 | Henry Martyn Field - 1851 - 392 pagina’s
...for the opLAWS AGAINST CATHOLICS. 43 pression, impoverishment and degradation of a people, and tke debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." By the laws passed in the reign of Queen Anne, a Catholic could not purchase an acre of ground in the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 608 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.... | |
 | 1852 - 498 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... | |
 | Thomas D'Arcy McGee - 1853 - 400 pagina’s
...the attempt, and, in the poverty of language, he borj rowed Edmund Burke's striking description : " It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance,...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." * Sir Charles was a worthy descendant of that famous Cavalier mentioned in the text. He won his knightly... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1853 - 678 pagina’s
...coherence and consistency, well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wi.-c and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man. It is a thin^c humiliating enough that we are doubtful of the effect of the medicines we comVOL. XXXIV,—... | |
 | William Henry Seward - 1853 - 706 pagina’s
...and well disposed in all its parts ; a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, well fitted for the impoverishment and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself." This system continued in its utmost possible efficiency until the year 1778 ; and, although then somewhat... | |
 | John Mitchel - 1854 - 384 pagina’s
...scheme. Edmund Burke calls this Penal Code " a machine of wise and deliberate contrivance, as we.l fitted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." Singular, that it originated with the " Glorious Revolution," and was in full force during the reign... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1854 - 846 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 code was acted upon may be inferred from the circumstance that, in 1708, on... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - 1854 - 338 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 plea... | |
 | William Henry Curran - 1855 - 1454 pagina’s
...was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency, well digested and well composed in mil ita parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance,...ever proceeded from the perverted Ingenuity of man." — Burke's Letter io Sir H. Langrinhe. by a kind of constructive annihilation, " the laws did not... | |
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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. 
