| 1888 - 892 pągines
...ladies, doubted the value of woman's literature, and compared a female writer to a dog walking on its hind legs : " It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." What would the sturdy old conservatist have said could he have looked forward to the future and seen... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 356 pągines
...Life oj yoknsm, i. 122, ». 4. • • • 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. /*. ;. 4e3. 9 • • As the faculty of writing has been chiefly a masculine endowment, the reproach... | |
| James Boswell - 1889 - 566 pągines
...at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON. " Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs....the honour to pass a part of the morning with me at 1 Pp. 377-9. First Edition. London, 1775. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. — Editor.... | |
| James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pągines
...that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON : "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking...for the 5th,) Dr. Johnson did me the honour to pass л part of the morning with me at my chambers. 114 AGE 54.] He saidj '* that he always felt an inclination... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 pągines
...considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learnt them both. Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on...legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to see it done at all. A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage married immediately after his... | |
| Richard S. Peale - 1890 - 548 pągines
...soft, Gentle and low — an excellent thing in woman. Shakspere. Sir, a woman preaching is like я dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to And it done at all. "Johnson. The world was sad — the garden was a wild, And Man, the hermit, sighed... | |
| John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 pągines
...hecome what we now see him. Snch an access of stnpidity, sir, is not in Natnre. Chip. ix. Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; hat yon are snrprised to find it done at all. /ty. I look npon it, that he who does not mind his... | |
| 1915 - 556 pągines
...on the public platform. "Sir," he told Boswell, "a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on its hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." About the same time, Thomas Day's plan of training up for himself a eugenically perfect mate, not afraid... | |
| Frederick William Morton - 1894 - 224 pągines
...Sentiment the sail. When Woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. A WOMAN'S preaching is like a dog's walking on his...well, but you are surprised to find it done at all. THE only way to get the upper hand of a woman is to be more woman than she is herself. ANONYMOUS. THE... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 342 pągines
...considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learnt them both. Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on...legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to see it done at all. A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage married immediately after his... | |
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