 | Stephen Duncombe - 2002 - 474 pàgines
...Johnson's dictum concerning a woman preacher, transposed into terms of music: "Sir, a woman's composing 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.'"1 So accurately does history repeat itself. Thus, I concluded, shutting Mr Oscar Browning's life... | |
 | Charles Jaco - 2002 - 362 pàgines
...coalition in his misogynistic quote about women delivering sermons: "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." The Desert Shield/Desert Storm coalition of US, European, and Arab allies may not have been done well,... | |
 | 2002 - 112 pàgines
...books was considered as improbable as a woman preaching, which, Samuel Johnson said, was "like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." Indeed, it was not until the 19705 that trade-union regulations allowed women to work alongside men... | |
 | William A. Yarberry Jr., Brian DiMarsico, Thomas Phelps IV - 2002 - 352 pàgines
...system to shoulder mountains of Internet data is akin to one writer's quip about a dog walking on its hind legs — "It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." Exhibit 6 shows an analysis of the percent of DSL installations completed versus time required for... | |
 | Uskali Mäki - 2002 - 404 pàgines
...periodically. Indeed Real Business Cycle theorists remind one of what Dr. Johnson said of a dog walking on its hind legs: "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." Note that nothing has really changed between Lucas-Sargent and PrescottKydland: any unemployment we... | |
 | David P. Barash, Judith Eve Lipton - 2002 - 244 pàgines
...eighteenth-century English essayist and critic Dr. Samuel Johnson once wrote this about a dog walking on its hind legs: "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." We might say the same about monogamy: Considering how many strikes there are against it, how wobbly... | |
 | Robert B. Tucker - 2002 - 264 pàgines
...product innovation by many companies bring to mind Samuel Johnson's description of a dog walking on its hind legs. "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." Most firms today focus on, and have become steadily better at, taking costs out of the manufacturing... | |
 | Helen Lenskyj - 2002 - 280 pàgines
...coverage at times resembled the old and insulting adage about the dog walking on its hind legs: it's not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all. In a variation on this theme, one Toronto journalist reduced the incident to "the sporting equivalent... | |
 | Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey - 2003 - 516 pàgines
...logic, be able to do? I try not to apply too strictly to my own case Samuel Johnson's notorious remark: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking...well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." I prefer to conclude that interest and talent have led me to pursue, like Yeats, a theater where words... | |
 | Roger Ebert - 2003 - 988 pàgines
...those who try to live in cyberspace, I am reminded of Dr. Johnson's comment about a dog standing on its hind legs: "It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at alL" On the Line * PG, 85 m., 2oo1 Lance Bass (Kevin Gibbonsl, Emmanuelle Chriqui (Abbeyl, Joey Fatone (Rodl,... | |
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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. 
