 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...  William Pitt, Earl of Chatham - Page 183by Albert von Ruville - 1907Full view - About this book
 | 1883 - 666 pages
...is how Burke described it : " He made an administration so chequered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically...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... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...they belonged, to their public views, or to their private feuds. "He had put together," says Burke, "a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1885 - 66 pages
...in the mouth of Cato. SO. He made an administration,53 so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically...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... | |
 | Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1885 - 812 pages
...speech on American taxation, "so chequered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so closely 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;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 pages
...DESCRIPTION OF LORD CHATHAM'S MINISTRY. He made an administration so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically...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... | |
 | Austin Phelps - Theology - 1886 - 358 pages
...Edmund Burke's celebrated caricature of Lord Chatham's coalition ministry. " He made an administration so checkered and speckled, a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed, such a tessellated pavement without cement, here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white, patriots... | |
 | English literature - 1887 - 958 pages
...afraid, are for ever incurable. He made an administration, so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically...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... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1891 - 648 pages
...afterwards Burke drew the following memorable and scarcely overcharged portrait — " He put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically...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... | |
 | John Goss - Oratory - 1891 - 272 pages
...formed his cabinet, he said:— "He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically...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,... | |
 | William Greenough Thayer Shedd - Church group work - 1891 - 468 pages
...of Lord Chatham's cabinet : " He made an administration so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented, and whimsically...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... | |
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