 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, —...  Selected Essays - Page 13by Abraham Hayward - 1879Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 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 - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; ™gs and tories ; treacherous friends and еPеi ™ unsure to stand on. The colleagues wsom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 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 lories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly... | |
 | George Wingrove Cooke - Great Britain - 1837 - 694 pages
...courtiers ; kings, friends, and republicans ; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies. It was, indeed, a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same board stared at each other, and were CHAP. obliged... | |
 | 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 - 650 pages
...joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement...; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. The colleagues, whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other, and were obliged... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 pages
...joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic; such a tesselated pavement...; but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same board stared at each other, and were obliged to... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 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...and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies." The duke of Grafton was placed at the head of * There was a general suspicion that he still in secret... | |
 | 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
...joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed, a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement...show, but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same board, stared at each other, and were obliged to... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed, a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement...show, but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same board, stared at each other, and were obliged to... | |
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