 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 Seiten
...preaching is like a dog's V • b • I walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but * •> i. >4 you are surprised to find it done at all." On Tuesday,...the honour to pass a part of the morning with me at my chambers. He said, that " he always felt an inclination to do nothing." I observed, that it was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 Seiten
...at a meetinu of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach JOHNSON. " Sir, a woman tion to kill himself, it is not courage in him to do tlie 5th,) Dr. Johnson did me the honour to pass a part of the morning with me at my chambers. He said,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1849 - 710 Seiten
...that he liad 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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1849 - 714 Seiten
...that he had 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... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 476 Seiten
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 Seiten
...at a 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....the' honour to pass a part of the morning with me at my chambers. He said, that " he always felt an inclination to do nothing." I observed, that it was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 Seiten
...at a 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....the honour to pass a part of the morning with me at my chambers. He said, that " he always felt an inclination to do nothing." I observed, that it was... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1896 - 640 Seiten
...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... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 Seiten
...clergy give up 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....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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 Seiten
...fame ; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it. FEMALE PREACHERS. A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his...well : but you are surprised to find it done at all. EDUCATION OF CHILDREN. Sir, it is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall... | |
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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. 
