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 1841929Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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