| People - 1845 - 346 páginas
...dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such a tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone,...and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ;— and that it wa» VOL. III. S indeed a very eurious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure... | |
| George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1845 - 422 páginas
...diversified mosaick : such a tesselated basement without cement; here a bit of blackstone, and here a bit of white; patriots and courtiers ; king's friends...republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies—that it was a very curious show—but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on." To... | |
| 1846 - 578 páginas
...dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement, without cement ; here a bit of black stone,...and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show; but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand upon. The colleagues whom he had assorted at... | |
| Henry Wordsworth Clemesha - 1912 - 398 páginas
...dovetailed ; a, cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement : here a bit of black stone...open enemies ; that it was, indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.' Speech on American Taxation, 1774. and... | |
| 1912 - 890 páginas
...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 - 746 páginas
...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)... | |
| Basil Williams - 1913 - 450 páginas
...whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet variously inlaid ; a piece of diversified mosaic ; a teaselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone...and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies — so Burke described it in the speech which, however, also contained the noble tribute to Lord Chatham's... | |
| Edward Salmon - 1914 - 302 páginas
...variously Life of Admiral Saunders inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone...open enemies, that it was, indeed, a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on." It was not the ministry which Pitt would... | |
| Arthur Donald Innes - 1914 - 298 páginas
...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,...and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1917 - 582 páginas
...whimsically 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,...treacherous friends and open enemies; that it was indeed a curious shew; But utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. I believe that it is in passages... | |
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