| Edith Kuiper, Jolande Sap - 1995 - 328 Seiten
...Johnson's dictum concerning a woman preacher, transposed into terms of music. 'Sir, a woman's composing is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not...well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.'" So accurately does history repeat itself. (Woolf [1928] (1957): 58) INTO THE MARGIN! Michele Pujol... | |
| Linda D. Swink - 1997 - 264 Seiten
...need to prop up their intuition" (Jacques Deval, News Summaries). "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" (Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Life). "The reason there are so few women after-dinner speakers is because... | |
| Virginia Woolf - 1998 - 488 Seiten
...Johnson's dictum concerning a woman preacher, transposed into terms of music. "Sir, a woman's composing 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."'2 So accurately does history repeat itself. Thus, I concluded, shutting Mr Oscar Browning's life... | |
| Adrienne Fried Block - 2000 - 448 Seiten
...concerning a woman preacher, transposed into terms of music, 'Sir, a woman's composing is like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all."" 5 Biographers also hold up mirrors to lives, usually after much or all of the life is lived. Before... | |
| Adrienne Fried Block - 1998 - 448 Seiten
...concerning a woman preacher, transposed into terms of music, 'Sir, a woman's composing is like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.""5 Biographers also hold up mirrors to lives, usually after much or all of the life is lived.... | |
| Ashley Montagu - 1999 - 340 Seiten
...views were well summarized by "the Great Cham," the incomparable Doctor Samuel Johnson, when he said, "A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his...well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." As Mary Ellmann has said in her luminous book on male critics anatomizing female writers, femaleness... | |
| Wendy Doniger - 1999 - 396 Seiten
...feet of uppity women and upright animals gave rise to Samuel Johnson's notorious remark that "a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs....well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." 113 Women on trial for witchcraft in Italy confessed to night-flying with mysterious "women from outside,... | |
| Wendy Doniger - 1999 - 390 Seiten
...feet of uppity women and upright animals gave rise to Samuel Johnson's notorious remark that "a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs....done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."113 Women on trial for witchcraft in Italy confessed to night-flying with mysterious "women from... | |
| Malcolm Ludvigsen - 1999 - 234 Seiten
...a good explanation and description of the gross features of the universe. As with Dr. Johnson's dog on his hind legs, it is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all. Let us assume that the photons form a thermal distribution, which, in the present era, describes the... | |
| William A. Yarberry, Jr. - 1999 - 320 Seiten
...over Frame Relay is a remarkable feat, akin to Dr. Samuel Johnson's comment about a dog walking on its hind legs — "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." Some organizations use Frame Relay successfully; others find the voice quality too rough for business... | |
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