| 1821 - 778 páginas
...more, is just Burke's character of Lord Chatham's last administration, — " a tesselated pavement, here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white, most beautiful to look at, but now utterly unsafe • Mre do not mean here that it is ever absolutely... | |
| 1823 - 428 páginas
...so checkered and speckled ; a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet, so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified...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 - 1823 - 426 páginas
...so checkered and speckled ; a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed . a cabinet, so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified...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 - 1823 - 494 páginas
...embodied. It was (says Mr. Burke) " 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;" such a strange combination of " patriots and courtiers, king's friends, and republicans, Whigs and... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1823 - 446 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 mosaic ; such a tessellated pavement without cement, here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 páginas
...and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dove- tailed; a @ < < <1@2@ < < < (here a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ;... | |
| James Robins - 1824 - 514 páginas
...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...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.) - 1824 - 392 páginas
..." He^put together (says he) a piece of joinery, so crosbly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously 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... | |
| William Jones - 1825 - 452 páginas
...humorously described it as " a piece of joinery so crossly indented, and so whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece 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,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 780 páginas
...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,... | |
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