 | Francis Plowden - 1805 - 496 pages
...composed ' in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as ' well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation...people, ' and the debasement in them of human nature itaelf, as ever proceeded from ' the perverted ingenuity of man." f These members instead of opposing... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 pages
...composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation...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.... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - 1810 - 588 pages
...composed in all its parts. It was a machine of Aviso ami elaborate contrivance; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation...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 pages
...contrivance, which," as our own glorious countryman has imperishably said, 4vJ " was as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation...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 pages
...well composed in all ks parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Plowden - 1812 - 678 pages
...composed in all its parts. It was a rmchine of wise and elaborate contrivance j and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation...people, and the debasement in them of human nature itielf, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.". I/O3- Some members of the commons... | |
 | Stephen Barlow - 1814 - 504 pages
...well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation...people, and the debasement in them of human nature itselfj as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." VOL. i. • X The first step in this... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1818 - 248 pages
...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... | |
 | Mathew Carey - 1819 - 536 pages
...against the Roman Catholics " was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation...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... | |
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I must do it justice : it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation... 
