 ... indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends, and...  Life of ... Edmund Burke, revised by the author - Page 93by sir James Prior - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsureto stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other, and... | |
 | William Belsham - Great Britain - 1795 - 496 pages
...patriots aud courtiers, king's friends and republicans, Whigs and Tories, treacherous m*. frjC|Kls and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious...but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. When his face was hid but for a moment, his whole system was on a wide sea, without chart or compass,... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 pages
...Whigs and Tories; treacherous friends and open enemies;—that it was indeed « very curious shew, but utterly unsafe to touch, 'and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom h? 1:ad assorted at the same boards stared at each other, and were obliged to ask, " Sir, your name... | |
 | Arthur Aikin - 1803 - 996 pages
...courtiers; king's friends and republicans; whig? and tones ; treacherous iriends and open rncmics; that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on." The same author pursuing the subject, has observed. " when he. had executed his plan, he had not an inch... | |
 | 1867 - 636 pages
...such a tessellated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; that it was indeed a very curious show; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.' We must not omit, however, to bring into view the share taken by the House of Lords in the intricate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies : that it was indeed a very curious...on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other, and were obliged to ask, " Sir, your name ? — Sir, you have the advantage... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies : that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsnre to stain! on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other,... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious...on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other, and were obliged to ask, " Sir, your name ? — Sir, you have the advantage... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...white; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious...on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other, and were obliged to ask, " Sir, your name ? — Sir, you have the advantage... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; whigs and -tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious...but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on. In consequence of this arrangement, the confusion was such that his own principles could not possibly... | |
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