 I must do it justice ; it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested, and well com-, posed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Страница 1661917Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | William Henry Curran - 1858 - 694 страница
...seditious assemblies.'« — C. \ " You abhorred it, as I did, for its vicious perfection ; for I must do it justice, it was a complete system, full of coherence...and consistency, well digested and well composed in u!l its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression,... | |
 | sir John Thomas Gilbert - 1859 - 408 страница
...by Lord Chancellor Clare as a motley crew of English adventurers, the unparalleled Penal Code : that complete system, full of coherence and consistency, well digested and well composed in all its parts ; a machine of elaborate contrivance, as well fitted, said Edmund Burke, "for the oppression, impoverishment,... | |
 | Anthony Cogan - 1867 - 584 страница
...enacted and renewed in violation of the Treaty of Limerick, says : " It had a vicious perfection — it was a complete system — full of coherence and consistency, well digested and well disposed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as .well fitted... | |
 | John Hughes - 1864 - 820 страница
...lover of his Irish countrymen, lie says — "It had" (that is the Penal Code) "a vicious perfection. It was a complete system — full of coherence and consistency; well digested and well disposed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for... | |
 | 1880 - 1118 страница
...Penal Code, as I did, for its vicious perfection," writes Burke to Sir Hercules Langrishe; "for I must do it justice. It was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well-digested and well-composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance,... | |
 | 1870 - 888 страница
...last " the god within him " burst forth, and he denounced the penal code of Protestant England as " A system full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts, a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment,... | |
 | John Nicholas Murphy - 1870 - 548 страница
...Penal Code, as I did, for its vicious perfection,' says our greatest political philosopher; 'for I must do it justice: it was a complete system, full of coherence and 1 9th William III. c. 8, AD 1607. ' Irish Statutes,' vol. iii. p. 349. " Ibid. consistency ; well digested... | |
 | 1875 - 1090 страница
...before wiib the calmness of concentrated passion as " well-digested and welldisposed in all its parts ; a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance and as well fitted for the oppre* sion, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature... | |
 | William B. Kirkpatrick - 1875 - 262 страница
...Roman Catholics. Such were some of the enactments of the Penal Code, which Edmund Burke describes " as a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and...for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation H of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted... | |
 | James Joseph Brennan - 1878 - 270 страница
...perfection—it was a complete system—full of coherence and consistency; well digested and well disposed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate...the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of the people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted... | |
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