...asked how that speech could be written by him? "Sir," said Johnson, " I wrote it in Exeter Street, I never had been in the gallery of the House of Commons...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...

...Francis asked how that speech could be written by him? "Sir," said Johnson, "I wrote it in Exeter Street. I never had been in the gallery of the House of Commons...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...

...for 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...

...for 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...

...impartiality, observing that he dealt out reason and eloquence with an equal hand to both parties. ' That ig not quite true,' said Johnson ; ' I saved appearances...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,...

...in the gallery of the house of commons but once. Cave had interest with the doorkeepers. He, and die persons employed under him, gained admittance ; they...have the best of it." The sale of the Magazine was gijeatly increased by the Parliamentary Debates, which were continued by Johnson till the month of...

...gallery of the House of Commons but once. Cave had interest with the door-keepers. He, and the persons under him, gained admittance : they brought away the...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...

...dealt ont reason and eloquence with ;in equal hand to both parties. "That is not quite true," sard Johnson; " I saved appearances tolerably well ; but...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...

...bestowed lavish encomiums on Johnson. One, in particular, praised his impartiality, observing that he had dealt out reason and eloquence with an equal hand...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...