 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 ; here...  The Southern literary messenger - Page 2761849Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1839 - 746 pages
...then read the extract, in which Mr. Burke spoke of the Cabinet as being " like a tessalated pavement, here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white ; that it was most curious to look upon, and most dangerous to handle. It was of exquisite workmanship... | |
 | George Croly - Politicians - 1840 - 334 pages
...He (Lord Chatham) put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed, a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified...and there a bit of white, patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, Whigs and Tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, that it was... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 658 pages
...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...and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends, and republicans; Whigs and Tories; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...He (Lord Chatham) put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed, a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified...and there a bit of white, patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, Whigs and Tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, that it was... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 536 pages
...dove-tailed: a cabinet to variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tessellated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone,...and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; whig* and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1840 - 652 pages
...32 and 33. " crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabi- ™, " net so variously inlaid ; here a bit of black stone, and " there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers ; King's 1757 . " friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacher" ous friends, and open enemies... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1840 - 522 pages
...chequered 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 tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of «bile ; patriots... | |
 | 1840 - 530 pages
...chequered 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 tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of nhile; patriots... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1841 - 548 pages
...and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified...and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies : that it... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1841 - 834 pages
...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 ; nonrahlc Willinm Kit, Esq. and his heirs male the dignity of a Viscount aud Earl of Great Britain,... | |
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