 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
 | Augustus J. Thébaud - Ireland - 1878 - 574 pages
...understanding the meaning of Edmund Burke's words wnen he said : " The code against the 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... | |
 | James Joseph Brennan - Ireland - 1878 - 270 pages
...system—full of coherence and consistency; well digested and well disposed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as...the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of the people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted... | |
 | Augustus J. Thébaud - Ireland - 1878 - 604 pages
...understanding the meaning of Edmund Burke's words when he said : " The code against the 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... | |
 | De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - Christian biography - 1878 - 1146 pages
...without paying a farthing of the purchase money. ''Edmund Burke, speaking of the code, said: 'It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as...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 Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1878 - 750 pages
...the blackest pages in the history of persecution. In the words of Burke, ' 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,... | |
 | De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - Mythology - 1880 - 980 pages
...without paying a farthing of the purchase money. " Edmund Burke, speaking of the code, said, ' It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as...the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasemeuent in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Ireland - 1881 - 464 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 as...the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity... | |
 | Art - 1881 - 520 pages
...When Burke entered political life, Irelaud was groaning unMer the Penal Laws — in his own words, " a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as...the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Ireland - 1881 - 462 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,... | |
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