 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 стор.
...and ridiculous' (ib. p. 809). Later on, Johnson in his reports ' saved appearances tolerably well; but took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it' (Murphy's Johnson, p. 45). It was but a few days after he became a contributor to the Magazine that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 стор.
...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." ' Murphy's Life of Johnson, p. 343. Murphy, we must not forget, wrote from memory, for there is no... | |
 | Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - 1820 - 540 стор.
...adhered in general to the tenor of argument really employed by the supposed speakers, otherwise they could scarcely have passed at the time for genuine....that the whig dogs should not have the best of it.'' His attachment to the tory, or rather Jacobite party, was further shown by an humorous pamphlet in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 стор.
...parties. ' That is " not quite true,' said Johnson ; « I saved appear" ances tolerably well, but I took care that the " Whig dogs should not have the best of it." In the year 174-2, that is in the thirty-third year of his age, Johnson was employed by Mr Thomas Osborne,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 стор.
...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 by... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 стор.
...to both parties. "That is not quite true," said Johnson; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but 1 took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it." * This strong bias in favour of a party runs through the whole of his political works, though not so... | |
 | 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 - 750 стор.
...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 declaim... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1908 - 674 стор.
...who had been reporters in their day, including, of course, Dr Johnson, whose avowal that he always ' took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of the argument,' mightily shocks Mr Grant's professional conscience. Amongst the successors of Johnson... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1906 - 812 стор.
...Samuel Johnson's notion of historical reporting: 'I saved appearances well enough, but I took good care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' That his recollection, even of recent events, should be sometimes quite untrustworthy is not surprising,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 стор.
...as genuine. He owned, however, that in dealing his reason and rhetoric he was pot quite impartial; but took care, that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' lately discovered near Lynn in Norfolk, by Probus Britannicus:' in which, as Norfolk was the county... | |
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could scarcely have passed at the time for genuine. He owned that he was not quite impartial in dealing out his reason and rhetoric ; but took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it. 
