...in his famous criticism of female preaching. " Sir, 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." It is a sentiment which, iu one form or another, prevailed throughout the last century, and lapped...

...morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers," where he heard a woman preach, Johnson replied : " Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on...well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." Women Women preachers often visited the Nantucket meeting.1 On winter Sundays there was a wood fire...

...came to pass that Miss Austen wrote it I can easily imagine. Of her Johnson never could have said, " A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his...well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." She never ascended a pulpit ; but her father was a parson. In my boyhood I spent not a few of my holidays...

...Southey, MADOC IN WALES, ii, 2. With all thy faults I love thee still. Cowper, THE TASK, ii. 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. Dr. Johnson, IN BOSWELL'S LIFE, II, ix. And for the fighting part, we may in time Grow up to swagger...

...The worst speaks something good. o. HERBERT— The Temple. The, Church Porch. St. 72. Sir, a woman es to be. d. ROBEBT BROWNING — A Death in the Desert....The law of life, man is not Man as yet. e. ROBERT B p. SAM'L JOHNSON — BotwelVs Life of Johnson. 1763. As pleasant songs, at morning sung. The words...

...delivered himself of a scathing invective. No doubt he would have said equally, " Sir, a woman's writing is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not...done well ; but you are surprised to find it done afc all." Edward Fitzgerald, nearly a century later, though he goes so far as to allow " taste to be...

...that Boswell had been to "a meeting of the people Women in Literature 77 called Quakers;" "a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs....well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." At another time the sage thus delivered himself in the presence of a company including several ladies...

...one.» «Next Sunday, July 3ist, I told him I had been at a meeting of the people called (¿uakers, where I had heard a woman preach. Johnson: ' Sir,...well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.'» The best-known edition is Croker's, upon which Macaulay poured out the vials of his wrath ; but the...

...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...

...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...