 | Edward Thornton - 1842 - 604 pages
...like its predecessor, it was the subject of AD 1768. a protest in the Lords.* In the month of August stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers...show, but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand upon. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards stared at each other, and were obliged... | |
 | John Russell (4th duke of Bedford.) - 1843 - 518 pages
...dovetailed ; a 1756. cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone,...utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on." * This strange jumble of parties was no accident, but was the natural result of his character. He had... | |
 | John Russell Duke of Bedford - 1843 - 474 pages
...dovetailed ; a 1756. cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone,...utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on." * This strange jumble of parties was no accident, but was the natural result of his character. He had... | |
 | John Bowring, Lewin Bentham Bowring - 1843 - 470 pages
...dovetailed ; a 1756. cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone,...utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on." * This strange jumble of parties was no accident, but was the natural result of his character. He had... | |
 | George Poulett Scrope - 1843 - 542 pages
...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,...courtiers ; king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tones ; treacherous friends and enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe... | |
 | Robert Peel - 1843 - 504 pages
...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,... | |
 | Irishman - 1844 - 254 pages
...dove-tailed — a cabinet so variously inlaid — such a piece of diversified mosaic — such a tesselated pavement without cement — here a bit of black stone,...but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards stared at each other, and were obliged to ask,... | |
 | 1849 - 600 pages
...administration. He did so, " and produced," says Burke, " such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone,...utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on." Nor would the state of his own health permit the framer of the cabinet to watch, as it was right that... | |
 | J. R. Miller - 1844 - 742 pages
...dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement, without cement; here a bit of black stone,...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 - 746 pages
...dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselatcd he tomb, I rise and upbuild it again. ; king 's friends and republicans ; Whigs and Tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that... | |
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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, —... 
