 | 1847 - 606 sider
...elaborate contrivance, and ns 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 considerable portion... | |
 | 1847 - 306 sider
...and well-disposed in all its parts ; a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, well fitted for the impoverishment and degradation of a people, 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... | |
 | Jonathan Pim - 1848 - 398 sider
...the degrading effect of the penal laws,* which * Of these penal laws Burke observes, that " they were as well fitted " for the oppression, impoverishment,...as ever proceeded " from the perverted ingenuity of man." Arthur Young, in his " Tour in Ireland," speaks of the effects of these penal laws on industry,... | |
 | Jonathan Pim - 1848 - 396 sider
...the degrading effect of the penal laws,* which * Of these penal laws Burke observes, that " they were as well fitted " for the oppression, impoverishment,...as ever proceeded " from the perverted ingenuity of man." Arthur Young, in his " Tour in Ireland," speaks of the effects of these penal laws on industry,... | |
 | Philip Harwood - 1848 - 264 sider
...digested afrd well composed in all its parts; a machme of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as will fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man."* We have given these things in all their odious iand disgusting detail, because otherwise the... | |
 | Henry Brewster Stanton - 1849 - 412 sider
..."as a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, noted for its vicious perfection; and as admirably fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation...of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the pervertod ingenuity of man." Even Blackstonc, who usually selected his choicest eulogies for the darkest... | |
 | John England - 1849 - 520 sider
...contrivance, and as well fitted for the impoverishment, and degra* See Rushwortb's Col. vol. i. dation oi ;i people, and the debasement in them, of human nature...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.'* In the pious work of persecuting popery, the ecclesiastical establishment, whose distinguishing... | |
 | 1849 - 448 sider
...people, and introduce universal poverty, ignorance, and wretchedness. Burke says : — " It was truly a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." " I vow to God," says Burke, " I would sooner bring myself to put a man to immediate death for... | |
 | 1850 - 550 sider
...as " a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, noted for its vicious perfection, and as admirably fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." Yet not only was poor King George the Third — a model of propriety and of all the homely virtues... | |
 | 1850 - 608 sider
...as " a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, noted for its vicious perfection, and as admirably fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." Yet not only was poor King George the Third — a model of propriety and of all the homely virtues... | |
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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... 
