 | J. R. Miller - Great Britain - 1844 - 742 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 and courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigeand lories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselatcd pavement without cement, here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers ; king 's friends and republicans ; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that... | |
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 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 boards, stared at each other, and were obliged... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 554 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 boards, stared at each other, and were obliged... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1845 - 558 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...open enemies : that it was indeed a very curious show 5 but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same... | |
 | People - 1845 - 346 pages
...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...and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ;— and that it wa» VOL. III. S indeed a very eurious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure... | |
 | 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...republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies—that it was a very curious show—but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on." To... | |
 | George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1845 - 478 pages
...king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; 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* was opposed — the true and faithful Rockingham party — Conway only... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 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...show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards stared at each other, and were obliged to... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 546 pages
...ingeniously compared to a cabinet variously inlaid, or to a tesselated pavement without cement : ' here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots...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 on.'... | |
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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, —... 
