 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pagina’s
...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." The sale of the Magazine was greatly increased by the Parliamentary Debates, which were continued... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 pagina’s
...to 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... | |
 | Henry Wharton Griffith - 1849 - 250 pagina’s
...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." The reports increased immensely the sale of the Magazine ; they enabled Cave to set up an equipage,... | |
 | Frederick Knight Hunt - 1850 - 314 pagina’s
...both 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... | |
 | Frederick Knight Hunt - 1850 - 318 pagina’s
...both 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... | |
 | 1853 - 886 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Keddie - 1854 - 404 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Press - 1857 - 294 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1859 - 750 pagina’s
...contending parties, he answered ' That is not quite true. I saved appearances tolerably well, but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' It would be impossible, however, from the debates themselves to discover his bias. Both sides... | |
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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. 
