...ridiculous ' (ib. p. 809). Later on, Johnson in his reports ' saved appearances tolerably well ; but took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it ' (Murphy's Johnson, p. 45). It was but a few days after he became a contributor to the Magazine that...

...both parties. "That is not quite true," said Johnson; "I saved appearances tolerably well, but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it." ' Murphy's Life of Johnson, p. 343. Murphy, we must not forget, wrote from memory, for there is no...

...genuine. He owned that he was not quite impartial in dealing out his reason and rhetoric, but " took care that the whig dogs should not have the best of it.'' His attachment to the tory, or rather Jacobite party, was further shown by an humorous pamphlet in...

...genuine. He owned that he was not quite impartial in dealing out his reason and rhetoric, but " took care that the whig dogs should not have the best of it." - His attachment to the tory, or rather Jacobite, party was further shewn by an humorous pamphlet in...

...parties. ' That ig not quite true,' said Johnson ; ' I saved appearances tolerably well, but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." In the year 17 ^2, that is in the thirty-third year of his age, Johnson was employed by Mr Thomas Osbome,...

...parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well ; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it." The sale of the Magazine was gijeatly increased by the Parliamentary Debates, which were continued...

...parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson; " I saved appearances tolerably well ; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it." * This strong bias in favour of a party runs through the whole of his political works, though not so...

...parties. "That is not quite true," sard Johnson; " I saved appearances tolerably well ; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it."* This strong bias in favour of a party rans through the whote of his political works, though ~ s ' O...

...both parties ; " That is not quite true, said Johnson ; I saved appearances tolerably well, but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it *." Although the speeches, in the course of events, have lost their original interest, yet they possess...

...genuine. He owned, however, that in dealing his reason and rhetoric he was pot quite impartial; but took care, that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' lately discovered near Lynn in Norfolk, by Probus Britannicus : ' in which, as Norfolk was the county...