...resented 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....

...resented 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. Galling...

...never entered Parliament, and the debates were largely fictions, in which, by his own confession, he ' took care that the Whig Dogs should not have the best of it,' their writing seems to bear little upon the subject of the FOURTH ESTATE. See in this volume,...

...but oiice. And I am afraid he allowed his political prejudices a little to colour what he wrote; he " took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." You cannot rely on the absolute accuracy of these reports. But even for such reports Cave was...

...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 V The sale of the Magazine was ' Some of the speeches had been previously given in the Political...

...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 V The sale of the Magazine was ' Some of the speeches had been previously given in the Political...

...his reputation that this should have been done. His saying is familiar, that in these reports he " took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it " ; but it is not, perhaps, so generally known that he was never himself present at any of the debates...

...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." In 1738 appeared a poem entkled "London," an imitation of the third satire of Juvenal. It met...

...impartiality, Johnson replied, " 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." The speeches passed for a time as accurate ; though, in truth, it has been proved and it is easy...

...wrote the debates in parliament published by Cave under the title of The Senate of Lillijmt, and ' took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' In 1738 he attempted to do with Juvenal what Pope had been doing with Horace; he published his...