 | 1860 - 782 lehte
...lavish encomiums upon Johnson ; and one, in particular, praising SuS his impartiality, he replied, " That is not quite true ; I saved appearances tolerably well, but I took care that the Whig dogs should have the best of it." He, however, seems to have subsequently regretted the composition of these speeches,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 lehte
...hand to both parties. "That is not quite true," sold Johnson ; " I saved appearance tolerably welt, but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it." — Murphy. It ii very remarkable that Dr. Maty, who wrote the Life and edited the Works of Lord Chesterfield,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 lehte
...the 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,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1861 - 544 lehte
...misrepresented them to suit the views of different parties. Dr. Johnson is said to have confessed that " he took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it ; " and, in the same spirit, the arguments of all parties were in turn perverted or suppressed. Galling... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - 1861 - 536 lehte
...misrepresented them to suit the views of different parties. Dr. Johnson is said to have confessed that " he took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it ; " and, in the same spirit, the arguments of all parties were in turn perverted or suppressed. Galling... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1865 - 462 lehte
...an 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." Obtaining a Copyright. MB. JOHNSON, the bookseller in St. Paul's churchyard, London, obtained the copyright... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 730 lehte
...the 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,... | |
 | 1868 - 860 lehte
...observed to Johnson that he dealt out reason and eloquence pretty equally to both parties, he remarked : ' I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' It was not till 30 years later that the parliamentary debates descended from the magazines to the newspapers.... | |
 | 1868 - 862 lehte
...Johnson that he dealt out reason REPORTING. and eloquence pretty equally to both parties, he remarked : ' I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' It was not till 30 years later that the parliamentary debates descended from the magazines to the newspapers.... | |
 | John Shortt - 1871 - 824 lehte
...was afterwards discharged. The decision having written it in a garret in Exeter-street ; adding ' ' I saved appearances tolerably well ; but I took care...that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." In order to evade the resolutions of the Houses of Parliament against the publication of their debates,... | |
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I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it. 
