...clever than other people?" Gruff 0¡, Sam Johnson most migallantly remarked that "woman's preaching} like a dog's walking on his hind legs; it is not done well, but you ar. surprised to find it done at all." And so very likely the above questioi is engendered of the surprise...

...why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. Ibid. An. 1763. 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. Ibid. An. 1763. A very unclubable man. ibid. An. 1764. That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea,...

...speak to him of a Quaker's meeting, and of a woman preaching, he will tell us that "a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs; it is not...done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all."4 He is a Conservative, and does not fear being considered antiquated. He went at one o'clock...

...replied the promising disciple, " but not equal to Fleet Street." " You are right, sir," said the sqge ; and Boswell illustrates his dictum by the authority...to find it done at all." So friendly had the pair oecome, that when Boswell left England to continue his studies at Utrecht, Johnson accompanied him...

...the ' Saint Graal. ' not find favour with Dr. Johnson, — "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" But in Johnson's time learned or cultivated women were much more rare than they are now; and they are...

...of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. Johnson: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not...but you are surprised to find it done at all."— Boswell. " Hume and other sceptical innovators are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expense....

...of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. Johnson: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not...done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."—Moswell. " Hume and other sceptical innovators are vain men, and will gratify themselves at...

...first, but in the meantime your breech is cold.' WOMEN PREACHING. ' Sir, a woman 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.' Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). SOCIAL RANK. Bosivell — ' I consider distinction of rank to be of so...

...first, but in the meantime your breech is cold.' WOMEN PREACHING. ' Sir, a woman 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.' Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). SOCIAL RANK. Boswell—' 1 consider distinction of rank to be of so much...

...Eckermann's Convertatiom with Goethe. ' ' Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his bind legs It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.' — Dr. woman has been the storehouse, the supplying fountain ; of it she has drunk most deeply, most...