 | 1885 - 298 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,... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 480 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 Still, with all its defects, his History is a great work; and if later writers have superseded... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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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. 
