 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1869 - 518 pàgines
...Eckermann's Convertatiom with Goethe. ' ' Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his bind legs It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.' — Dr. woman has been the storehouse, the supplying fountain ; of it she has drunk most deeply, most... | |
 | 1880 - 556 pàgines
...Boswell told Johnson that he had heard a Quaker woman preach. "A woman's prea'chiug," said Johnson, "is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. 'It is...well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all." v So friendly had the pair become, that when Boswell left England to continue his studies at Utrecht,... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 pàgines
...Dover, to show light at Calais." 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. When Boswell said he had heard a woman preach " at a meeting of the people called Quakers." I refute... | |
 | Cyril Church - 1883 - 854 pàgines
...table, than when his wife talks Greek." Again : " A woman's preaching is like a dog walking on its hind legs — it is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." He has a good deal to say about Death, and when in full activity showed even more than the .common... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pàgines
...between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. Ibid. Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you arc surprised to find it done at all. Itntt. A very unclubable man. An. 1764. That fellow seems to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pàgines
...been that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where he heard a woman preach. JOHNSON. " Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on...well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." . '.. .. " The Christian religion has very strong evidences. It, indeed, appears in some degree strange... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 pàgines
...evening that he had been to hear a lady preach. " Sir," said JOHNSON, " 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." Of European ladies, he said that to die with husbands, or to live without them, are the two extremes... | |
 | Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - 1884 - 312 pàgines
...that ' a wife was not the worse for being learned,' but would add, ' a woman 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.' Possibly I should have given this as an illustration of the ' prejudices' for which Johnson was so... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 172 pàgines
...Friends, or Quakers, and heard a woman preach. " Sir," said Johnson, "a woman's preaching is like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised that it is done at all." DAVID GARRICK. COON after the formation of the Literary Club, Sir Joshua Reynolds... | |
 | 1887 - 1332 pàgines
...obedience. Turkish Spy. 78. A woman possessed of a decent and modest spirit marries but once. Chinese. 79. A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his...well but you are surprised to find it done at all. Johnson. 80. A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. 81. A woman seldom... | |
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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. 
