...did not read then, or ever knew Johnson wrote till Johnson died.' Johnson said of these Debates :—' I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care...that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' Ante, i. 504. ' Lord Holland said that whenever Boswell came into a company where Horace Walpole was,...

...had been equally dealt out to both parties. But Johnson would not agree to this. " I saved," he said, "appearances tolerably well, but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." the ignoble contest with Curll. While engaged in this work, Johnson had an unfortunate controversy with...

...had been equally dealt out to both parties. But Johnson would not agree to this. " I saved," he said, "appearances tolerably well, but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." Besides the parliamentary reports, he wrote at this time several short biographies and other contributions...

...to both parties." " 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...

...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 ?), can not be hoped to have been perfectly...

...Sir, you have exceeded Demosthenes himself; for to say that you have exceeded Francis's Demosthenes, would be saying nothing.' The rest of the company...that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.' " — ARTHUR MURPHY'S Essay on the Life and Genius of Dr. Johnson, pp. 43-45. But it would appear as...

...Sir, you have exceeded Demosthenes himself; for to say that you have exceeded Francis's Demosthenes, would be saying nothing.' The rest of the company...that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.' " — ARTHI-R MURPHY'S Essay on the Life and Genius of Dr. Johnson, pp. 43-45. But it would appear...

...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,...

...did not read then, or ever knew Johnson wrote till Johnson died.' Johnson said of these Debates: — 'I saved appearances tolerably well ; but I took care...that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' See ante, i. 585. ' Lord Holland said Epistle, in which Johnson is satyrically introduced, has been...

...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,...