 | 1917 - 436 pagina’s
...notorious. Burke 's fervid denunciation of that code contains no exaggeration : ' I must,' he wrote, ' do it justice ; it was a complete system, full of...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,... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - 1810 - 588 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...and elaborate contrivance, which," as our own glorious countryman has imperishably said, 4vJ " was as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment,...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 ; and... | |
 | 1812 - 576 pagina’s
...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 - 1812 - 652 pagina’s
...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 - 1815 - 402 pagina’s
...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 - 1818 - 248 pagina’s
...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 - 1819 - 468 pagina’s
...as he found it. A race of subordinate ministers sprang up within the land, of no public virtue, no for I must do it justice, it was a complete system,...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... | |
 | Mathew Carey - 1819 - 536 pagina’s
...bigoted savages, who were a disgrace to human nature itself."^ The code against the Roman Catholics " was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ;...proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man."^| " To render men patient under a deprivation of all the rights of human nature, every thing which could... | |
 | Mathew Carey - 1819 - 536 pagina’s
...bigoted savages, who were a disgrace to human nature itself."\\ The code against the Roman Catholics " was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ;...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... | |
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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. 
