In violation of his oath he issued a treasonable proclamation, in which he said, "You are called upon to abjure the iniquitous government of Peter Stuyvesant over the inhabitants residing on Long Island.
But eventually they realized that it was iniquitous to make these men lose half their day every day simply because they, the Germans, were demanding an absolutely illegal thing.
Both these deputies expressed the opinion that it is iniquitous to punish the innocent in the place of the guilty.
All the ills that are or ever were, if they could be set to work by him, would not satisfy the desires of his iniquitous soul; and I could not in any length of time describe his nature to you, but I conclude.
As long as he lived, he deemed poverty a great vice, and nothing did he more industriously avoid: insomuch that, had he died less rich by one farthing, the more Iniquitous would he have appeared to himself.
In a word, iniquitous wealth increases, yet something is ever wanting to the incomplete fortune.
His diocese was laid waste by fire and sword, the Irish chieftains driven to arms by the iniquitous policy of the agents of Elizabeth, having made the southern districts of Ireland the theatre of their struggle.
July, 1492, commanding these parties under the usual penalties to desist from their iniquitous usurpation.
His apologists end by endeavoring to intimidate us with the frightful and iniquitous punishments that he reserves for those who are so audacious as to murmur.
What happened after I left no man will tell, though doubtless the resolutions adopted by the twenty men sitting on the forrums of ellum would vibrate through the Empire, and shake the British monarchy to its iniquitous base.
But now this one seems satisfied to call it an 'iniquitous scheme'.
Jex and Fluke have returned to their iniquitous allegiance, with six or eight others of lesser calibre, and it is reported and believed that Tubbs and Huffy are ready to go back.
The omnipotence of Napoleon, and the terror inspired by the name of Davoust, overcame all obstacles which might have opposed those iniquitous usurpations.
What could be more iniquitous than to attack me without a declaration of war?
Every thing is sacrificed to the army and Paris, and the people are robbed of their subsistence to supply an iniquitous metropolis, and a military force that awes and oppresses them.
With them, private rights are frequently violated, only to facilitate the means of public oppressions--and cruel and iniquitous decrees are rendered still more so by the mode of enforcing them.
With this view of the case, I could not remain in a profession which aided to carry out, in an iniquitous manner, iniquitous laws, and I therefore quitted it.
In league with a dishonest Parliament, you filched it from the people, and then, by the operation of an iniquitous law, you filched it a second time from my father.
Her iniquitous proceedings had hitherto been so warily managed between herself and her dupes, that no one else suspected her of error.
All these iniquitous measures were brought forward in Parliament by Sir John Scott--then Attorney-General, one of those North Britons who find the pleasantest prospect in Scotland is the road to London.
That was an instance of the strength of public opinion--of a most unjust and iniquitous public opinion.
Though some men hold bishoprics without such a process, according to the evil practices of these corrupt days, such cannot be the case long: nor were I one to follow such an iniquitous course.
If they draw the sword to carry out their own iniquitous schemes, theirs is the crime and the sacrilege.
A blow was struck at the iniquitous but common practice of letting a room where there had been dangerous infectious disorder, until it had been disinfected.
For a long time he has been burning to have his son know how to fight against all justice and right and to gain even the most iniquitous causes against his adversaries every one.
Verily, he would prefer to live in Egypt[564] than to have given this iniquitous verdict.
I have long desired to know the merits of that most cruel and iniquitous enactment, and this speech has made them clear as day.
But if they have an equal vote without bearing equal burthens, a confederation upon such iniquitous principles will never last long.
It was worked out in the iniquitous "Treaty of Dover" (May, 1670).
This iniquitous step roused public feeling; it was said that liberty was at an end if the ministry could appoint members of Parliament in defiance of the votes of the electors.
On the basis of the two combined, he strove to build up a party, new in fact if not in name, from the scattered knots and sections of politicians who had united to oppose the iniquitous coalition of Fox and North.
He had felt a subtle, dark, and murmurous presence penetrate his being and fire him with a brief iniquitous lust: it, too, had slipped beyond his grasp leaving his mind lucid and indifferent.
It broke from him like a wail of despair from a hell of sufferers and died in a wail of furious entreaty, a cry for an iniquitous abandonment, a cry which was but the echo of an obscene scrawl which he had read on the oozing wall of a urinal.
