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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature - Page 432
1803
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 10

1821 - 778 pages
...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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 10

1821 - 800 pages
...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 " We do not mean here that it is ever absolutely...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volume 3

1823 - 584 pages
...so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement, here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...courtiers; king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

1823 - 428 pages
...variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement, here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

1823 - 428 pages
...so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement, here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and lories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly...
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The History of England, During the Reign of George III, Volume 1

James Robins - 1824 - 514 pages
...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...courtiers ; King's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous i run-Is and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly...
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Memoir of the life and character of ... Edmund Burke; with specimens of his ...

Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white...courtiers ; King's friends and Republicans ; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly...
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The bagman's bioscope

William Bayley (of Yorkshire.) - 1824 - 392 pages
...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...courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and lories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a curious show ; but utterly unsafe...
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Elegant Extracts: Or Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose

Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 pages
...diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and (here m to his purposes ; and, partly from the ascendant of his vehement disposition, tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly...
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The History of Great Britain from the Death of George II. to the Coronation ...

J. R. Miller - 1825 - 490 pages
...variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such at es sola ted pavement, without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white...courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly...
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