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" I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it. "
The Quarterly Review - Page 178
redigeeritud poolt - 1859
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The National Magazine, 2. köide

Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 lehte
...reason and eloquence with an equal hand to 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.' " This remarkable scene and its revelations, though highly flattering to Johnson, aroused him anew...
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The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading, 2. köide

1853 - 888 lehte
...to both 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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Cyclopædia of Literary and Scientific Anecdote: Illustrations of the ...

William Keddie - 1854 - 400 lehte
...equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances pretty well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." The reports increased immensely the sale of the magazines; they enabled Cave to set up an equipage,...
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The press and the public service, by a distinguished writer

Press - 1857 - 294 lehte
...to both parties. " That is not quite true, sir," said the Doctor; "I saved appearances well enough, but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." As to party censures and misrepresentations like this, they must be borne patiently. They are inevitable...
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New Biographies of Illustrious Men

1857 - 480 lehte
...the Magazine ; but Johnson long afterward owned that, though he had saved appearances, he had taken care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it; and, in fact, every passage which has lived — 28* every passage which bears the marks of his higher...
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Biographical essays

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 340 lehte
...tho Magazine. But 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; and, in fact, every passage which has lived , every passage which bears the marks of his higher faculties...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 14. köide

1857 - 884 lehte
...the Magazine ; but Johnson long afterward owned that, though he had saved appearances, he had taken care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it ; and, in fact, every passage which has lived — every passage which bears the marks of his higher...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., 1. köide

James Boswell - 1858 - 482 lehte
...reason and eloquence with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well, but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should nut have the best of it." • v CHAPTER VII. 1741—1744 Johnson finishes " Irene " — Writes " Essay...
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The London Quarterly Review, 105–106. köide

1859 - 650 lehte
...Johnson. The substance is just as much in his usual strain of speculation and moralizing. There is a vast amount of reflection, very few facts, and very...prejudices of the politician, and as every speech was1 in fact his own, he could not resist the impulse to put the strongest arguments and most forcible...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides, 34. köide

James Boswell - 1860 - 950 lehte
...reason and eloquence with an equal hand to both parties "That is not quite true," said Johnion ; " 1 saved appearances tolerably well, but I took care...that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it." — Murphy, The speech of Mr. Pin's referred to was, no doubt, the celebrated reply tc old Horace Walpole,...
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