 | 1888 - 892 páginas
...ladies, doubted the value of woman's literature, and compared a female writer to a dog walking on its hind legs : " It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." What would the sturdy old conservatist have said could he have looked forward to the future and seen... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 356 páginas
...Life oj yoknsm, i. 122, ». 4. • • • 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. /*. ;. 4e3. 9 • • As the faculty of writing has been chiefly a masculine endowment, the reproach... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 páginas
...things you should teach your child first, another boy has learnt them both. 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 see it done at all. A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage married immediately after his... | |
 | Richard S. Peale - 1890 - 548 páginas
...soft, Gentle and low — an excellent thing in woman. Shakspere. Sir, a woman preaching is like я dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to And it done at all. "Johnson. The world was sad — the garden was a wild, And Man, the hermit, sighed... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 páginas
...we now see him. Snch an access of stnpidity, sir, is not in Natnre. Chip. ix. Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; hat yon are snrprised to find it done at all. /ty. I look npon it, that he who does not mind his... | |
 | 1915 - 556 páginas
...on the public platform. "Sir," he told Boswell, "a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on its hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." About the same time, Thomas Day's plan of training up for himself a eugenically perfect mate, not afraid... | |
 | Frederick William Morton - 1894 - 224 páginas
...Woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 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 only way to get the upper hand of a woman is to be more woman than she is herself. ANONYMOUS. THE... | |
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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. 
