 The rest of the company bestowed lavish encomiums on 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...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Page 28by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Full view - About this book
 | 1859 - 650 pages
...in holding the balance even between the contending parties, he answered, ' 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 would be impossible, however, from the debates themselves to discover his bias. Both sides declaim... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pages
...impartiality in holding the balance even between the contending parties, he answered ' 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 would be impossible, however, from the debates themselves to discover his bias. Both sides declaim... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1859 - 584 pages
...impartiality in holding the balance even between the contending parties, he answered ' 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 would be impossible, however, from the debates themselves to discover his bias. Both sides declaim... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pages
...in holding the balance even between the contending parties, he answered ' That is not quite true. 1 saved appearances tolerably well, but I took care...that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' It would be impossible, however, from the debates themselves to discover his bias. Both sides declaim... | |
 | 1859 - 578 pages
...in holding the balance even between the contending parties, he answered ' That i§ not quite true. 1 saved appearances tolerably well, but I took care...that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.' It would be impossible, however, from the debates themselves to discover his bias. Both sides declaim... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...reason and eloquence with an equal hand to both parties "That is not quite true," said Johnion ; " 1 saved appearances tolerably well, but I took care...that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it." — Murphy, The speech of Mr. Pin's referred to was, no doubt, the celebrated reply tc old Horace Walpole,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...hand to both parties. "That is not quite true," sold Johnson ; " I saved appearance tolerably welt, but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it." — Murphy. It ii very remarkable that Dr. Maty, who wrote the Life and edited the Works of Lord Chesterfield,... | |
 | 1860 - 782 pages
...Johnson ; and one, in particular, praising SuS his impartiality, he replied, " That is not quite true ; I saved appearances tolerably well, but I took care that the Whig dogs should have the best of it." He, however, seems to have subsequently regretted the composition of these speeches,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 pages
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1861 - 544 pages
...misrepresented them to suit the views of different parties. Dr. Johnson is said to have confessed that " he took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it ; " and, in the same spirit, the arguments of all parties were in turn perverted or suppressed. Galling... | |
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