...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....; but you are surprised to find it done at all.'; On Tuesday, August 2, (the day of my departure from London having been fixed for the 5th, ) Dr. Johnson...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...that morning 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...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...

...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....well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all." On Tuesday, August 2, (the day of my departure from London having been fixed for the 5th,) Dr. Johnson...

...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...

...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...

...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...