 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...whimsically dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; euch ing flies, thou lockest in thy beauty from the clouds, * tremblest at the gates of the ; patriote and courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends... | |
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1845 - 558 pages
...; 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...; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies : that it was indeed a very curious show 5 but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 554 pages
...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...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... | |
 | People - 1845 - 346 pages
...dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such a tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone,...; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ;— and that it wa» VOL. III. S indeed a very eurious show, but utterly unsafe to touch,... | |
 | George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - History - 1845 - 422 pages
...diversified mosaick : such a tesselated basement without cement; here a bit of blackstone, and here a bit of white; patriots and courtiers ; king's friends...treacherous friends and open enemies—that it was a very curious show—but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on." To such an administration*... | |
 | 1846 - 578 pages
...; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic...; 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 upon.... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...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...; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; — that it was, indeed, a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 546 pages
...that motley administration, which Mr. Burke ingeniously compared to a cabinet variously inlaid, or to a tesselated pavement without cement : ' here a bit...republicans; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies : so that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - Judges - 1846 - 584 pages
...into existence by Lord Chatham, and which Burke so pleasantly depicted as " a cabinet so curiously inlaid — such a piece of diversified mosaic —...here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white," — and of which the only chance of coherence lay in the controlling genius of its framer, as soon... | |
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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 ; here... 
