...can scarcely show a parallel, unless it be the case of the Moriscos in Spain. "It was," says Burke, "a complete system full of coherence and consistency;...was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance and was as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people and the debasement...

...approval Burke's arraignment to -the effect that the treatment ot Irish Catholics under the Penal Code was "a complete system full of coherence and consistency...was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and was as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement...

...tyrants, who have disgraced humanity, are less cruel and vexatious. They were, as Mr. Burke remarks, 'a complete system, full of coherence and consistency, well digested, and well contrived in all its parts: a machine of wise, and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the...

...intermission for two generations:" Lecky, Eighteenth Century, II., 389-91. With reference to the Penal Code : "It was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency;...composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and deliberate contrivance and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of a people,...

...the Catholics of Ireland remarked: You abhorred it, as I did, for its vicious perfection. For I must do it justice; it was a complete system, full of coherence...contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, 2O impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself...

...the Catholics of Ireland remarked: You abhorred it, as I did, for its vicious perfection. For I must do it justice; it was a complete system, full of coherence...machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well f1tted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them,...

...moral and political prudence'. His description of the Irish Penal system is worth recall: 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,...

...Burke had ascribed to the penal laws to which the Irish had been subjected a century and more earlier: 'A machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and...well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradanon ot a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from...

...cruelty. ' I abhorred it,' writes Burke, in reference to the code, 'lor its vicious perfection. For I must do it justice ; it was a complete system full of coherence...machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well litttíd for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them...