 | English essays - 1852 - 498 pages
...contrivance, as well fitted for the oppression, imprisonment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." It is in vain to say that these cruelties were laws of political safety ; such has always been the... | |
 | Thomas D'Arcy McGee - Catholics - 1853 - 400 pages
...description : " It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." * Sir Charles was a worthy descendant of that famous Cavalier mentioned in the text. He won his knightly... | |
 | William Henry Seward - New York (State) - 1853 - 700 pages
...consistency ; well digested and well disposed in all its parts; a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, well fitted for the impoverishment and degradation...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... | |
 | William Henry Seward - New York (State) - 1853 - 706 pages
...consistency ; well digested and well disposed in all its parts ; a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, well fitted for the impoverishment and degradation...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... | |
 | John Mitchel - Exiles - 1854 - 384 pages
...this Penal Code " a machine of wise and deliberate contrivance, as we.l fitted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of a people, and the...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." Singular, that it originated with the " Glorious Revolution," and was in full force during the reign... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Great Britain - 1854 - 846 pages
...elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of the people, and the debasement in them of human nature...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." The spirit in which this code was acted upon may be inferred from the circumstance that, in 1708, on... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - English essays - 1854 - 338 pages
...contrivance, as well fitted for the oppression, imprisonment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." It is in vain to say that these cruelties were laws of political safety; such has always been the plea... | |
 | Richard Tuthill Massy - Celts - 1855 - 280 pages
...aye, and his very liberty; laws which Edmund Burke declared " were as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." Laws, equally detestable, short-sighted, and unstatesmanlike, crushed Ireland's progressive growth,... | |
 | William Henry Curran - 1855 - 1454 pages
...ita parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the...ever proceeded from the perverted Ingenuity of man." — Burke's Letter io Sir H. Langrinhe. by a kind of constructive annihilation, " the laws did not... | |
 | William Henry Curran - Ireland - 1855 - 566 pages
...lts parts. 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 homan nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of •am."— Burts's LMer to Sir... | |
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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... 
