...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 Still, with all its defects, his History is a great work; and if later writers have superseded it as...

...had been equally dealt out to both parties. But Johnson would not agree to this. " I saved," he said, "appearances tolerably well, but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." Besides the parliamentary reports, he wrote at this time several short biographies and other contributions...

...to both parties." " That is not quite true, sir," said Johnson. " I saved appearances well enough ; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it ! " We have now arrived at the era distinguished in the newspaper history of the period by the appearance...

...States are reported, how fully or fairly it is impossible now to say. If Johnson, reporting Parliament, took care " that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it," lesser men, if they had prejudices (and who is without them ?), can not be hoped to have been perfectly...

...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 DOGS should not have the best of it.' " — ARTHI-R MURPHY'S Essay on the Life and Genius of Dr. Johnson, pp. 43-45. But it would appear...

...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 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 faculties,...

...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 faculties,...

...States are reported, how fully or fairly it is impossible now to say. If Johnson reporting Parliament took care " that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it," lesser men, if they had prejudices (and who is without them ?), cannot be hoped to have been perfectly...

...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...