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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 ; here... "
The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ... - Page 334
by Alexander Chalmers - 1813
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 10

1821 - 778 pages
...more, is just Burke's character of Lord Chatham's last administration, — " a tesselated pavement, here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white, most beautiful to look at, but now utterly unsafe • Mre do not mean here that it is ever absolutely...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 10

1821 - 800 pages
...more, is just Burke's character of Lord Chatham's last administration, — "a tesselated pavement, here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white, most beautiful to look at, but now utterly unsafe " We do not mean here that it is ever absolutely...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

1823 - 428 pages
...itself, by his famous description ; " an administration, so checkered and speckled ; 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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Retrospective Review, Volume 7

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - 426 pages
...itself, by his famous description ; " an administration, so checkered and speckled ; 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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The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of ..., Volume 3

Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 494 pages
...administration thus formed would long remain embodied. It was (says Mr. Burke) " a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a...inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement;" such a strange combination of " patriots and courtiers, king's...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volume 3

1823 - 584 pages
...itself, by his famous description ; " an administration, so checkered and speckled; 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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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

1823 - 428 pages
...itself, by his famous description ; " an administration, so checkered and speckled ; 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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Memoir of the life and character of ... Edmund Burke; with specimens of his ...

Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...drew the following metnora* ble and not over.charged portrait.— " 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 bagman's bioscope

William Bayley (of Yorkshire.) - 1824 - 392 pages
...CHATHAM'S ADMINISTRATION FORMED IN 1766. " He^put together (says he) a piece of joinery, so crosbly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so...inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesaelated pavement, without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots...
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Elegant Extracts: Or Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose

Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 pages
...and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dove- tailed; @=@ < < <1@2@ < < < tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and (here a bit of white ; patriots...
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