... | |
 | William Willis - 2006 - 760 ページ
...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, a third an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the chancellor's conscience." Mr. Orr's first appearance in the reports is... | |
 | Andrew J. Majeske - 2006 - 232 ページ
...uncertain Measure would this be? One Chancellor Equity in Book V of Spenser's The Faerie Queene 97 has a long Foot, another a short Foot, a Third an indifferent Foot: 'Tis the same thing in the Chancellor's Conscience.7 (Table Talk 64) Hypothesizing that Spenser shared... | |
 | William Kolbrener, Michal Michelson - 2007 - 244 ページ
...standard for the measure we call a 'foot' a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure that would be! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience" (Richard Milward, "Equity," in Table Talk of John... | |
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... 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, a Chancellor's foot; what an... 
