 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. Ibid. Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you arc surprised to find it done at all. Itntt. A very unclubable man. An. 1764. That fellow seems to... | |
 | Cyril Church - 1883 - 854 pages
...table, than when his wife talks Greek." Again : " A woman's preaching is like a dog walking on its hind legs — it is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." He has a good deal to say about Death, and when in full activity showed even more than the .common... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where he heard a woman preach. JOHNSON. " 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." . '.. .. " The Christian religion has very strong evidences. It, indeed, appears in some degree strange... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 pages
...evening that he had been to hear a lady preach. " Sir," said JOHNSON, " 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." Of European ladies, he said that to die with husbands, or to live without them, are the two extremes... | |
 | Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - 1884 - 312 pages
...that ' a wife was not the worse for being learned,' but would add, ' 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.' Possibly I should have given this as an illustration of the ' prejudices' for which Johnson was so... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 172 pages
...Friends, or Quakers, and heard a woman preach. " Sir," said Johnson, "a woman's preaching is like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised that it is done at all." DAVID GARRICK. COON after the formation of the Literary Club, Sir Joshua Reynolds... | |
 | 1887 - 1332 pages
...Turkish Spy. 78. A woman possessed of a decent and modest spirit marries but once. Chinese. 79. 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. Johnson. 80. A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. 81. A woman seldom... | |
 | 1888 - 892 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 pages
...which of two 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... | |
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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. 
