 He made an administration, so checkered 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 Mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here...  Burke - Side 30av John Morley - 1879 - 216 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 sider
...piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and... | |
 | William Belsham - 1795 - 496 sider
...piece of joinery so crossly indented, aml whimsically dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement, here a bit of black stone and there a HOOK bit of white; patriots aud courtiers, king's friends and... | |
 | Arthur Aikin - 1803 - 996 sider
...courtiers; king's friends and republicans; whig? and tones ; treacherous iriends and open rncmics; that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on." The same author pursuing the subject, has observed. " when he. had executed his plan, he had not... | |
 | 1867 - 636 sider
...such a tessellated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; that it was indeed a very curious show; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.' We must not omit, however, to bring into view the share taken by the House of Lords in the intricate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 522 sider
...courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies : that 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 boards, stared at each other, and were obliged... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 sider
...courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies : that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsnre to stain! on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other,... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 sider
...courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies ; that 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 boards, stared at each other, and were obliged... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 sider
...courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies ; that 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 boards, stared at each other, and were obliged... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 sider
...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 a bit of black stone and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 404 sider
...courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies : that 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 boards, stared at each other, and were obliged... | |
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