 | 1880 - 556 páginas
...less terrible. Boswell told Johnson that he had heard a Quaker woman preach. "A woman's prea'chiug," said Johnson, "is like a dog's walking on his hind...well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all." v So friendly had the pair become, that when Boswell left England to continue his studies at Utrecht,... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 páginas
...Dover, to show light at Calais." 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. When Boswell said he had heard a woman preach " at a meeting of the people called Quakers." I refute... | |
 | Cyril Church - 1883 - 854 páginas
...table, than when his wife talks Greek." Again : " A woman's preaching is like a dog walking on its hind legs — it is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." He has a good deal to say about Death, and when in full activity showed even more than the .common... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. Ibid. Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you arc surprised to find it done at all. Itntt. A very unclubable man. An. 1764. That fellow seems to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 páginas
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 páginas
...meeting of the people called Quakers, where he heard a woman preach. JOHNSON. " Sir, a woman's 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." . '.. .. " The Christian religion has very strong evidences. It, indeed, appears in some degree strange... | |
 | Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - 1884 - 312 páginas
...that ' a wife was not the worse for being learned,' but would add, ' 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.' Possibly I should have given this as an illustration of the ' prejudices' for which Johnson was so... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 páginas
...evening that he had been to hear a lady preach. " Sir," said JOHNSON, " 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." Of European ladies, he said that to die with husbands, or to live without them, are the two extremes... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 172 páginas
...Friends, or Quakers, and heard a woman preach. " Sir," said Johnson, "a woman's preaching is like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised that it is done at all." DAVID GARRICK. COON after the formation of the Literary Club, Sir Joshua Reynolds... | |
 | 1887 - 1332 páginas
...A woman possessed of a decent and modest spirit marries but once. Chinese. 79. A woman's 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. 80. A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. 81. A woman seldom... | |
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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. 
