 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...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...courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and lories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1823 - 426 pages
...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...courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tones ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1823 - 494 pages
...of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement;" such a strange combination of " patriots and courtiers, king's friends, and republicans, Whigs and Tories, treacherous friends and the vacancies neither pleased the duke, nor materially strengthened the ministry; and the earl, harassed... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...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...; but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same board stared at each other and were obliged to... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and (here m to his purposes ; and, partly from the ascendant of his vehement disposition, on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards stared at each other, and were obliged to... | |
 | James Robins - Great Britain - 1824 - 514 pages
...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...friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous i run-Is and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and... | |
 | William Bayley (of Yorkshire.) - Anecdotes - 1824 - 392 pages
...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...courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and lories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a curious show ; but utterly unsafe... | |
 | J. R. Miller - Great Britain - 1825 - 490 pages
...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...show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to M.iud ou. — When he had accomplished his scheme of administration, he was no longer a minister."... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1825 - 780 pages
...hit of hlack stone, there a hit of white ; patriots and courtiers ; king's friends and repuhlicans ; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show, hut utterly uusafc to touch, and unsure to stand upon." However rhetorical this description might he,... | |
 | William Jones - 1825 - 452 pages
...piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; such a strange combination of patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans,...Tories, treacherous friends and open enemies," that no reasonable hopes could be entertained of continued concert or compact durability. In the course... | |
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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, —... 
