 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
 | William Howitt - 1846 - 376 pages
...joinery ciossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a piece of diversified mosaic ; a tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit 'of black stone, and there a bit of white ; papists and courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tones ; treacherous friends and... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 396 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...and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; — that... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1848 - 208 pages
...difficulty, succeeded in framing that Ministry which Burke some years afterwards so happily described as "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... | |
 | John Britton - 1848 - 168 pages
...afterwards described this cabinet as "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 white ; patriots... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1849 - 286 pages
...beautiful one gratifies the refined taste. ( Burke excelled in both. His images indicate some| times peculiar ingenuity and sometimes a poetical ' imagination....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... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1849 - 278 pages
...by the figures of arithmetic than the figures of rhetoric, unless he can get into the trade-winds, and then he may sail secure over Pactolean sands."...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... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1849 - 288 pages
...than the figures of rhetoric, unless he can get into the trade-winds, and then he may sail secure ov4r Pactolean sands." In a speech, referring to the apathetic...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... | |
 | 1849 - 602 pages
...therefore, except to call upon Pitt to form an administration. He did so, " and produced," says Burke, " emory, I will never consent to deprive the royal offspring...the heirs of the Princess Sophia, of their fairest king's friends and Republicans, Whigs and Tories, treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was,... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1849 - 296 pages
...another vein : " A cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tessellated pavement without cement — here a bit of black stone...courtiers, kings, friends, and republicans, whigs and tories," &c. In relation to the English clubs of French sympathizers, he says : "Do not imagine that... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - 528 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...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... | |
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