| Richard Tuthill Massy - 1855 - 280 pagina’s
...Irishman of his land, his house, aye, and his very liberty; laws which Edmund Burke declared " were as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment,...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." Laws, equally detestable, short-sighted, and unstatesmanlike, crushed Ireland's progressive growth,... | |
| John Hughes - 1856 - 36 pagina’s
...perfection. It was a complete system — full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well disposed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." Under the operation of such a system, which had been in force for more than eighty years, Daniel O'Connell... | |
| 1857 - 1712 pagina’s
...— it was a complete system — full of coherence and consistency; well digested and well disposed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man."* This code had now attained such a " vicious perfection," that the very existence of a Eoman Catholic... | |
| William Henry Curran - 1858 - 694 pagina’s
...it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency, well digested and well composed in u!l its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate...itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity o' man." — Burk&s Letter to Sir H. Lang by a kind of constructive annihilation, "the laws lid not... | |
| sir John Thomas Gilbert - 1859 - 408 pagina’s
...composed in all its parts ; a machine of elaborate contrivance, as well fitted, said Edmund Burke, "for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." In 1709 it was found necessary to expend a considerable sum in repairing "Chichester House," and "although... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1860 - 638 pagina’s
...out by that understanding, led you to abhor the old code. You abhorred it, as I did, for its vicioua d j o d It is a thing humiliating enough, that we are doubtful of the effect of the medicines we compound.... | |
| Martin John Spalding - 1860 - 530 pagina’s
...him without paying a farthing of the purchase money.' "Edmund Burke, speaking of the code, said : ' It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance,...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.' " * In the North American Eeview, for January, 1858, art. Ireland, Past »nd Present. f The writer... | |
| William Henry Seward - 1853 - 666 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... | |
| Anthony Cogan - 1867 - 584 pagina’s
...— it was a complete system — full of coherence and consistency, well digested and well disposed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." " These laws" wrote another candid Protestant, "formed the most complete code of persecution that ingenious... | |
| Cardinal Adolphe Louis Albert Perraud, Adolphe Perraud - 1862 - 568 pagina’s
...préjugés en faveur de l'Irlande. 1 « It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, as well fttted for the oppression , impoverishment and degradation...them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from thc perverted ingenuity of man. » (Rurke's Works, p. 87.) 1 « Scully's penal Laws, — G. Lewis Irish... | |
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