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 National Quarterly Review - Page 2361867Full view - About this book
| 1917 - 436 pages
...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.' To capture the three strongholds of Whig policy,... | |
| Charles de Villers - 1805 - 516 pages
...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," tion. They founded there Philadelphia, the... | |
| Francis Plowden - 1805 - 496 pages
...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 itaelf, as ever proceeded from ' the perverted ingenuity of man." f These members instead of opposing... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 pages
...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... | |
| Dennis Taaffe - 1810 - 588 pages
...machine of Aviso ami 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."f * Currie. Hist. Rev. i Burke's Let. to Sir... | |
| 1840 - 606 pages
...glorious countryman has imperishably said, 4vJ " was as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature it.self, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man."* The governors of England maintained it while... | |
| Francis Plowden - 1812 - 652 pages
...machine of wise and elaborate contrivance j and as well fitted for trie 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." P* 1T03. Some members of the commons affected... | |
| Francis Plowden - 1812 - 678 pages
...rmchine of wise and elaborate contrivance j and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itielf, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.". I/O3- Some members of the commons... | |
| Stephen Barlow - 1814 - 504 pages
...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 itselfj as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." VOL. i. • X The first step in this... | |
| Charles Phillips - 1818 - 248 pages
...machine of wise and elaborate con" trivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, im" poverishment, and degradation of a people, and the " debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever " proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man !" — o — Not e'en Cremona's dassicjlame.... | |
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