 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.  History of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 - Page 6by Philip Harwood - 1844 - 248 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1917 - 436 pages
...that code contains no exaggeration : ' I must,' he wrote, ' 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,... | |
 | Charles de Villers - Church history - 1805 - 516 pages
...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...the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity... | |
 | Francis Plowden - Ireland - 1805 - 496 pages
...it, as I * 4id, for its vicious perfection. For 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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...red it, as I did, for its vicious perfection. For 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,... | |
 | 1812 - 576 pages
...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 ; and...the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity... | |
 | Francis Plowden - Ireland - 1812 - 652 pages
...abhorred it, as I did, for its vicious perfection.. For! must do it just, ice. It was a complete system full of coherence and consistency : well digested and well composed in all its part*. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance j and as well fitted for trie oppression,... | |
 | Stephen Barlow - Ireland - 1814 - 504 pages
...abhorred it, as I did, for its vicious perfection. For 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,... | |
 | John Christian Curwen - Agricultural laborers - 1818 - 388 pages
...abhorred it, as I did, for its vicious perfection ; for 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 Disabilities to which the Irish were subject. 63 of wise and elaborate contrivance,... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...savages, who were a disgrace to human nature itself."\\ The code against the Roman Catholics " was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and...the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity... | |
 | William Henry Curran - Lawyers - 1819 - 468 pages
...sprang up within the land, of no public virtue, no for 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,... | |
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