 | 1905 - 654 pages
...to a Quaker meeting, and heard a woman preach, he replied, " Sir, a woman preaching is like a doe: walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." The great Doctor was very fond of the pleasures of the table. His biographer says : " I never knew... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1906 - 444 pages
...woman's preaching. "Sir," he once said, "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." Well, to be sure, we must grant every nation its distinctive genius. It is more natural, as St. Paul... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 712 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....On Tuesday, August 2, (the day of my departure from Ix>ndon having been fixed for the 5th,) Dr. Johnson did me the honour to pass apart of the morning... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 574 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....my departure from London having been fixed for the sth,) Dr. Johnson did me the honour to pass a part of the morning with me at my chambers. He said,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 578 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. It is not done well; but you are_surprised to find it done at all." On Tuesday, August 2, (the day of my departure from London having... | |
 | Florence Anne MacCunn - 1909 - 488 pages
...from Dr Johnson's cynical reason — " Sir, 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." The chief reason of the interest excited by the literary work of women is the world's unspoken hope... | |
 | Augusta Choate, Gertrude Hartman - 1912 - 174 pages
...Gummidge's looking up at the clock, between eight and nine, and saying he was there. 21. A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs....well; but you are surprised to find it done at all. 22. They even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking. 23.... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1912 - 310 pages
...illustrations sometimes are, as when he said on being told of some women preaching : " Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs....well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." * Again, on hearing of a gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, marrying immediately after... | |
 | Emily Sampson - 2006 - 236 pages
...the male-dominated ecclesiastical world: "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."14 Her years of work were met with polite, perhaps surprised, silence. The first scholarly notice... | |
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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. 
