The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon: With Selections from His Correspondence, Volumen2

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J. Murray, 1844 - 869 páginas
 

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Página 402 - 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...
Página 31 - And whereas the Senate of the United States have approved of the said arrangement and recommended that it should be carried into effect, the same having also received the sanction of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His...
Página 334 - 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.
Página 334 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Página 403 - 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.
Página 220 - ... told his Majesty it was impossible to maintain that his assent had not been expressed, or to cure the evils which were consequential, after the Bill, in such circumstances, had been read a second time, and in the Lords' House with a majority of 105.
Página 220 - There were the strongest appearances certainly of misery. He, more than once, stopped my leaving him. When the time came that I was to go, he threw his arms round my neck and expressed great misery. I left him about twenty minutes or a quarter before five.
Página 116 - The appointment of Lord Francis Conyngham in the Foreign Office, has, by female influence, put Canning beyond the reach of anything to affect him, and will assuredly enable him to turn those out whom he does not wish to remain in. The King is in such thraldom that one has nobody to fall back upon. The person that has got . . . ., after having in conversations, I believe, uttered nothing that was kind about Canning, was one of his voters for his cabinet office. The devil of it is, there is no consistency...
Página 59 - I think no Administration, who have any regard for him, will go the length he wishes, as an Administration— and if they will, they cannot take Parliament along with them. That body is afraid of disclosures- — not on one side only — which may affect the monarchy itself.
Página 143 - My opinion is that the Establishment is formed, not for the purpose of making the Church political, but for the purpose of making the State religious: that an Establishment, with an enlightened toleration, is as necessary to the peace of the State, as to the maintenance of religion, without which the State can have no solid peace...

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