 | Dionysius Cassius Longinus, Longinus - 1867 - 230 Seiten
...canonizes and sanctifies a great character," "he made an administration," he tells us, "so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery,...indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so curiously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement :... | |
 | George Henry Duncan Mathias - 1867 - 292 Seiten
...immortalized the handiwork of the newly-created Earl of Chatham. "He made an administration so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and so whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 Seiten
...measures, the effects of which, I am afraid, are forever incurable. He made an administration so checkered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery,...inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tessellated pavement without ce;ncnt; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white; patriots... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1869 - 584 Seiten
...measures, the effects of which, I am afraid, are forever incurable. He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so...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... | |
 | John Mitchel - 1869 - 316 Seiten
...ridiculed in his peculiar style the present cabinet — " An administration so checkered and speckled, a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically...inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tessellated pavement without cement, here a bit of black stone, there a bit of white," etc. But though... | |
 | Charles Duke Yonge - 1871 - 824 Seiten
...opinions. Some years afterwards, Burke described it as " an administration so chequered and speckled, a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically...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... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - 1872 - 284 Seiten
...ministry as peculiarly apposite — "An administration so checkered and speckled — a piece of joinering so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a...inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tessalated pavement without cement, here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white . . . that... | |
 | James Henley Thornwell - 1873 - 830 Seiten
...described by Burke. Your syntagma confcssionum would present a scene " so checkered and speckled ; a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically...here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white — that it might be indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on."... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 484 Seiten
...Holland House ; ' by Princess Marie Liehtenstein, vol. i. pp. 47-40. 1 ' He made an administration so chequered and speckled : he put together a piece...variously inlaid : such a piece of diversified mosaic : >uch a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white ;... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1874 - 550 Seiten
...Carringlon v. Paynt, 5 Ves Jr. 404 ; Lowndet v. Slant, Id. 649 ; Ware v. PolhM, II Ves. Jr. 280. vr. — 21 mosaic — such a tesselated pavement without cement...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... | |
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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 tessellated pavement without cement; here... 
