...the magazine ; but Johnson long afterward 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,...

...States are reported, how fully or fairly it is impossible now to say. If Johnson reporting Parliament took care " that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it," lesser men, if they had prejudices (and who is without them ?), cannot be hoped to have been perfectly...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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....

...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...

...congratulated him on his impartiality, he replied that he did pretty well, but took care, all Míe same, that "the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." The spirit involved in the remark hns passed away, and the modern reporter in the gallery gives, with that...

...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...

...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...