 He made an administration, so checkered 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; here...  The Quarterly Review - Page 378edited by - 1927Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...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 ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, king's... | |
 | William Belsham - 1795 - 496 pages
...speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented, aml 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 and there a HOOK bit of white; patriots aud courtiers, king's... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 pages
...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 a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white—patriots and courtiers ; King's... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 pages
...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 a bit of black stone and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, king's... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 436 pages
...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 courtiers, king's... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...speckled; he put together a piece of joinery, so ct-ossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cahinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement, here a hit of black stouc and there a hit of white ; patriots and courtiers, king's... | |
 | John Adams - 1813 - 324 pages
...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 ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white : patriots and courtiers ; king's... | |
 | William Playfair - 1814 - 538 pages
...he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and so whimsically dove tailed; a cabinet s« 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 courtiers; king's... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 540 pages
...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 a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers; king's... | |
 | 1833 - 1006 pages
...Chatham) put together a piece of joinery BO crossly indented and 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 and there a bit of white, patriots and courtiers, king's... | |
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