 | Horace Bleackley - Courtesans - 1925 - 392 pages
...Grafton's ministry was a heterogeneous collection, "a tesselated pavement without cement," sneered Burke, "here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white, ... a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on." An even more serious... | |
 | William Murison - English language - 1910 - 416 pages
...Ministry, 1766. 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... | |
 | Sir Charles Grant Robertson - Great Britain - 1911 - 640 pages
...to the 1 " 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... | |
 | Henry Wordsworth Clemesha - Preston (Lancashire, England) - 1912 - 398 pages
...before 1. 'He made an administration, BO checkered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery, »o crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a, cabinet...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... | |
 | Literature - 1912 - 890 pages
...destruction? Is it not. In fact, an ingenious mosaic, cunningly compacted and curiously inlaid, a "tesselated pavement without cement — here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white,"1* but grotesquely lacking In consistency of principle, in unity of design, and coherence of... | |
 | Arthur Donald Innes - Great Britain - 1914 - 298 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 there a bit of white ; patriots... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - Books - 1917 - 582 pages
...taxation : 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 there a bit of white; Patriots and... | |
 | Canada. Parliament. House of Commons - Canada - 1918 - 1220 pages
...Burke said : 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... | |
 | Godfrey Locker Lampson - Great Britain - 1918 - 628 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... | |
 | Percy Alexander MacMahon - Mathematical recreations - 1921 - 136 pages
...COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1921 307582 ... ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed ;...mosaic ; such a tessellated pavement without cement; ... EDMUND BURKE, 1774, on American Taxation. PREFACE EDWARDS. You are a philosopher, Dr Johnson. I... | |
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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... 
