 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...both 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." ' Murphy's Life of Johnson, p. 343. Murphy, we must not forget, wrote from memory, for there is no... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...ridiculous ' (ib. p. 809). Later on, Johnson in his reports ' saved appearances tolerably well ; but took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it ' (Murphy's Johnson, p. 45). It was but a few days after he became a contributor to the Magazine that... | |
 | Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - 1820 - 540 pages
...genuine. He owned that he was not quite impartial in dealing out his reason and rhetoric, but " took care that the whig dogs should not have the best of it.'' His attachment to the tory, or rather Jacobite party, was further shown by an humorous pamphlet in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pages
...genuine. He owned that he was not quite impartial in dealing out his reason and rhetoric, but " took care that the whig dogs should not have the best of it." - His attachment to the tory, or rather Jacobite, party was further shewn by an humorous pamphlet in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 pages
...parties. ' That ig 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." In the year 17 ^2, that is in the thirty-third year of his age, Johnson was employed by Mr Thomas Osbome,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 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." * This strong bias in favour of a party runs through the whole of his political works, though not so... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 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 gijeatly increased by the Parliamentary Debates, which were continued... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...parties. "That is not quite true," sard Johnson; " I saved appearances tolerably well ; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it."* This strong bias in favour of a party rans through the whote of his political works, though ~ s ' O... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...both 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 *." Although the speeches, in the course of events, have lost their original interest, yet they possess... | |
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Johnson long afterwards owned that, though he had saved appearances, he had taken care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it... 
