 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 Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir - Page 84by Edmund Burke - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 636 pages
...the'opprefljon, impoverifhment, and degradation of a people, and the debafement, in them, of human nature itfelf, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of...of the effect of the medicines we compound. We are fure of our poifons. My opinion ever was fin which I heartily agreed w'nb ;hof; that admired the old... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...impoverifhment, AnA degradation of a people, and the debafement, in them, of human nature itl'elf, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of...of the effect of the medicines we compound. We are fure of our poifons. My opinion ever was (in which I heartily agreed with thofe that admired the old... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 390 pages
...oppreffion, impoverimment, and degradation of a people, and the debafement, in them, of human nature itfelf, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of...of the effect of the medicines we compound. We are fure of our poifons. My opinion ever was (in which I heartily agree with thofe that admired the old... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 408 pages
...oppreffion, impoverifhment, and degradation of a people, and the debafement, in them, of human nature itfelf, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of...thing humiliating enough, that we are doubtful of the efFecb of the medicines we compound. We are fure of our poifons. My opinion ever was (in which I heartily... | |
 | 1917 - 436 pages
...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, the new Irish Party, led by Flood, Grattan, and Charlemont,... | |
 | Francis Plowden - 1805 - 482 pages
...Langrishe, to whom Mr. Burke thus wrote with reference to it (p. 87) " It is a thing humi ' Hating enough, that we are doubtful of the effect of the medicines we com' pound. We are sure of our poisons. My opinion ever was (in which I ' heartily agreed witb those,... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - 1810 - 588 pages
...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 HL By these acts, if the eldest, or any other son,... | |
 | 1840 - 606 pages
...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 they could. It was the mystic symbol of their rule ; and... | |
 | Francis Plowden - 1812 - 652 pages
...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 to clear themselves of responsibility, by resigning their... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1818 - 248 pages
...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. — Page ISO. At CREMONA the regiments of DILLON and BURKE... | |
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