 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - Počet stránok 560
...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,... | |
 | Frederick York Powell, Thomas Frederick Tout - 1908 - Počet stránok 394
...crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement, here a bit of black stone,...white ; patriots and courtiers ; king's friends and repub* licans ; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies, that it was indeed a very... | |
 | Horace Bleackley - 1925 - Počet stránok 392
...Grafton's ministry was a heterogeneous collection, "a tesselated pavement without cement," sneered Burke, "here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white, ... a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on." An even more serious... | |
 | 1912 - Počet stránok 890
...destruction? Is it not. In fact, an ingenious mosaic, cunningly compacted and curiously inlaid, a "tesselated pavement without cement — here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white,"1* but grotesquely lacking In consistency of principle, in unity of design, and coherence of... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1912 - Počet stránok 746
...speckled ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; here a bit of black stone, 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. (c)... | |
 | Percy Alexander MacMahon - 1921 - Počet stránok 136
...... ; 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; ... EDMUND BURKE, 1774, on American Taxation. PREFACE EDWARDS. You are a philosopher, Dr Johnson. I... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - Počet stránok 238
...by Burke's description of it as a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tessellated pavement without cement, that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand upon. There... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - Počet stránok 234
...by Burke's description of it as a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tessellated pavement without cement, that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand upon. There... | |
 | Claude Halstead Van Tyne - 1922 - Počet stránok 524
...indented and so whimsically dovetailed . . . so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic . . . here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white, patriots and courtiers, . . . Whigs and Tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed 244 CAUSES OF... | |
 | Alfred George Gardiner - 1923 - Počet stránok 642
...speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified...here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white (cheers and ironical cheers and- laughter) ; patriots and courtiers, King's friends and Republicans... | |
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He made an administration, so chequered 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 Mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement... 
