 | Philip Harwood - 1848 - 264 sivua
...will 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 have given these things in all their odious iand disgusting detail, because otherwise the real spirit... | |
 | Jonathan Pim - 1848 - 396 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... | |
 | John England - 1849 - 520 sivua
...the impoverishment, and degra* See Rushwortb's Col. vol. i. dation oi ;i people, and the debasement in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.'* In the pious work of persecuting popery, the ecclesiastical establishment, whose distinguishing characteristic... | |
 | 1849 - 448 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." " I vow to God," says Burke, " I would sooner bring myself to put a man to immediate death for opinions... | |
 | 1850 - 608 sivua
...admirably 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." Yet not only was poor King George the Third — a model of propriety and of all the homely virtues... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - 1851 - 392 sivua
...opLAWS AGAINST CATHOLICS. 43 pression, impoverishment and degradation of a people, and tke debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." By the laws passed in the reign of Queen Anne, a Catholic could not purchase an acre of ground in the... | |
 | REV. R. STEWART - 1851 - 312 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 first step was the " Act for preventing the further growth of Popery," in which new severities... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 608 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...which I heartily agree with those that admired the old code) that it was so constructed, that if there was once a breach in any essential part of it,... | |
 | 1852 - 498 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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1853 - 678 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 is a thin^c humiliating enough that we are doubtful of the effect of the medicines we comVOL. XXXIV,—... | |
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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. 
