...had made an administration so checkered and speckled; had put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed; a cabinet so...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...

...ministry, referring to which Mr. Burke spoke of the cabinet as being " like a tesselated pavement, — here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; that it was most dangerous to look on, and most dangerous to handle. It was of exquisite workmanship,...

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...made an administration so chequered and so speckled ; he put together a piece of joining so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so...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...

...immortalized by Mr. Burke's painting, " 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 blackstone, and here a bit of white;...

...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...

...into existence his motley administration — pleasantly depicted by Burke, as " a cabinet so curiously inlaid — such a piece of diversified mosaic —...here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white, which had a chance of coherence only from the controlling genius of its framer" — when by fresh and...

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