...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,...

...dealing out reason and eloquence with an equal hand to both parties, 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." First Publication of Debates in the Irish Parliament.— It was in the time of Lord Chancellor Bowes,...

...in writing the definitions for his Dictionary. When writing the Parliamentary Debates for Cave, he " took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." He wrote little in direct support of the Tories. After he received his pension he conceived himself...

...accessory to the propagation of falsehood." Murphy says, however, that in reply to the remark that he had dealt out reason and eloquence with an equal hand to both parties, Johnson replied, " That is not quite true, I saved appearances tolerably well, but I took care that...

...accessory to the propagation of falsehood." Murphy says, however, that in reply to the remark that he had dealt out reason and eloquence with an equal hand to both parties, Johnson replied, " That is not quite true, I saved appearances tolerably well, but I took care that...

...company bestowed lavish encomiums on Johnson : one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal...the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it." The sale of the magazine was greatly increased by the parliamentary debates, which were continued by Johnson...

...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...