 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...woman 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." On Tuesday, August 2., (the...of my departure from London having been fixed for tlie 5th,) Dr. Johnson did me the honour to pass a part of the morning with me at my chambers. He said,... | |
 | James William Gilbart - Catholic Church - 1865 - 546 pages
...and, amid the songs of angels, proclaims the triumphs of Pulpit Eloquence. VH.— FEMALE PREACHERS. 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. — Boswett's Life of Johnson. As all our ideas are derived from... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised bcen fixcd for the 5th), Dr. Johnson did me the honour to pass a part of the morning with me at my... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 598 pages
...felt upon this unexpected and very great mark of his affectionate regard. Next day, Sunday, July 31, 1 told him I had been that morning at a meeting of the...surprized to find it done at all.' On Tuesday, August a (the day of my departure from London having been fixed for the 5th,) Dr. Johnson did me the honour... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 576 pages
...felt upon this unexpected and very great mark of his affectionate regard. Next day, Sunday, July 31, 1 told him I had been that morning at a meeting of the...surprized to find it done at all.' On Tuesday, August z (the day of my departure from London having been fixed for the 5th,) Dr. Johnson did me the honour... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 360 pages
...make a pudding as well as translate Epictetus." ' Boswell's Life of Johnsm, \. 122, ». 4. • • 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. H. \. 4e3. • • • As the faculty of writing has been chiefly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 pages
...woman 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." On Tuesday, August 2, (the...the honour to pass a part of the morning with me at 1 Pp. 377-9. First Edition. London, 1775. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. — Editor.... | |
 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised es Boswell л part of the morning with me at my chambers. 114 AGE 54.] He saidj '* that he always felt an inclination... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - Quotations, English - 1897 - 526 pages
...pain — Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain." TENNYSON. Locksley HalL ' 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" BOSWELL. Life of Johnson (Dr. Johnson), Fitzgerald's Ed., VoL I.,... | |
 | Thomas William Hodgson Crosland - Femininity - 1903 - 220 pages
...been the prime mover. A woman, a dog, and a walnut-tree, the more you beat them the better they be. 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. Women's hearts are made of stout leather ; there's a plaguey sight... | |
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Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on. his hinder legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprized to find it done at all. 
