 | De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - 1878 - 1146 sider
...him 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.' " On reading the foregoing, one is tempted to ask, Is it better or worse ? Popery or Protestantism... | |
 | sir Alan Henry Bellingham (4th bart.), Prosper Charles A. baron de Haulleville - 1878 - 344 sider
...reign of William III. is described by Burke as a code well digested and well disposed in all its parts, a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man. It was framed by a small minority of the nation for the oppression of the majority, who remained... | |
 | REV. DR. JOHN ALZOG - 1878 - 1112 sider
...better described than in the words of Edmund Burke. " It was," says this distinguished statesman, " a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." On the accession of George I. of the house of Brunswick to the English throne, the Tories were... | |
 | James Joseph Brennan - 1878 - 270 sider
...elaborate contrivance, 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." Q. How does Montesquieu brand these same laws ? A. "This horrid code," says he, "was conceived... | |
 | Prosper de Haulleville - 1878 - 350 sider
...and well disposed in all its parts, a machine of wise and elaborate c«ntrivance, and as well tilted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement iu them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man. It was framed... | |
 | Prosper Charles Alexandre Baron de Haulleville, Prosper de Haulleville - 1879 - 360 sider
...reign of William III. is described by Burke as a code well digested and well disposed in all its parts, a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man. It was framed by a small minority of the nation for the oppression of the majority, who remained... | |
 | William Gleeson - 1880 - 592 sider
...and elaborate contrivance 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." In fine the French jurist, Montesquieu calls it " a code conceived by devils, written in human... | |
 | John Tracy Ellis - 1969 - 340 sider
...well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well f1tted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man. 21 That the penal codes of the American colonies did not reach the tyrannical perfection noticed... | |
 | John Tracy Ellis - 1969 - 340 sider
...parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, 2O impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.al That the penal codes of the American colonies did not reach the tyrannical perfection noticed... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe - 1972 - 664 sider
...indictment of the penal code "as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a feeble people, and the debasement in them of human nature...as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." During the last quarter or so of the eighteenth century the condition of the catholics was gradually... | |
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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... 
