 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
 | Edward Mangin - Authors, English - 1841 - 234 pages
...BOOKS, BY THE REV. EDWARD MANGIN, AUTHOR OF "PLKASURK3 ARISING PROM A LOVE OF BOUKS.' " A TS8SELATED PAVEMENT WITHOUT CEMENT : HERE A BIT OF BLACK STONE, AND THERE A BIT OP WHITE." Burkfi Character o/ Lord Chatham. LONDON: EDWARD LUMLEY, 56, CHANCERY LANE. MDCCCXLl. LONDON:... | |
 | Edward Thornton - India - 1842 - 632 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...tesselated pavement without cement, here a bit of black CHAP. but no change in the policy maintained towards the — East-India Company. A bill was brought... | |
 | John Bowring, Lewin Bentham Bowring - Authors, English - 1843 - 470 pages
...speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a 1756. 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... | |
 | John Russell (4th duke of Bedford.) - 1843 - 518 pages
...speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a 1756. 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 Poulett Scrope - Canada - 1843 - 542 pages
...and speckled; had put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically 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, and there a bit of white ; patriots... | |
 | Robert Peel - Great Britain - 1843 - 504 pages
...ministry, referring to which Mr. Burke spoke of the cabinet as being " like a tesselated pavement, — here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; that it was most dangerous to look on, and most dangerous to handle. It was of exquisite workmanship,... | |
 | J. R. Miller - Great Britain - 1844 - 742 pages
...words of Burke : " He put together a piere 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 ; whigeand lories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it... | |
 | Irishman - 1844 - 254 pages
...speckled — he put together a piece of joinery so craftily indented and whimsically dove-tailed — a cabinet so variously inlaid — such a piece of...and there a bit of white — patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans — whigs and tories — treacherous friends and open enemies — that... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...therefore, except to call upon Pitt to form an administration. He did so, " and produced," says Burke, " such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated...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 Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...whimsically dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; euch ing flies, thou lockest in thy beauty from the clouds, * tremblest at the gates of the ; patriote and courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends... | |
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