 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...the effects of which, I am afraid, are for ever incurable. He made an administration, so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery,...very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsureto stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other, and... | |
 | William Belsham - Great Britain - 1795 - 496 pages
...patriots aud courtiers, king's friends and republicans, Whigs and Tories, treacherous m*. frjC|Kls and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious...but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. When his face was hid but for a moment, his whole system was on a wide sea, without chart or compass,... | |
 | Arthur Aikin - 1803 - 996 pages
...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 an... | |
 | 1867 - 636 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaick ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a...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 to ask,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaick ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here 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 - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaick ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a...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 to ask,... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaick ; such a tesselated pavement without' cement ; here...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 to ask,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...the effects of \\hich I am afraid, are for ever incurable. He made an administration, so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery,...but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on. In consequence of this arrangement, the confusion was such that his own principles could not possibly... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 436 pages
...and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ja cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified...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 to ask,... | |
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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, —... 
