| Henry Augustin Beers - 1899 - 346 pàgines
...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... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1899 - 58 pàgines
...in grim, cold silence and then exclaimed, " Sir, 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." One of theleadingencyclopedias,! see,says," Dr. Johnson was one of the greatest conversationalists... | |
| James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pàgines
...that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON : " , from mere wantonness of appetite, he steals privately...chambermaid. Sir, a wife ought not greatly to resent this. I 5th), Dr Johnson did me the honour to pass a part of the morning with me at my chambers. He said, "that... | |
| G. F. Monkshood - 1900 - 202 pàgines
...Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy. Legouvt. A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his...well, but you are surprised to find it done at all. Johnson. The only way to get the upper hand of a woman, is to be more woman than she is herself. Anonymous.... | |
| 1900 - 674 pàgines
...Boswell told Johnson that he had heard a Quaker woman preach. " A woman's preaching," said Johnson, " is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not...well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all." So friendly had the pair become, that when Boswell left England to continue his studies at Utrecht,... | |
| Elias J. MacEwan - 1900 - 330 pàgines
...last. 8. Time flies, death urges, knells call, heaven invites, Hell threatens ; be timely wise. 9. Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs : it is not well done ; but you are surprised to find it done at all. 10. Go, poor devil, get thee gone; why should... | |
| James Boswell - 1901 - 540 pàgines
...called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON. " Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dogVt walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised j to find it done at all." On Tuesday, August 2, (the day of my departure from London having been fixed... | |
| William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1902 - 456 pàgines
...largely upon such sayings as "Being in a ship is like being in gaol with the chance of drowning," or " A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his...well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." In such scraps of homely comment the practical sense of the age expressed itself as vividly and rememberably... | |
| 1903 - 1186 pàgines
...become what we now see him. Snch an access of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature. Chap. ix. 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. n,y. I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.1 /j,y. This... | |
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