 | William Henry Curran - 1819 - 468 sider
...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 ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." — Burkes Letter to Sir H. Lcmgrishe. * Such was the declaration from the bench of the Irish... | |
 | Mathew Carey - 1823 - 534 sider
...code ago ins t the Roman Catholics '• was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance; and as toell fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man."988 " To render men patient under a deprivation of all the rights of human nature, every thing... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1824 - 420 sider
...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 ever " proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." In short, ¿hiring this queen's reign, who is lauded by the " few plain Christians," for her... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1824 - 404 sider
...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...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... | |
 | 1824 - 706 sider
...a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the impoverishment, oppression, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." The following prayers of petitions, extracted from the journals of the Irish House of Commons,... | |
 | William Phelan - 1827 - 378 sider
...of 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." These are severe terms : but no language can be too bitter to denounce the refined malignity... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 346 sider
...of torturing his fellowcreatures may be brought by civilized man. It was truly, as Burke calls it, " a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." There was more blood drawn by Dioclesian, and other heathen bunglers in persecution ; but the... | |
 | 1833 - 784 sider
...time that the Parliament had completed that Penal Code which the great Burke pronounced, " a machine, as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." When, in concluding this hasty retrospect, we add to the abovementioned cases, the ill-judged... | |
 | 1837 - 828 sider
...framed laws in which human "cruelty seemed exhausted''^ — laws " as well Btted," it has been said, for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man,"|| and, having thus acted as the tormentors of Roman Catholics for more than half a century of... | |
 | 1847 - 608 sider
...elaborate contrivp.nce, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of the people, and the debasement in them of human nature...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." The effect of these laws, although they did not win to Protestantism any Irish character. Those... | |
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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... 
