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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ... - Page 334
by Alexander Chalmers - 1813
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pages
...incurable. He made an administration, so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a...so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaick ; such a tesselated pavement without' cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of...
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The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best ..., Volume 2

William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 pages
...incurable. He made an administration, so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a...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...
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Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Earl ..., Volume 3

John Almon - 1810 - 404 pages
...He made an administration (in 1766) so checkered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a...variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic t such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white;...
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Anecdotes of the life of ... William Pitt, earl of Chatham [by J ..., Volume 3

John Almon - 1810 - 436 pages
...and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ja cabinet 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; patriots and...
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The Flowers of Modern History: Comprehending on a New Plan, the Most ...

John Adams - 1813 - 324 pages
...incurable. He made an administration so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so. crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed ;...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...
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The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: In the House of ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1816 - 540 pages
...incurable. He made an administration, so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a...inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic; such a tessalated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white; patriots and...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 6

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...affluence of imagery, describes it as" an administration so chequered and speckled ; a piece of joinery go crossly indented, and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet...inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic, such a teseelated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 33

1833 - 1006 pages
...dissolving it, were popularly caricatured by Burke. " He (Lord Chatham) put together a piece of joinery BO crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed, a cabinet...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...
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Biographia Hibernica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Worthies of ..., Volume 1

1821 - 508 pages
...the administration he had formed, and thus proceeds :—" He made an administration, s,q checquered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joining,...such a tessellated pavement without cement; here a hit of black stone, and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers; king's friends and republicans;...
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The Public and Private Life of His Late...Majesty, George the Third ...

Robert Huish - 1821 - 746 pages
...words. " He made an administration, so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a...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...
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