...and 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...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...

...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...

...so speckled ; he put together a piece of joining 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...

...that motley administration, which Mr. Burke ingeniously compared to a cabinet variously inlaid, or to a tesselated pavement without cement : ' here a bit...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.'...

...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...

...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...

...joinery ciossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a piece of diversified mosaic ; a tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit 'of black stone, and there a bit of white ; papists and courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tones ; treacherous friends and...

...afterwards described this cabinet as "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...

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...sea-shore of Europe." His description of Chatham's administration is felicitous in another vein : " a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified...and there a bit of white — patriots and courtiers, kings, friends and republicans, whigs and tories," &c. In relation to the English clubs of French sympathizers,...