...heard a woman preach. He hastened to tell Johnson about this singular experience. "Sir," said Johnson, "a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his...well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." 19 The volume of poems allegedly written by the Highland bard Ossian and translated by James Macpherson...

...it, and Richard loved that. But he abhorred Samuel Johnson's observation about a dog walking on its hind legs — "It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all" — so it was not mentioned in the program that the drummers had other professions. A month later,...

...truly working-class thinker from his homeland was like that of Dr Johnson to the dog walking on its hind legs: it is not done well but you are surprised to find it done at all - and, consequently, you reward the performing mutt with extravagant praise. 'Where among the bourgeoisie...

...Environmental Instruments: An Exercise in Comparison William Bush Dr. Johnson remarked of a dog walking on its hind legs, 'It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all'. Wonderment about the environmental regimes of the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) depends on what one...

...Spaniels mentioned? 1344. Who wrote "Sir, 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"? 1345. What was the name of Abram V Courtney's faithful dog who acted as his guide, companion, and bodyguard?...

...to release her own frustrations. 30 'Sir, 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.' See Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1787 (repr. Oxford University Press, 1946), I, p. 309. 3 1 Barthes,...

...Eighteenth-Century Quakerism, 112, 115. Boswell's experience apparently prompted Samuel Johnson's famous remark. "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. . . ." See James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LLD [i79i] (New York, 1931), 279. Peter Quennell,...

...Women's preaching did not find favour with Dr. Johnson,6 — "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." But in Johnson's time learned or cultivated women were much more rare than they are now, and they are...

...Ricardo Effekt«, in: FA v. Hayek, Individualismus, aaO., S. 281-323, insb. S. 281 Anm. 3. 10 »It's not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.« Anm. d. Übers.: Dieses in England wohlbekannte Zitat bezieht sich ursprünglich darauf, daß eine...

...it is to contemplate, Dr. King's professors marveled at his academic performance not because it was "done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all"' (84). Lewis speculates that, in the face of the racial double standard of his professors, and 'finding...