...the Great Seal of England, was promoted the unparalleled Penal Code, described by Edmund Burke as " a complete system, full of coherence and .consistency,...well digested and well composed in all its parts; a machine of elaborate contrivance, as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation...

...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...

...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 of 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...

...supposed to infuse into its sects a kind of venom unknown in other places. ... it (the penal code) was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency,...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." Even Blackstone, the author of the Commentaries, says— " This is a short summary of the laws against...

..." It had a vicious perfection—full of coherence and consistency, well digested and well disposed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." The history of the diocese of Meath shows that this statement—however theoretically true it may have...

..." a complete system full of coherence and consistency, well digested and composed in all its parts a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." It was not merely the persecution of a religion, it was an attempt to degrade and demoralise a whole...

..." a complete system full of coherence and consistency, well digested and composed in all its parts a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance; and as...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." It was not merely the persecution of a religion, it was an attempt to degrade and demoralise a whole...

...To it in particular we may justly apply what Edmund Burke said of the system to which it belonged: ' It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance,...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.' When it was found that the firm resolve of the parents could not be overcome, it was fondly hoped that...

...iniquitous provisions of the enactments. Their character is well described by the statesman Edmund Burke: "It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance,...ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." Mosheim admits that its measures were "designed for extermination." Elsewhere, with reference to the...