 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1893 - 546 Seiten
...the magazine ; but Johnson long afterwards owned that, though he had saved appearances, he had taken care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it ; and, in fact, every passage which has lived — every passage which bears the marks of his higher... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 Seiten
...friendly company, 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 as... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1894 - 290 Seiten
...the Magazine. But Johnson long afterwards owned that, though he had saved appearances, he had taken care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it ; and, in fact, every passage which, has lived, every passage which bears the marks of his higher faculties,... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1924 - 734 Seiten
...Voyage to Abyssinia ; for Cave he was writing the reports of parliamentary debates (avowedly taking care that the " whig dogs should not have the best of it "), and he both contributed to and wrote the preface for the " Medical Dictionary " published by James.... | |
 | 1908 - 856 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1901 - 864 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess, Roderick Duncan McKenzie - 1967 - 250 Seiten
...eloquence with an equal hand to both political 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... | |
 | 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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 Seiten
...reason and eloquence with an equal hand to 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 *." Although the speeches, in the course of events, have lost their original interest, yet they possess... | |
 | Robert Tarbell Oliver - 1986 - 332 Seiten
...When he was complimented for his fairness in 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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I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it. 
