 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 pages
...parties. ' That is not quite true,' said Johnson ; ' I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.'" — ARTHUR MURPHY'S Essay on the Life and Genius of Dr. Johnson, p. 43-45. But it would appear as if... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1884 - 538 pages
...parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it." The sale of the magazine was greatly increased by the parliamentary debates, which were continued by... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 534 pages
...parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved' appearances tolerably well ; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it." The sale of the 'magazine was greatly increased by the parliamentary debates, which were continued... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 376 pages
...impartiality he replied, " That is not quite true ; I saved appearances tolerably well, but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it" About this time JOHNSON made the acquaintanceship of Savage, the reputed son of Lord Rivers, who had... | |
 | 1885 - 290 pages
...great political parties the balance of eloquence and of argument, whereupon he replied that he took care that the " Whig dogs should not have the best of it," and that was a sentiment in which the noble lord who was member for Middlesex would, no doubt, very heartily... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 pages
...of political partisanship was unworthy of so great a philosopher. Like Dr. Johnson, he always took care "that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." Still, with all its defects, his History is a great work; and if later writers have superseded it as... | |
 | Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Charles Henry Edward Carmichael - 1886 - 870 pages
...Gentleman's Magazine ' from November, 1740,10 February, 1743, is said to have confessed that 'he took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' l In a debate on the subject in 1738, initiated by Mr. Speaker Complaints Onslow, Sir Robert Walpole... | |
 | Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 pages
...parties. But Johnson would not agree to this. " I saved," he said, "appearances tolerably well, but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." Besides the parliamentary reports, he wrote at this time several short biographies and other contributions... | |
 | Augustus Wood Clason - 1888 - 190 pages
...are reported, how fully or fairly it is impossible now to say. If Johnson, reporting Parliament, took care " that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it," lesser men, if they had prejudices (and who is without them ?), can not be hoped to have been perfectly... | |
 | 1888 - 636 pages
...parties." " That is not quite true, sir," said Johnson. " I saved appearances well enough ; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it ! " We have now arrived at the era distinguished in the newspaper history of the period by the appearance... | |
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I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it. 
