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" 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. "
The last days of O'Connell, papers written, or ed., by W.B. Maccabe - Page 259
1847
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The Life of the Right Honorable John Philpot Curran: Late Master of the ...

William Henry Curran - 1855 - 566 pages
...lts parts. 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 homan nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of •am."— Burts's LMer to Sir...
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Lecture on the Life and Times of Daniel O'Connell: Delivered in the Academy ...

John Hughes - 1856 - 36 pages
...its parts. 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." Under the operation of such a system, which...
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The Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 7

1857 - 1712 pages
...its parts. 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."* This code had now attained such a " vicious...
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A history of the city of Dublin, Volume 3

sir John Thomas Gilbert - 1859 - 408 pages
...parts ; a machine of elaborate contrivance, as well fitted, said Edmund Burke, "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." In 1709 it was found necessary to expend a...
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The History of the Protestant Reformation, in Germany and Switzerland, and ...

Martin John Spalding - 1860 - 530 pages
...said : ' 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.' " * In the North American Eeview, for January,...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1860 - 638 pages
...parts. 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. It is a thing humiliating enough, that we are...
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Études sur l'Irlande contemporaine, Volume 1

Cardinal Adolphe Louis Albert Perraud, Adolphe Perraud - 1862 - 568 pages
...l'Irlande. 1 « It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, as well fttted for the oppression , impoverishment and degradation of a people , and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from thc perverted ingenuity of man. » (Rurke's Works, p. 87.) 1 « Scully's penal...
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The Diocese of Meath: Ancient and Modern, Volume 2

Anthony Cogan - 1867 - 584 pages
...parts. 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." " These laws" wrote another candid Protestant,...
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Études sur l'Irlande contemporaine, Volume 1

Cardinal Adolphe Louis Albert Perraud, Adolphe Perraud - 1862 - 564 pages
...l'IrInnde. * « II was a machine of wise and claborate contrivancc, as well fitted for the oppression , impoverishment and degradation of a people , and the debasement in them of human nature itsclf, as ever proceeded from Ihe perverted ingenuity of man. » (Rurke's H'orfcs, p. 87.) - « Scully's...
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The Complete Works of the Most Rev. John Hughes, Archibishop of ..., Volume 2

John Hughes - 1864 - 820 pages
...its parts. 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." Under the operation of such a system, which...
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