 Johnson : one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well ; but I took care that the WHIG...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Stran 34avtor: Samuel Johnson - 1806Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | George Henry Jennings - 1881 - 564 strani
...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,... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - 1881 - 404 strani
...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... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - 1881 - 408 strani
...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... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 596 strani
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 strani
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 722 strani
...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... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 376 strani
...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... | |
 | 1885 - 290 strani
...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... | |
 | Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Charles Henry Edward Carmichael - 1886 - 870 strani
...' 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... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 strani
...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... | |
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