 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 416 pages
...made an administration," said Burke, "so chequered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 pages
...incurable. He made an administration, so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of oinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed ;...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... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1902 - 514 pages
...an administration," said Burke, " so chequered and speckled — he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a...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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 560 pages
...Burke's graphic picture of Chatham's last piebald ministry, where he compares it to a piece of mosaic, " here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white," and humorously depicts the consternation of men, who had been all their lives libelling each other,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 534 pages
...cabinet : "He made an administration so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a...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... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - Orators - 1904 - 566 pages
...incurable. He made an administration so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed, a...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1905 - 156 pages
...incurable. He made an administration, so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed ;...inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and 30 there a bit of white ; patriots... | |
 | Albert von Ruville - Great Britain - 1907 - 468 pages
...which it evoked. Edmund Burke wrote of it that it was ' so checkered and speckled, a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed, a...cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaick ; such a tesselated basement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and here a bit of... | |
 | Albert von Ruville - Great Britain - 1907 - 470 pages
...which it evoked. Edmund Burke wrote of it that it was 'so checkered and speckled, a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed, a...cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaick ; such a tesselated basement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and here a bit of... | |
 | Frederick York Powell, Thomas Frederick Tout - Great Britain - 1908 - 394 pages
...crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement, here a bit of black stone,...white ; patriots and courtiers ; king's friends and repub* licans ; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies, that it was indeed a very... | |
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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... 
