 | Thomas Erskine May - 1895 - 486 lehte
...resented 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... | |
 | 1895 - 612 lehte
...the discriminating judgment which led that writer, according to his own admission, " always to take care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." Mr. Jones does not believe in Co-operative Production. He wants his Wholesale Society to be the all-in-all... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 80 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,... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1924 - 734 lehte
...Voyage to Abyssinia ; for Cave he was writing the reports of parliamentary debates (avowedly taking care that the " whig dogs should not have the best of it "), and he both contributed to and wrote the preface for the " Medical Dictionary " published by James.... | |
 | 1908 - 856 lehte
...who had been reporters in their day, including, of course, Dr. Johnson, whose avowal that he always "took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of the argument," mightily shocks Mr. Grant's professional conscience. Amongst the successors of Johnson... | |
 | 1901 - 864 lehte
...remember how, in his reports of the Parliamentary debates, Dr. Johnson, according to his own iiv'owal, "took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it," and so largely do they bear the impress of the so-called reporter that in some editions those Parliamentary... | |
 | Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess, Roderick Duncan McKenzie - 1967 - 250 lehte
...eloquence with an equal hand to both political parties. "That is not quite true," was Johnson's reply. "I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care...that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." This speech of William Pitt, composed by Johnson in Exeter Street, has long held a place in school... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1908 - 674 lehte
...who had been reporters in their day, including, of course, Dr Johnson, whose avowal that he always ' took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of the argument,' mightily shocks Mr Grant's professional conscience. Amongst the successors of Johnson... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 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 *." Although the speeches, in the course of events, have lost their original interest, yet they possess... | |
 | Robert Tarbell Oliver - 1986 - 332 lehte
...When he was complimented for his fairness in balancing the arguments of the two factions, he replied, "I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care...that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it." 10 What is known for sure is that eloquence mattered. Because government was loosely organized and... | |
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I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it. 
