| Robert Peel - 1843 - 504 páginas
...ministry, referring to which Mr. Burke spoke of the cabinet as being " like a tesselated pavement, — here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; that it was most dangerous to look on, and most dangerous to handle. It was of exquisite workmanship,... | |
| George Poulett Scrope - 1843 - 542 páginas
...and speckled; had 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... | |
| J. R. Miller - 1844 - 742 páginas
...of Burke : " He put together a piere of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified...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 - 738 páginas
...whimsically dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; euch ing flies, thou lockest in thy beauty from the clouds, * tremblest at the gates of the ; patriote and courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented, and whimsically dove-tailed ; a taph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a tesselatcd pavement without cement, here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1845 - 558 páginas
...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... | |
| George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1845 - 422 páginas
...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... | |
| People - 1845 - 346 páginas
...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... | |
| Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 546 páginas
...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.'... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1846 - 708 páginas
...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... | |
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