| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 ページ
...make the standard for the measure we call a Foot a Chancellpr's Foot ; what an uncertain measure would this be ? One Chancellor has a long Foot, 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 ページ
...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... | |
| Sir Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling - 1884 - 1254 ページ
....... 'Tis all one as if wo should make the standard for the measure of a foot the Chancellor's foot. One Chancellor has a long foot ; another, a short foot ; a third, an indifferent foot." The Tudor Chanci-llors certainly seem to have deferred to the personal leaning« of the sovereign.... | |
| Sidney James Mark Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling - 1884 - 1136 ページ
....... 'Tis all one as if we should make the standard for the measure of a foot the Chancellor's foot. One Chancellor has a long foot : another, a short foot ; a third, an indifferent foot." The Tudor Chancellors certainly seem to have deferred to the personal leanings of the sovereign. But... | |
| Sir Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling - 1884 - 1150 ページ
....... 'Tie all one as if we thould make the standard for the measure of » foot the Chancellor's foot. One Chancellor has a long foot ; another, a short foot ; a third, яп indifferent foot." The Tudor ChanOellors certainly seem to have deferred to the personal leanings... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 ページ
...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. 'Tis the same in the chancellor's conscience. 1375 John Selden : Table Talk. Equity. ERROR An error... | |
| Frederick Andrew Inderwick - 1891 - 364 ページ
...the standard for the measure we call a foot a Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure this 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."—Table Talk; Equity. 2 Hansard Parliamentary... | |
| John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 ページ
...standard for the measnre we call a " foot " a Chancellor's foot; what an nncertain measnre wonld this he ! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'T is the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience. Tahle Talk. Eqnity. Old friends are hest. King... | |
| William Albert Keener - 1894 - 908 ページ
...his foot the standard for the measure we call 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." — SELDEN, Table Talk.(') (•) I intentionally... | |
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