 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...  Southern Literary Messenger - Page 2761849Full view - About this book
 | 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 there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers ; " king's friends " and republicans ; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies. While... | |
 | 1833 - 1034 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...indented and whimsically dove-tailed; a cabinet M> variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified Mosaick; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a...and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 pages
...dove-tailed ; a cabinet »o ' 170 171 inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaick ; such a tesstlatcd pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and rourtiets, king's friends and republicans ; whigs .mil lories ; treacherous friends and open enemies... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed ; tes, through ages, to the poor, for the rapine and injustice of a day. Wit tessellated pavement without cement, here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white; patriots... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...speckled; «c put together a piece of joinery, so crossly »denied and whimsically dove-tailed; a cahi*' hit of black sta=, and there a hit of white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 pages
...whimsically dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously 170 171 inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaick ; as not yet exhausted. He had yet another farthing-candle king's friends and republicans; whigs and lories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was... | |
 | George Wingrove Cooke - 1837 - 694 pages
...afterwards described this cabinet as "apiece 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, there a bit of white ; patriots and... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 pages
...portrait — • " 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... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1839 - 568 pages
...which was ingeniously compared by Mr. Burke to an inlaid cabinet, or a tesselated pavement, with " here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies." The duke... | |
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