...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,...

...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 the whig dogs should not have the best of it." His work was sometimes too good for the persons to whom it was ascribed, though perhaps their friends...

...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 the whig dogs should not have the best of it." His work was sometimes too good for the persons to whom it was ascribed, though perhaps their friends...

...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...

...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, p. 43-45. But it would appear as if...

...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, p. 43-45. But it would appear as...

...speech in a garret" When the company praised his impartiality he 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" About this time JOHNSON made the acquaintanceship of Savage, the reputed son of Lord Rivers, who had...

...two great political parties the balance of eloquence and of argument, whereupon he replied that he took care that the " Whig dogs should not have the best of it," and that was a sentiment in which the noble lord who was member for Middlesex would, no doubt, very...

...' Gentleman's Magazine ' from November, 1740,10 February, 1743, is said to have confessed that 'he took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' l In a debate on the subject in 1738, initiated by Mr. Speaker Complaints Onslow, Sir Robert Walpole...

...spirit of political partisanship was unworthy of so great a philosopher. Like Dr. Johnson, he always took care "that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." Still, with all its defects, his History is a great work; and if later writers have superseded it as...