 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...residences, he appears not to have resided in Exeter-street after liU return to London, in 1737.— ED.] e years? JOHNSON. Sir, I have no doubt that I can do it in t perusal of these de- ^™£-13g bates, we cannot but wonder at the powers that produced them. The authour... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 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 passage in Hawkins to which Boswell alludes, at p. 169., is as follows: — '' In the perusal of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 pages
...both parties. "That is not quite true," said Johnson; "1 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... | |
 | 1872 - 500 pages
...Government to take care that the change should not be prejudicial to India. VIII, 150: Johnson had taken care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it. Mit shall VII, 113: Her rites are so superstitious that I will take care that they shall be performed... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...which begins " The atrocious crime of being a young man," 10th March, 1741. — ED.] The gradathat the WHIG DOGS should not have the ~"| best of it."] [In the perusal of these debates, we cannot but wonder at the powers that produced them. authour had never... | |
 | Henry Wharton Griffith - 1849 - 252 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 reports increased immensely the sale of the Magazine ; they enabled Cave to set up an equipage,... | |
 | Frederick Knight Hunt - 1850 - 318 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.'" Cave's name has been immortalized because he had the good fortune to get Johnson to write out his Parliamentary... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 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 remarkable scene and its revelations, though highly flattering to Johnson, aroused him anew... | |
 | 1853 - 888 pages
...parties." " That is not quite true, tea" said Johnson ; " I saved appearances well enough ; but I took care that the whig dogs should not have the best of it." The reports increased immensely the sale of the " Gentleman's Magazine," which DOW enabled Cave to... | |
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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... 
