 | 1833 - 784 pagina’s
...time that the Parliament had completed that Penal Code which the great Burke pronounced, " a machine, as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." When, in concluding this hasty retrospect, we add to the abovementioned cases, the ill-judged zeal... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 618 pagina’s
...as 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. It is a thing humiliating enough, that we are douhtful of the effect of the medicines we compound.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 620 pagina’s
...as 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. It is a thing humiliating enough, that we are doubtful of the effect of the medicines we compound.... | |
 | 1837 - 828 pagina’s
...framed laws in which human "cruelty seemed exhausted''^ — laws " as well Btted," it has been said, for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation...proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man,"|| and, having thus acted as the tormentors of Roman Catholics for more than half a century of power,... | |
 | 1847 - 608 pagina’s
...elaborate contrivp.nce, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of the people, and the debasement in them of human nature...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." The effect of these laws, although they did not win to Protestantism any Irish character. Those Catholics... | |
 | Joseph Marie comte de Maistre - 1838 - 130 pagina’s
...inhumanity, and oppression. " They are a system," says Mr. Burke, " as well fitted for the debasement of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." In fact, they are the violation of every principle, both human, and divine, — of every law, moral,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 548 pagina’s
...well as the policy pointed out by that understanding, led you to abhor the old code. You abhorred it, as I did, for its vicious perfection. For I must do...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.... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1839 - 760 pagina’s
...elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of the people, and the debasement in them of human nature...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." The spirit in which this detestable code was acted upon may be inferred from the circumstance that,... | |
 | 1840 - 552 pagina’s
...and elaborate contrivance, which," as our own glorious countrymen lias iiuperishably nid, 458 " 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... | |
 | 1842 - 380 pagina’s
...poverty and ignorance, and which was perfect for its purpose. It was, to use the words of Mr. Burke, " a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." Although it is now no more, it has left behind it habits and dispositions which are opposed to improvement... | |
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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. 
