 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 Living Age - Pagina 4691908Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Appleton Morgan - 1875 - 840 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Thomas Pitt Taswell- Langmead - 1875 - 876 pagina’s
...the 'Gentleman's Magazine' from November, 1740, to February, 1743, is said to have confessed that 'he took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it,' and later reporters too often indulged in offensive and scurrilous nicknames.1 In 1771 notes of... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pagina’s
...ligelig for begge Partier, sagdc han: ,,That is cot quite true: 1 saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it". — Det var forst omkring 1770, under den stserke Bevsegelse, som Striden med de amerikanske Kolonier... | |
 | James Birchall - 1876 - 970 pagina’s
...to suit the views of different parties, and Dr. Johnson is even said to have confessed, that i; he took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." This practice was * Mauoy'a George the Third, I., 384. t May's Constitutional History, II., 29-33.... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1877 - 560 pagina’s
...done for this magazine from 1740 to 1743 by Dr 'Johnson, who, with his well-known political bias, " it." Thirty years after this time the same plan was adopted by the newspapers. Still in the earlier... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pagina’s
...done for this magazine from 1740 to 1743 by Dr Johnson, who, with his well-known political bias, " king for them beneath the Arctic circle, we hear that th it" Thirty years after this time the same plan was adopted by the newspapers. Still in the earlier... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 226 pagina’s
...his impartiality, Johnson replied, "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." The speeches passed for a time as accurate ; though, in truth, it has been proved and it is easy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pagina’s
...sides. ' I saved appearances tolerably well,' he said, when applauded for his impartiality, ' but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' This scheme Johnson abandoned when he found that people were really deceived by it, and were taking... | |
 | James Paterson - 1880 - 654 pagina’s
...answer to Horace Walpole in «. garret near the Strand ; and in his Parliamentary reports generally he took care, that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it in the arguments. — BoswelF s Johnson; Hawkins' Johnson. And LORD KENYON said (temp. 1778) Johnson... | |
 | 1880 - 556 pagina’s
...impartiality Johnson replied, "That is not quite true ; I saved appearances toler• ably well, but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." The speeches passed for a time as accurate , though, in truth, it has been proved and it is easy... | |
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