 | Francis Plowden - Ireland - 1805 - 496 pages
...coherence and consistency: well digested and well composed ' in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as ' well fitted for the...people, ' and the debasement in them of human nature itaelf, as ever proceeded from ' the perverted ingenuity of man." f These members instead of opposing... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man. It is a thing humiliating enough, that we are doubtful of the effect of the medicines we compound.... | |
 | 1840 - 606 pages
...and elaborate contrivance, which," as our own glorious countryman has imperishably said, 4vJ " was as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment,...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man."* The governors of England maintained it while they could. It was the mystic symbol of their rule... | |
 | 1812 - 576 pages
...coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all ks parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man. ' — ' All the penal laws, ' he continues, ' of that unparalleled code of oppression, were manifestly... | |
 | Francis Plowden - Ireland - 1812 - 652 pages
...in all its part*. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance j and as well fitted for trie oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people,...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." P* 1T03. Some members of the commons affected to clear themselves of responsibility, by resigning... | |
 | Francis Plowden - Ireland - 1812 - 678 pages
...well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a rmchine of wise and elaborate contrivance j and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment,...people, and the debasement in them of human nature itielf, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.". I/O3- Some members of the commons... | |
 | Stephen Barlow - Ireland - 1814 - 504 pages
...coherence and consistency: well digested, and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the...people, and the debasement in them of human nature itselfj as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." VOL. i. • X The first step in this... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Elegiac poetry, English - 1818 - 248 pages
...machine of wise and elaborate con" trivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, im" poverishment, and degradation of a people, and the " debasement...as ever " proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man !" — o — Not e'en Cremona's dassicjlame. — Page ISO. At CREMONA the regiments of DILLON and... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...disgrace to human nature itself."\\ The code against the Roman Catholics " was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man."^j " To render men patient under a deprivation of all the rights of human nature, every thing... | |
 | William Henry Curran - Lawyers - 1819 - 468 pages
...coherence and consistency, well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." — Burkes Letter to Sir H. Lcmgrishe. * Such was the declaration from the bench of the Irish... | |
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I must do it justice : it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation... 
