 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...administration, so checkered and speckled ; 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, here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white ; patriots and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1823 - 494 pages
...embodied. It was (says Mr. Burke) " 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;" such a strange combination of " patriots and courtiers, king's... | |
 | 1823 - 584 pages
...administration, so checkered and speckled; 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, here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white ; patriots and... | |
 | James Robins - Great Britain - 1824 - 514 pages
...a cabinet so variously inlaid; such sv piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselsited pavement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers ; King's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous i run-Is and open enemies; that it... | |
 | William Bayley (of Yorkshire.) - Anecdotes - 1824 - 392 pages
...1766. " He^put together (says he) a piece of joinery, so crosbly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesaelated pavement, without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dove- tailed; @=@ < < <1@2@ < < < tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and (here a bit of white ; patriots... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...portrait.— " 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 a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots... | |
 | J. R. Miller - Great Britain - 1825 - 490 pages
...tailed ; a cabinet »o variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such at es sola ted pavement, without cement ; here a bit of black stone,...and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it... | |
 | William Jones - 1825 - 452 pages
...humorously described it as " a piece of joinery so crossly indented, and so whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; such a strange combination of patriots and courtiers, king's friends... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 474 pages
...humorously described it as " a piece of joinery so crossly indented, and so whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; such a strange combination of patriots and courtiers, king's friends... | |
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... a 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; patriots and courtiers; king's friends and republicans; Whigs and Tories; treacherous... 
