| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsureto stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other, and... | |
| William Belsham - Great Britain - 1795 - 496 pages
...patriots aud courtiers, king's friends and republicans, Whigs and Tories, treacherous m*. frjC|Kls and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious...utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. When his face was hid but for a moment, his whole system was on a wide sea, without chart or compass, whirled... | |
| 1867 - 636 pages
...such a tessellated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; that it was indeed a very curious show; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.' We must not omit, however, to bring into view the share taken by the House of Lords in the intricate... | |
| Arthur Aikin - 1803 - 996 pages
...courtiers; king's friends and republicans; whig? and tones ; treacherous iriends and open rncmics; that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on." The same author pursuing the subject, has observed. " when he. had executed his plan, he had not an... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies : that it was indeed a very curious...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,... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies : that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsnre to stain! on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other,... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...white; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious...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,... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious...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,... | |
| Oratory - 1808 - 546 pages
...were sure to predominate. When he had executed his plan, he had not an inch of ground to stand upon. When he had accomplished his scheme of administration, he was no longer a minister. When his face was hid but for a monent, his whole system was on a wide sea, without chart or compass.... | |
| William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; whigs and -tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious...but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand on. In consequence of this arrangement, the confusion was such that his own principles could not possibly... | |
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