 It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.  A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century - Page 170by William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1892Full view - About this book
 | 1917 - 436 pages
...fervid denunciation of that code contains no exaggeration : ' I must,' he wrote, ' do it justice ; it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency,...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.' To capture the three strongholds of Whig policy, the new Irish Party, led by Flood, Grattan, and Charlemont,... | |
 | Charles de Villers - Church history - 1805 - 516 pages
...(the penal code against the Catholics) as I did, for its vicious perfection. For I must do it justice. It was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency;...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man," tion. They founded there Philadelphia, the city of brothers, the finest name undoubtedly ever given... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...the old code. You abhor-i red it, as I did, for its vicious perfection. For I must do it justice : it was a complete system, full- of coherence and consistency...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.... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1810 - 588 pages
...coherence and consistency; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of Aviso ami elaborate contrivance; and as well fitted for the...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man."f * Currie. Hist. Rev. i Burke's Let. to Sir HL By these acts, if the eldest, or any other son,... | |
 | 1840 - 606 pages
...and elaborate contrivance, which," as our own glorious countryman has imperishably said, 4vJ " was as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment,...proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man."* The governors of England maintained it while they could. It was the mystic symbol of their rule ; and when... | |
 | 1812 - 576 pages
...p. (• Buike, v. 5. p. 272. coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all ks parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance...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,...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." P* 1T03. Some members of the commons affected to clear themselves of responsibility, by resigning their... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 402 pages
...old code. You abhorred it, as I did, for its vicious perfection. For I must do it justice : it M'as a complete system, full of coherence and consistency;...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.... | |
 | 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...ever " proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man !" — o — Not e'en Cremona's dassicjlame. — Page ISO. At CREMONA the regiments of DILLON and BURKE... | |
 | William Henry Curran - Lawyers - 1819 - 468 pages
...subordinate ministers sprang up within the land, of no public virtue, no for I must do it justice, it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency,...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." — Burkes Letter to Sir H. Lcmgrishe. * Such was the declaration from the bench of the Irish chancellor... | |
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