 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 William H. Seward - Page 53by William Henry Seward - 1853Full view - About this book
 | John Nicholas Murphy - 1870 - 548 pages
...its parts. 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.'1 A melancholy illustration of the working of... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1871 - 388 pages
...all its parts ; 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.' It was framed by a small minority of the nation... | |
 | George Sigerson - 1871 - 356 pages
...its parts. 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." This being its character, it is of peculiar... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1871 - 382 pages
...all its parts ; 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.' It was framed by a small minority of the nation... | |
 | Martin Haverty - 1872 - 794 pages
...describes it, " 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."t * The admirable and unanswerable argument!... | |
 | 1873 - 718 pages
...all its parts ; 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." In the eyes of Mr. Froude, we need scarcely... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1873 - 544 pages
...Nature," — " 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." * Such, unquestionably, was the Fugitive Slave... | |
 | 1875 - 1090 pages
...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 it self, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man." Yet even Burke hardly gave credit... | |
 | John George MacCarthy - 1876 - 100 pages
...were shamefully, inexcusably, diabolically bad, as " well fitted," says Burke, " 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." It was against this system that Grattan set... | |
 | William B. Kirkpatrick - 1875 - 262 pages
...and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted 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 ingenuity of man." * It must be remembered, however, that these... | |
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