 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 584 pagine
...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... | |
 | 1859 - 650 pagine
...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... | |
 | 1859 - 578 pagine
...contending parties, he answered ' That i§ not quite true. 1 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pagine
...to both parties. "That is not quite true," sold Johnson ; " I saved appearance tolerably welt, but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it." — Murphy. It ii very remarkable that Dr. Maty, who wrote the Life and edited the Works of Lord... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1861 - 544 pagine
...misrepresented 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.... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - 1861 - 536 pagine
...misrepresented 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.... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1865 - 462 pagine
...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." Obtaining a Copyright. MB. JOHNSON, the bookseller in St. Paul's churchyard, London, obtained... | |
 | 1868 - 860 pagine
...to Johnson that he dealt out reason and eloquence pretty equally to both parties, he remarked : ' I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' It was not till 30 years later that the parliamentary debates descended from the magazines to... | |
 | 1868 - 862 pagine
...that he dealt out reason REPORTING. and eloquence pretty equally to both parties, he remarked : ' I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' It was not till 30 years later that the parliamentary debates descended from the magazines to... | |
 | John Shortt - 1871 - 824 pagine
...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... | |
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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. 
