...meeting of the |>eople called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON : " Sir, a wo* man's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you «re surprised to find it done at all." On Tuesday, August 2, (the day of my departure from London...

...characteristic of him, on hearing that Boswell had to "a meeting of the people 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:...

...at a meetinu of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach JOHNSON. " Sir, a woman tion to kill himself, it is not courage in him to do tlie 5th,) Dr. Johnson did me the honour to pass a part of the morning with me at my chambers. He said,...

...that he liad heard a woman preacli that morning at a Quakers' meeting, Johnson replied, ' Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprized to find it done at all.'" [Fervency of Pray er. ~\ IT is related of Edward Hopkins, one of...

...that he had heard a woman preach that morning at a Quakers' meeting, Johnson replied, ' Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you arc surprized to find it done at all.'" [Fervency of Prayer, ,] IT is related of Edward Hopkins, one...

...Quakers, where he had heard a woman preach. Johnson replied, " 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." And not only surprised, but disgusted : for what is more inconsistent with the modesty and domestic...

...woman preach. Johnson replied, " 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." more inconsistent with the modesty and domestic propriety of woman, than the office of public preaching...

...delivered himself of a scathing invective. No doubt he would have said equally, "Sir, a woman's writing is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not...well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." Edward Fitzgerald, nearly a century later, though he goes so far as to allow " taste to be the feminine...

...clergy give up their homely manner, religion will soon decay in that country." — Boswell, 156. A WOMAN preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs....well : but you are surprised to find it done at all. — Johnson, 157. I OWCE told you (Miss Reynolds) that ladies were timorous, and yet not cautious....

...Pulpit Eloquence. VH.— FEMALE PREACHERS. 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. — Boswett's Life of Johnson. As all our ideas are derived from sensation and reflection, it is impossible...