...called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON. " Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dogVt walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised j to find it done at all." On Tuesday, August 2, (the day of my departure from London having been fixed...

...the intervals of speaking, and of " blowing out his breath like a whale" when he had finished,—all these have come down to us, together with the record...couplets. To Boswell's " Life," then, Johnson owes his latter-day reputation as an eccentric, and as a sayer of good things. But there is another Johnson...

...become what we now see him. Snch an access of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature. Chap. ix. 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. n,y. I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.1 /j,y. This...

...it, and Richard loved that. But he abhorred Samuel Johnson's observation about a dog walking on its hind legs — "It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all" — so it was not mentioned in the program that the drummers had other professions. A month later,...

...truly working-class thinker from his homeland was like that of Dr Johnson to the dog walking on its hind legs: it is not done well but you are surprised to find it done at all - and, consequently, you reward the performing mutt with extravagant praise. 'Where among the bourgeoisie...

...Environmental Instruments: An Exercise in Comparison William Bush Dr. Johnson remarked of a dog walking on its hind legs, 'It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all'. Wonderment about the environmental regimes of the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) depends on what one...

...to release her own frustrations. 30 '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.' See Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1787 (repr. Oxford University Press, 1946), I, p. 309. 3 1 Barthes,...

...Spaniels mentioned? 1344. Who wrote "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"? 1345. What was the name of Abram V Courtney's faithful dog who acted as his guide, companion, and bodyguard?...

...Quakerism, 112, 115. Boswell's experience apparently prompted Samuel Johnson's famous remark. "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. . . ." See James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LLD [i79i] (New York, 1931), 279. Peter Quennell,...

...Women's preaching did not find favour with Dr. Johnson,6 — "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...