 | J. R. Miller - 1825 - 490 pages
...tailed ; a cabinet »o variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such at es sola ted pavement, without cement ; here a bit of black stone,...show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to M.iud ou. — When he had accomplished his scheme of administration, he was no longer a minister."... | |
 | William Jones - 1825 - 452 pages
...piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; such a strange combination of patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans,...Tories, treacherous friends and open enemies," that no reasonable hopes could be entertained of continued concert or compact durability. In the course... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 780 pages
...hit of hlack stone, there a hit of white ; patriots and courtiers ; king's friends and repuhlicans ; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show, hut utterly uusafc to touch, and unsure to stand upon." However rhetorical this description might he,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 510 pages
...piece of diversified Mosaick ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black atone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers,...treacherous friends and open enemies : that it was indeed a verj curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had... | |
 | 1826 - 450 pages
...without cement ; here a bit of black flone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers; kind's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories; treacherous...and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious ihow, but utterly unfafe to touch, and unfure to ftand on. The colleagues whom he had aiTorted at the... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 474 pages
...piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; such a strange combination of patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans,...Tories, treacherous friends and open enemies," that no reasonable hopes could be entertained of continued concert or compact durability. In the course... | |
 | Benjamin Waterhouse - 1831 - 482 pages
...rendered famous by Mr. Burke's description of it, as a piece of diversified Mosaic—a mere tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone,...and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies. While Lord Chatham was sick at Bath, and his recovery despaired of, the administration was without... | |
 | 1833 - 1034 pages
...and whimsically dove-tailed, a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement, here a bit of...show, 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaick ; such a tKvlated piivement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there...enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utlerly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same Ijoards,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 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,...courtiers; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tones ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly... | |
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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, —... 
