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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 ;... "
John Cassell's illustrated history of England. The text, to the reign of ... - Page 51
by Cassell, ltd - 1865
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The History of England, During the Reign of George III, Volume 1

James Robins - Great Britain - 1824 - 514 pages
...a cabinet 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...courtiers ; King's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous i run-Is and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly...
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Elegant Extracts: Or Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose

Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...whimsically dove- tailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic, such saw two women, of a larger stature than ordin (here a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ;...
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The History of Great Britain from the Death of George II. to the Coronation ...

J. R. Miller - Great Britain - 1825 - 490 pages
...tailed ; a cabinet »o variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such at es sola ted pavement, without cement ; here a bit of black stone,...courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly...
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An Essay on Junius and His Letters: Embracing a Sketch of the Life and ...

Benjamin Waterhouse - Great Britain - 1831 - 482 pages
...rendered famous by Mr. Burke's description of it, as a piece of diversified Mosaic—a mere tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone,...courtiers ; " king's friends " and republicans ; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies. While Lord Chatham was sick at Bath, and his recovery...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 33

Scotland - 1833 - 1034 pages
...and whimsically dove-tailed, a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement, here a bit of...courtiers, king's friends and republicans, Whigs and Tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...and whimsically dove-tailed; a cabinet M> variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified Mosaick; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of...courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...dove-tailed ; a cabinet »o ' 170 171 inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaick ; such a tesstlatcd pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and rourtiets, king's friends and republicans ; whigs .mil lories ; treacherous friends and open enemies...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...whimsically dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously 170 171 inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaick ; such t yet exhausted. He had yet another farthing-candle lories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly...
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Memoir of the Life and Character of Edmund Burke: With Specimens of His ...

Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 pages
...and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit...courtiers ; King's friends and republicans ; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly...
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The History of England, Volume 3

Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 568 pages
...which was ingeniously compared by Mr. Burke to an inlaid cabinet, or a tesselated pavement, with " here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white...courtiers; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies." The duke of Grafton was placed at the head of * There...
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