 | Edmund Burke - 1823 - 390 pagina’s
...; it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested, and well com-, posed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate...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.... | |
 | Mathew Carey - 1823 - 534 pagina’s
...code ago ins t the Roman Catholics '• was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance; and as toell fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man."988 " To render men patient under a deprivation of all the rights of human nature, every thing... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1824 - 420 pagina’s
...alluding to the cruelty of the penal code under which the Catholics groaned, says, " You abhorred it, as I did, for its vicious perfection. " For I must..." proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." In short, ¿hiring this queen's reign, who is lauded by the " few plain Christians," for her merciful... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1824 - 404 pagina’s
...torturing his fellow-creatures may be brought by civilized man. It was truly, as Burke calls it, " a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." There was more blood drawn by Dioclesian K and other heathen bunglers in persecution ; but the refinement... | |
 | 1824 - 706 pagina’s
...a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the impoverishment, oppression, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." The following prayers of petitions, extracted from the journals of the Irish House of Commons, prove... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1824 - 422 pagina’s
...well fitted ' for the OPPRESSION, IMPOVERISHMENT, and DEGRADATION ' of a people, and the dehasement in them of human nature itself, as ever " proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." In short, during this queen's reign, who is lauded by the " few plain Christians," for her merciful... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - 596 pagina’s
...contrivance, as well fitted for the oppression, imprisonment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." It is in vain to say that these cruelties were laws of political safety ; such has always been the... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1826 - 136 pagina’s
...contrivance, as well fitted for the oppression, imprisonment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." It is in vain t» say that these cruelties were laws of political safety ; such has always been the... | |
 | William Phelan - 1827 - 378 pagina’s
...of torturing his fellow-creatures may be brought by civilized man." It was truly, as Burke calls it, "a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." These are severe terms : but no language can be too bitter to denounce the refined malignity of the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 346 pagina’s
...of torturing his fellowcreatures may be brought by civilized man. It was truly, as Burke calls it, " a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." There was more blood drawn by Dioclesian, and other heathen bunglers in persecution ; but the refinement... | |
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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. 
