| David P. Barash, Judith Eve Lipton - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 244
...eighteenth-century English essayist and critic Dr. Samuel Johnson once wrote this about a dog walking on its hind legs: "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." We might say the same about monogamy: Considering how many strikes there are against it, how wobbly... | |
| Robert B. Tucker - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 264
...product innovation by many companies bring to mind Samuel Johnson's description of a dog walking on its hind legs. "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." Most firms today focus on, and have become steadily better at, taking costs out of the manufacturing... | |
| William A. Yarberry Jr., Brian DiMarsico, Thomas Phelps IV - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...system to shoulder mountains of Internet data is akin to one writer's quip about a dog walking on its hind legs — "It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." Exhibit 6 shows an analysis of the percent of DSL installations completed versus time required for... | |
| Uskali Mäki - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...periodically. Indeed Real Business Cycle theorists remind one of what Dr. Johnson said of a dog walking on its hind legs: "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." Note that nothing has really changed between Lucas-Sargent and PrescottKydland: any unemployment we... | |
| Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...logic, be able to do? I try not to apply too strictly to my own case Samuel Johnson's notorious remark: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking...well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." I prefer to conclude that interest and talent have led me to pursue, like Yeats, a theater where words... | |
| Roger Ebert - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 988
...those who try to live in cyberspace, I am reminded of Dr. Johnson's comment about a dog standing on its hind legs: "It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at alL" On the Line * PG, 85 m., 2oo1 Lance Bass (Kevin Gibbonsl, Emmanuelle Chriqui (Abbeyl, Joey Fatone (Rodl,... | |
| Berys Gaut, Paisley Livingston - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 312
...Virtuosity," Journal of Philosophy 77 (1980): 28-45. 23. "Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog walking on hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." 24. The French roman nouveau of Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, and others might be mentioned... | |
| Roger Ebert - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 980
...those who try to live in cyberspace, I am reminded of Dr. Johnson's comment about a dog standing on its hind legs: "It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at alL" Open Hearts * * * R, 114m., 2BB3 Sonja Rlchter (Ceciliel, Mads Mikkelsen (Nielsl, Paprika Steen (Mariel,... | |
| Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 321
...upon this unexpected and very great mark of his affectionate regard. [148] Next day, Sunday, July 31,I told him I had been that morning at a meeting of the...well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." [149] On Tuesday, August 2, (the day of my departure from London having been fixed for the 5th,) Dr.... | |
| Virginia Woolf - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 1028
...Johnson's dictum concerning a woman preacher, transposed into terms of music. "Sir, a woman's composing 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 accurately does history repeat itself. Thus, I concluded, shutting Mr Oscar Browning's life and... | |
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