An address to ... earl Stanhope, on ... a survey of Chevening park made ... in 18171831 |
Other editions - View all
An Address to ... Earl Stanhope, on ... a Survey of Chevening Park Made ... Abraham Barham No preview available - 2020 |
An Address to ... Earl Stanhope, on ... a Survey of Chevening Park Made ... Abraham Barham No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
ABRAHAM BARHAM accused alterations amongst Arbitration had taken assert Bible bill cause Chap charges contained Chevening Park Cobbett conduct contend Contracts Paying Corn Laws Country Cudham Debts and Contracts delay Distress Earl Stanhope Employers endeavour Epictetus Equity error Estates Faith Farm favour Fletcher give Hogben honour House of Lords Ibid injustice inquiry interest Jeremiah Joyce judge justice Kent labour Land Surveyor Learned Friend Letter Lord Eldon Lord Goderich Lord Mahon Lordship Maidstone Majesty Majesty's Manner of Debts Mapping Land Marquis of Londonderry Measuring and Mapping ment moral National Creditors neighbours Noble and Learned nominal amount occasion old Map opinion paid Parliament Parties payment person Property proposed Arbitration prove Public quantity question Reduce the Dividends Referees remeasure the whole Rents reply satisfaction says shew Shillings Sir Edward Knatchbull Sixpence per Acre Slaves Stanhope's Surveying thing tion truth unreasonable and exorbitant whole Park Woolsack wrong
Popular passages
Page 9 - It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
Page 64 - What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.
Page 99 - 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] a Chancellor's Foot, what an uncertain Measure would this be?
Page 98 - 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 81 - The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
Page 129 - That grate the soul of harmony. Each pedant sage unlocks his store Of mystic, dark, discordant lore; And points, with tottering hand, the ways That lead me to the thorny maze.
Page 44 - The truth is, that the mind of man desireth evermore to know the truth according to the most infallible certainty which the nature of things can yield. The greatest assurance generally with all men is that which we have by plain aspect and intuitive beholding.
Page 125 - ... lose what is their own, and let the debtors gain what in justice is another's ; for nothing so cements and holds together in union all the parts of a society, as faith or credit ; which can never be kept up, unless men are under some force and necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.
Page 21 - I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you ? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren ? 6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
Page 61 - Observing our faults in others is sometimes improper for our case : but the best receipt, best, I say, to work, and best to take, is the admonition of a friend. It is a strange thing to behold what gross errors and extreme absurdities many...