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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. "
The Living Age - Pagina 471
1908
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Shorthand: A Scientific Magazine, Volume 2

1885 - 290 pagina’s
...two great political parties the balance of eloquence and of argument, whereupon he replied that he took care that the " Whig dogs should not have the best of it," and that was a sentiment in which the noble lord who was member for Middlesex would, no doubt,...
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Landmarks of English Literature

Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 pagina’s
...Moreover, his spirit of political partisanship was unworthy of so great a philosopher. Like Dr. Johnson, he always took care "that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." Still, with all its defects, his History is a great work; and if later writers have superseded...
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English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time

Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Charles Henry Edward Carmichael - 1886 - 870 pagina’s
...' Gentleman's Magazine ' from November, 1740,10 February, 1743, is said to have confessed that 'he took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' l In a debate on the subject in 1738, initiated by Mr. Speaker Complaints Onslow, Sir Robert Walpole...
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Life of Samuel Johnson

Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 pagina’s
...parties. But Johnson would not agree to this. " I saved," he said, "appearances tolerably well, but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." Besides the parliamentary reports, he wrote at this time several short biographies and other contributions...
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All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, Volume 62

1888 - 636 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 ! " We have now arrived at the era distinguished in the newspaper history of the period by the appearance...
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Seven Conventions

Augustus Wood Clason - 1888 - 190 pagina’s
...States are reported, how fully or fairly it is impossible now to say. If Johnson, reporting Parliament, took care " that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it," lesser men, if they had prejudices (and who is without them ?), can not be hoped to have been...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1889 - 574 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.' " — ARTHI-R MURPHY'S Essay on the Life and Genius of Dr. Johnson, pp. 43-45. But it would appear...
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Letters of Philip Dormer, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield, to His Godson and ...

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1890 - 452 pagina’s
...they all are now ; " and in his report of the Parliamentary debates he boasted that " he had taken care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of the argument." It is clear that the reasoning of such a one-sided disputant in his own quarrel needs to be carefully...
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The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries, Volume 14

John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - 1885 - 832 pagina’s
...States are reported, how fully or fairly it is impossible now to say. If Johnson reporting Parliament took care " that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it," lesser men, if they had prejudices (and who is without them ?), cannot be hoped to have been perfectly...
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Introduction to English Literature: Including a Number of Classic Works ...

Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 pagina’s
...he answered with charming frankness, "That is not quite true; I saved appearances pretty well, but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." and though it brought the author only ten guineas in money, it served to direct attention to him...
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