 | 1823 - 584 pages
...and whimsically dovetailed; a cabinet, so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement, here a bit of...; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on."* Many, however, as were the inconveniences both to the country and to Lord Chatham himself, which... | |
 | 1823 - 428 pages
...whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet, so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement, here a bit of...; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on."* Many, however, as were the inconveniences both to the country and to Lord Chatham himself, which... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1823 - 446 pages
...dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tessellated pavement without cement, here a bit of black stone,...show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. The colleagues, whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other, and were obliged... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - 426 pages
...whimsically dovetailed . a cabinet, so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement, here a bit of...courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tones ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly... | |
 | 1823 - 428 pages
...whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet, so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement, here a bit of...courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and lories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 494 pages
...of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement;" such a strange combination of " patriots and courtiers, king's friends, and republicans, Whigs and Tories, treacherous friends and the vacancies neither pleased the duke, nor materially strengthened the ministry; and the earl, harassed... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...whimsically dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit...; but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same board stared at each other and were obliged to... | |
 | William Bayley (of Yorkshire.) - 1824 - 392 pages
...dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesaelated pavement, without cement; here a bit of black stone,...courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and lories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a curious show ; but utterly unsafe... | |
 | James Robins - 1824 - 514 pages
...a cabinet so variously inlaid; such sv piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselsited pavement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white...friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous i run-Is and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 pages
...whimsically dove- tailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic, such saw two women, of a larger stature than ordin (here a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ;... | |
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He made an administration so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed, a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement, —... 
