| Edmund Burke - 1905 - 156 páginas
...speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified...pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and 30 there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, King's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories... | |
| Frederic Harrison - 1905 - 262 páginas
...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 tessellated pavement without cement, here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white ; patriots... | |
| Albert von Ruville - 1907 - 470 páginas
...diversified mosaick ; such a tesselated basement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and here a bit of white; patriots and courtiers ; king's friends...treacherous friends and open enemies — that it was a very curious show — but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.' L Its coherence was secured... | |
| Albert von Ruville - 1907 - 468 páginas
...diversified mosaick ; such a tesselated basement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and here a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers ; king's friends...treacherous friends and open enemies — that it was a very curious show — but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.'1 Its coherence was secured... | |
| Frederick York Powell, Thomas Frederick Tout - 1908 - 394 páginas
...and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated...white ; patriots and courtiers ; king's friends and repub* licans ; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies, that it was indeed a very... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1908 - 342 páginas
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| Horace Bleackley - 1925 - 392 páginas
...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... | |
| 1912 - 890 páginas
...its 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... | |
| University of Calcutta - 1912 - 746 páginas
...speckled ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; here a bit of black stone, there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on. (c)... | |
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