 | John Bartlett - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 890
...and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. Ibid. An. 1763. 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. Ibid. An. 1763. A very unclubable man. ibid. An. 1764. That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...Christ."3 If we speak to him of a Quaker's meeting, and of a woman preaching, he will tell us that "a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs;...done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all."4 He is a Conservative, and does not fear being considered antiquated. He went at one o'clock... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...the ' Saint Graal. ' not find favour with Dr. Johnson, — "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... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...forget to think of you, and then you will cease to exist." — Boswell. Next day, Sunday, July 3d, I told him I had been that morning at a meeting of...but you are surprised to find it done at all."— Boswell. " Hume and other sceptical innovators are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expense.... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...perhaps forget to think of you, and then you will cease to exist."—Boswell. Next day, Sunday, July 3d, I told him I had been that morning at a meeting of...done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."—Moswell. " Hume and other sceptical innovators are vain men, and will gratify themselves at... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 254
...first, but in the meantime your breech is cold.' WOMEN PREACHING. ' Sir, a woman 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.' Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). SOCIAL RANK. Bosivell — ' I consider distinction of rank to be of so... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 254
...first, but in the meantime your breech is cold.' WOMEN PREACHING. ' Sir, a woman 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.' Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). SOCIAL RANK. Boswell—' 1 consider distinction of rank to be of so much... | |
 | 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 556
...Boswell told Johnson that he had heard a Quaker woman preach. "A woman's prea'chiug," said Johnson, "is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. 'It is...well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all." v So friendly had the pair become, that when Boswell left England to continue his studies at Utrecht,... | |
 | Cyril Church - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 854
...table, than when his wife talks Greek." Again : " 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." He has a good deal to say about Death, and when in full activity showed even more than the .common... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 942
...between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. Ibid. Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you arc surprised to find it done at all. Itntt. A very unclubable man. An. 1764. That fellow seems to... | |
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Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all. 
