| William Henry Curran - 1855 - 1454 sider
...complete system, full of coherence and consistency, well digested and well composed in mil ita parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and...as ever proceeded from the perverted Ingenuity of man." — Burke's Letter io Sir H. Langrinhe. by a kind of constructive annihilation, " the laws did... | |
| Richard Tuthill Massy - 1855 - 280 sider
...Irishman of his land, his house, aye, and his very liberty; laws which Edmund Burke declared " were as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment,...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." Laws, equally detestable, short-sighted, and unstatesmanlike, crushed Ireland's progressive growth,... | |
| William Henry Curran - 1855 - 566 sider
...complete system, full of coherence and consistency, well digested and well composed to all lts parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and...degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of homan nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of •am."— Burts's LMer to Sir... | |
| John Hughes - 1856 - 36 sider
...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 ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." Under the operation of such a system, which had been in force for more than eighty years, Daniel... | |
| 1857 - 1712 sider
...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 ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man."* This code had now attained such a " vicious perfection," that the very existence of a Eoman... | |
| William Henry Curran - 1858 - 694 sider
...complete system, full of coherence and consistency, well digested and well composed in u!l its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and...itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity o' man." — Burk&s Letter to Sir H. Lang by a kind of constructive annihilation, "the laws lid not... | |
| sir John Thomas Gilbert - 1859 - 408 sider
...composed in all its parts ; a machine of elaborate contrivance, as well fitted, said Edmund Burke, "for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." In 1709 it was found necessary to expend a considerable sum in repairing "Chichester House,"... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1860 - 638 sider
...complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It ion under the direction of a feeble reason feeds a...entertains it. But vehement passion does not always man. It is a thing humiliating enough, that we are doubtful of the effect of the medicines we compound.... | |
| Martin John Spalding - 1860 - 530 sider
...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 ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.' " * In the North American Eeview, for January, 1858, art. Ireland, Past »nd Present. f The writer... | |
| William Henry Seward - 1853 - 666 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... | |
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