...of this code—a code which Burke described as “well digested and well disposed in all its parts; a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as...for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation ot' a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted...

...decidedly as against Roman Catholics. . ^ Such was the Penal Code, which Edmund Burke describes as "a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and...impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the H debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man."*...

...as decidedly as against Roman Catholics. Such was the Penal Code, which Edmund Burke describes as " a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and...impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the H4 Chapters in Irish History. debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the...

...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 as...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...

...code —a code which Burke truly described as c well digested and well disposed in all its parts ; a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.' It was framed by a small minority of the nation for the oppression of the majority who remained faithful...

...abhor the old code. 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,...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man. It is a thing humiliating enough, that we are doubtful of the effect of the medicines we compound,—...

...justly regarded as one of the blackest pages in the history of persecution. In the words of Burke, ' It was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency,...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.' The judgment formed of it by one of the noblest representatives of English Toryism was very similar....

...justly regarded as one of the blackest pages in the history of persecution. In the words of Burke, ' It was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency,...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.' The judgment formed of it by one of the noblest representatives of English Toryism was very similar....

...in understanding the meaning of Edmund Burke's words when he said : " The code against the Catholics was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance; and...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." And, elsewhere: " To render men patient under the deprivation of all the rights of human nature, every...

...better described than in the words of Edmund Burke. " It was," says this distinguished statesman, " a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." On the accession of George I. of the house of Brunswick to the English throne, the Tories were driven...