 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.  Writings and Speeches - Pàgina 303per Edmund Burke - 1901Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1917 - 436 pàgines
...notorious. Burke 's fervid denunciation of that code contains no exaggeration : ' I must,' he wrote, ' do it justice ; it was a complete system, full of...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.' To capture the three strongholds of Whig policy, the new Irish Party, led by Flood, Grattan, and Charlemont,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 408 pàgines
...oppreffion, impoverifhment, and degradation of a people, and the debafement, in them, of human nature itfelf, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of...thing humiliating enough, that we are doubtful of the efFecb of the medicines we compound. We are fure of our poifons. My opinion ever was (in which I heartily... | |
 | 1840 - 606 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1812 - 576 pàgines
...p. (• Buike, v. 5. p. 272. coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all ks parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance...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 pàgines
...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 - 1818 - 248 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Henry Curran - 1819 - 468 pàgines
...as he found it. A race of subordinate ministers sprang up within the land, of no public virtue, no for I must do it justice, it was a complete system,...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 - 1819 - 536 pàgines
...bigoted savages, who were a disgrace to human nature itself."^ The code against the Roman Catholics " was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ;...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 Eusebius Andrews - 1824 - 420 pàgines
...Hercules Langrishe, alluding to the cruelty of the penal code under which the Catholics groaned, says, " You abhorred it, as I did, for its vicious perfection...." proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." In short, ¿hiring this queen's reign, who is lauded by the " few plain Christians," for her merciful... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1824 - 404 pàgines
...torturing his fellow-creatures may be brought by civilized man. It was truly, as Burke calls it, " a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as...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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