Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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... "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 184
1929
Full view - About this book

An Essay on the Spirit and Influence of the Reformation of Luther

Charles de Villers - Church history - 1805 - 516 pages
...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,...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man," tion. They founded there Philadelphia, the city of brothers, the finest name undoubtedly ever given...
Full view - About this book

An Impartial History of Ireland from the Period of the English ..., Volume 3

Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1810 - 588 pages
...digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of Aviso ami elaborate contrivance; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment,...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,...
Full view - About this book

The Dublin Magazine, Volume 1

1840 - 606 pages
...and elaborate contrivance, which," as our own glorious countryman has imperishably said, 4vJ " 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...
Full view - About this book

The History of Ireland: From Its Invasion Under Henry II. to Its ..., Volume 2

Francis Plowden - Ireland - 1812 - 650 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...
Full view - About this book

The Lament of the Emerald Isle

Charles Phillips - Elegiac poetry, English - 1818 - 250 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...
Full view - About this book

Vindicię Hibernicę, or, Ireland vindicated

Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...itself."^ The code against the Roman Catholics " was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment,...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...
Full view - About this book

The Life of the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran, Late Master ..., Volume 1

William Henry Curran - Lawyers - 1819 - 468 pages
...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,...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." — Burkes Letter to Sir H. Lcmgrishe. * Such was the declaration from the bench of the Irish chancellor...
Full view - About this book

Vindicię Hibernicę: Or, Ireland Vindicated:: An Attempt to Develop and ...

Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...itself."\\ The code against the Roman Catholics " was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment,...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man."^j " To render men patient under a deprivation of all the rights of human nature, every thing...
Full view - About this book

Vindiciae Hibernicae, Or, Ireland Vindicated: An Attempt to Develop and ...

Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1823 - 534 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

Memoirs of Captain Rock [pseud.]: The Celebrated Irish Chieftain. With Some ...

Thomas Moore - Botany Bay (N.S.W.) - 1824 - 404 pages
...civilized man. It was truly, as Burke calls it, " a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment,...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...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF