 | James William Gilbart - 1865 - 552 pàgines
...Pulpit Eloquence. Vn.—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.—lioswelVs Life of Johnson. As all our ideas are derived from sensation and reflection, it is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 pàgines
...fame ; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it. FEMALE PREACHERS. A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his...well : but you are surprised to find it done at all. EDUCATION OF CHILDREN. Sir, it is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pàgines
...; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. Ibid. An. 1763. Johnson continued.] 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. Boswell's Life of Johnson. An. 1763. A very unclubable man. ibid. An. 1764. A man may write at any... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1869 - 530 pàgines
...a curious fact in this connection. Of this literature 1 Eckermann's Conve nations with Goethe. * ' Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on...well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.' — Dr. Johnson. woman has been the storehouse, the supplying fountain ; of it she has drunk most deeply,... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1870 - 312 pàgines
...that he had heard a woman preach that morning at a Quaker's meeting, Johnson replied, " 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." We will add that our surprise is all the greater when women of piety mount the pulpit, for they are... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1870 - 294 pàgines
...that he had heard a woman preach that morning at a Quaker's meeting, Johnson replied, " 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." We will add that our surprise is all the greater when women of piety mount the pulpit, for they are... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pàgines
...If you speak to him of a Quakers' meeting, and of a woman preaching, he will tell you that ' a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs...well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.' * He is a Conservative, and does not fear being considered antiquated. He went at one o'clock in the... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 568 pàgines
...If you speak to him of a Quakers' meeting, and of a woman preaching, he will tell you that ' a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs...well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.' 6 He is a Conservative, and does not fear being considered antiquated. He went at one o'clock in the... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pàgines
...that morning at a mceting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON : ' Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on...August 2 (the day of my departure from London having bcen fixcd for the 5th), Dr. Johnson did me the honour to pass a part of the morning with me at my... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pàgines
...Johnson that he had been at a Quaker's meeting in the morning, and had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON : " Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on...surprised to find it done at all." On Tuesday, August 2nd, Boswell had the desire of his heart at last, in being taken to Mrs. Williams's to drink tea. This... | |
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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. 
