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. The Contemporary Review - Seite 2961880Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1917 - 436 Seiten
...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...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.' To capture the three strongholds of Whig policy, the new Irish Party, led by Flood, Grattan,... | |
| Francis Plowden - 1805 - 496 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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...as 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 Seiten
...coherence and consistency; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of Aviso ami elaborate contrivance; and as well fitted for the...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 Seiten
...and elaborate contrivance, which," as our own glorious countryman has imperishably said, 4vJ " was as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment,...as 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... | |
| 1812 - 576 Seiten
...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...as 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 Seiten
...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,...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." P* 1T03. Some members of the commons affected to clear themselves of responsibility, by resigning... | |
| Francis Plowden - 1812 - 678 Seiten
...well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a rmchine of wise and elaborate contrivance j and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment,...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 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...machine of wise and elaborate con" trivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, im" poverishment, and degradation of a people, and the " debasement...as ever " proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man !" — o — Not e'en Cremona's dassicjlame. — Page ISO. At CREMONA the regiments of DILLON and... | |
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