...remember how, in his reports of the Parliamentary debates, Dr. Johnson, according to his own avowal, "took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it;" and so largely do they bear the impress of the so-called [560] reporter that, in some editions,...

...sides. 'I saved appearances tolerably well,' he said, when applauded for his impartiality, ' but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' This scheme Johnson abandoned when he found that people were really deceived by it, and were taking...

...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.' " Another incident belonging to this period illustrates both the variety of work he was willing...

...declares that, during the period when Johnson was contributing those parliamentary reports in which he took care that " the Whig dogs should not have the best of it," the circulation rose to fifteen thousand. Success so brilliant provoked imitation, and within...

...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." The account of this famous conversation was not published until at least nineteen years after...

...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." One of his biographers much extols these reports of Dr. Johnson since he "had the art to give...

...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." The sale of the Magazine was greatly increased by the Parliamentary Debates, which were continued...

...parties. "That is not quite true," was Johnson's reply. "I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." This speech of William Pitt, composed by Johnson in Exeter Street, has long held a place in school...

...Whig utterance, 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.' It was not that blunt partisanship which made Johnson ashamed of this episode of his career in...

...Whig utterance, 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.' It was not that blunt partisanship which made Johnson ashamed of this episode of his career in...