 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 558 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 552 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... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 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...patriots and courtiers, King's friends and Republicans, that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on. The colleagues... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 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...patriots and courtiers, King's friends and Republicans, that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on. The colleagues... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 498 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 560 pages
...Burke's graphic picture of Chatham's last piebald ministry, where he compares it to a piece of mosaic, " here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white," and humorously depicts the consternation of men, who had been all their lives libelling each other,... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1904 - 566 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... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1905 - 262 pages
...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...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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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 tesselated pavement without cement ;... 
