 | James Boswell - 1887 - 414 стор.
...did not put the dog in the pillory,' iii. 354 ; ' I love the young dogs of this age,' i. 445 ; ' I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it,' L 504 ; ' I would have knocked the factious dogs on the head," iv. 221 ; ' If you were not an idle... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 570 стор.
...then his opponent's. It is wonderful how well he preserves his impartiality, though he does ' take care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' He not only took the greatest liberties in his reports, but he often took them openly. Thus an army... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1887 - 468 стор.
...parties. " That is not quite true, sir," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances well enough, but I took good care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." ' l ' Sir John Hawkins, Life of Johnson. CHAPTER V. WALPOLE'S LEGACIES. 1742—1760. WALPOLE'S aims... | |
 | 1888 - 770 стор.
...both partie?." " 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... | |
 | 1914 - 964 стор.
...compared with "effectiveness." We all know the story of Dr. Johnson who, as a Parliamentary reporter, took care that the "Whig dogs" should not have the best of It. However, to the credit of English journalism, the reporting of the debates was for long efficiently... | |
 | 1901 - 864 стор.
...remember how, in his reports of the Parliamentary debates, Dr. Johnson, according to his own iiv'owal, "took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it," and so largely do they bear the impress of the so-called reporter that in some editions those Parliamentary... | |
 | 1872 - 500 стор.
...Government to take care that the change should not be prejudicial to India. VIII, 150: Johnson had taken care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it. Mit shall VII, 113: Her rites are so superstitious that I will take care that they shall be performed... | |
 | Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess, Roderick Duncan McKenzie - 1967 - 250 стор.
...parties. "That is not quite true," was Johnson's reply. "I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." This speech of William Pitt, composed by Johnson in Exeter Street, has long held a place in school... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1915 - 462 стор.
...“That is not quite true, sir,” said Johnson; “I saved appearances well enough, but I took good care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.” Coleridge, however, never became like Johnson a regular reporter of the debates. Johnson, though indolent,... | |
 | Robert Tarbell Oliver - 1986 - 332 стор.
...balancing the arguments of the two factions, he replied, "I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it." 10 What is known for sure is that eloquence mattered. Because government was loosely organized and... | |
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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. 
