 | Elizabeth Rachel Chapman - 1897 - 268 pages
...that Boswell had been to "a meeting of the people Women in Literature 77 called Quakers;" "a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs....well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." At another time the sage thus delivered himself in the presence of a company including several ladies... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 pages
...shallower brain." TENNYSON. Locksley HalL ' 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" BOSWELL. Life of Johnson (Dr. Johnson), Fitzgerald's Ed., VoL I., p. 285. " Women and men of wit are... | |
 | Edward John Hardy - 1897 - 376 pages
...say, compared with excellence, nothing ; but very well for the person who wrote them." He said that a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not well done, but you are surprised to find it done at all. He would not admit that women excelled, even... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1899 - 346 pages
...considering 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...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... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1899 - 58 pages
...in grim, cold silence and then exclaimed, " Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on its hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." One of theleadingencyclopedias,! see,says," Dr. Johnson was one of the greatest conversationalists... | |
 | G. F. Monkshood - 1900 - 202 pages
...Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy. Legouvt. A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his...well, but you are surprised to find it done at all. Johnson. The only way to get the upper hand of a woman, is to be more woman than she is herself. Anonymous.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON : " Sir, m mere wantonness of appetite, he steals privately...chambermaid. Sir, a wife ought not greatly to resent this. I 5th), Dr Johnson did me the honour to pass a part of the morning with me at my chambers. He said, "that... | |
 | 1900 - 674 pages
...Boswell told Johnson that he had heard a Quaker woman preach. " A woman's preaching," said Johnson, " 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 friendly had the pair become, that when Boswell left England to continue his studies at Utrecht,... | |
 | Elias J. MacEwan - 1900 - 330 pages
...last. 8. Time flies, death urges, knells call, heaven invites, Hell threatens ; be timely wise. 9. Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs : it is not well done ; but you are surprised to find it done at all. 10. Go, poor devil, get thee gone; why should... | |
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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. 
