...heard a woman preach that morning at a Quakers' meeting, Johnson replied, ' Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprized to find it done at all.'" [ Fervency of Prayer J\ IT is related of Edward Hopkins, one of...

...heard a woman preacli that morning at a Quakers' meeting, Johnson replied, ' Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprized to find it done at all.'" [Fervency of Pray er. ~\ IT is related of Edward Hopkins, one of...

...heard a woman preach that morning at a Quakers' meeting, Johnson replied, ' Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you arc surprized to find it done at all.'" [Fervency of Prayer, ,] IT is related of Edward Hopkins, one...

...Quakers, where he had heard a woman preach. Johnson replied, " Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog walking on his hind legs — it is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." And not only surprised, but disgusted : for what is more inconsistent with the modesty and domestic...

...woman preach. Johnson replied, " Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog walking on his hind legs—it is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." more inconsistent with the modesty and domestic propriety of woman, than the office of public preaching...

...meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON. " Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not...well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." On Tuesday, August 2, (the day of my departure from London having been fixed for the 5th,) Dr. Johnson...

...delivered himself of a scathing invective. No doubt he would have said equally, "Sir, a woman's writing is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not...well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." Edward Fitzgerald, nearly a century later, though he goes so far as to allow " taste to be the feminine...

...their homely manner, religion will soon decay in that country." — Boswell, 156. A WOMAN preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not...well : but you are surprised to find it done at all. — Johnson, 157. I OWCE told you (Miss Reynolds) that ladies were timorous, and yet not cautious....

...Pulpit Eloquence. VH.— FEMALE PREACHERS. A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs : it is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all. — Boswett's Life of Johnson. As all our ideas are derived from sensation and reflection, it is impossible...

...Pulpit Eloquence. Vn.—FEMALE PREACHERS. A woman's preaching is like a dog's -walking on his hinder legs: it is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.—lioswelVs Life of Johnson. As all our ideas are derived from sensation and reflection, it is...