 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...between virtue and vice, 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...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,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1876 - 472 pages
...Christ."3 If we 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...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... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - 1878 - 378 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 pages
...a meeting 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....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.... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 pages
...a meeting 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....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... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - 254 pages
...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... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - 254 pages
...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... | |
 | 1869 - 518 pages
...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... | |
 | 1880 - 556 pages
...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 legs. 'It is...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 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
