 | 1840 - 552 sivua
...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 governors of England maintained it while they could. It was the mystic symbol of their rule ; and... | |
 | 1842 - 380 sivua
...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." Although it is now no more, it has left behind it habits and dispositions which are opposed to improvement... | |
 | 1843 - 600 sivua
...as well-fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of the people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man ;" and when the free enjoyment of religion, the rights of property, and the privilege of education... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1844 - 524 sivua
...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 has been said that during the century of legalized oppression by means of the penal laws, " Ireland... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1845 - 496 sivua
...contrivance, as well fitted for the oppression, imprisonment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.' It is in vain to say that these cruelties were laws of political safety; such has always been the plea for... | |
 | Charles Greville - 1845 - 422 sivua
...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."f " To render man patient under a deprivation of all the rights of human nature, everything which... | |
 | Charles Greville - 1845 - 388 sivua
...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."f " To render man patient under a deprivation of all the rights of human nature, everything which... | |
 | 1847 - 606 sivua
...ns well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of the people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." The effect of these laws, although they did not win to Protestantism any considerable portion of the... | |
 | 1847 - 584 sivua
...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." We are at the moment not concerned with more than its effect on the occupation of land in the kingdom,... | |
 | Jonathan Pim - 1848 - 398 sivua
...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." Arthur Young, in his " Tour in Ireland," speaks of the effects of these penal laws on industry, in... | |
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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. 
