...to suit the views of different parties, and Dr. Johnson is even said to have confessed, that i; he took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." This practice was * Mauoy'a George the Third, I., 384. t May's Constitutional History, II., 29-33....

...done for this magazine from 1740 to 1743 by Dr Johnson, who, with his well-known political bias, " king for them beneath the Arctic circle, we hear that they h Thirty years after this time the same plan was adopted by the newspapers. Still in the earlier part...

...done for this magazine from 1740 to 1743 by Dr 'Johnson, who, with his well-known political bias, " took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." Thirty years after this time the same plan was adopted by the newspapers. Still in the earlier part...

...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...

...both sides. ' I saved appearances tolerably well,' he said, when applauded for his impartiality, ' but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' This scheme Johnson abandoned when he found that people were really deceived by it, and were taking...

...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,...

...eloquence but his impartiality Johnson replied, "That is not quite true ; I saved appearances toler• ably 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 to observe,...

...answer to Horace Walpole in «. garret near the Strand ; and in his Parliamentary reports generally he took care, that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it in the arguments. — BoswelF s Johnson; Hawkins' Johnson. And LORD KENYON said (temp. 1778) Johnson...

...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,...

...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,...