 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
 | Ada Russell - 1922 - 210 pages
...statesman of the Seven Years' War) 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;... | |
 | Alfred George Gardiner - Great Britain - 1923 - 642 pages
...Churchill, now to Goschen : / . . . He made an Administration 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 tessellated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of... | |
 | Philip Guedalla - Literary Criticism - 1924 - 308 pages
...glorious riot of metaphor, has " made an administration, so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically...a piece of diversified Mosaick ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white . . . that it was indeed... | |
 | Hugh Alexander Law - English literature - 1926 - 328 pages
...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...so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such " a tesselated pavement without cement — here, a bit of black stone, there a bit of... | |
 | 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 - 1927 - 464 pages
...France of to-day is, in the words of Burke's famous description of the Chatham Cabinet, so chequered and speckled, a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed, so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement, here a bit of... | |
 | Robert W. Tucker, David C. Hendrickson - History - 1982 - 468 pages
...its successor. Although headed by a great man, the government of Lord Chatham — "an administration so checkered and speckled ... a piece of joinery so...whimsically dovetailed ... a cabinet so variously inlaid ... a piece of diversified mosaic ... a tessellated pavement without cement"16 — gave way to the... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - History - 1987 - 192 pages
...Chatham's cabinet-making of 1766: 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;... | |
 | Stephen H. Browne - History - 1993 - 172 pages
...depiction, it is best quoted at length: 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political Science - 2000 - 540 pages
...captive of his own contrivances: 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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