 | John Franklin Genung - Bible - 1906 - 444 pages
...in which the whole Bible shares, that Dr. Johnson had for a woman's preaching. "Sir," he once said, "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." Well, to be sure, we must grant every nation its distinctive genius.... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 574 pages
...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." On Tuesday, August 2, (the...my departure from London having been fixed for the sth,) Dr. Johnson did me the honour to pass a part of the morning with me at my chambers. He said,... | |
 | Florence Anne MacCunn - Authors, Scottish - 1909 - 488 pages
...lovely woman's cause," as Campbell gallantly phrases it; partly from Dr Johnson's cynical reason — " 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." The chief reason of the interest excited by the literary work of... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 566 pages
...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." On Tuesday, August 2 (the...having been fixed for the 5th), Dr. Johnson did me the honor to pass a part of the morning with me at my chambers. He said, that "he always felt an inclination... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 468 pages
...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." On Tuesday, August 2 (the...my departure from London having been fixed for the sth), Dr. Johnson did me the honor to pass a part of the morning with me at my chambers. He said, that... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 806 pages
...woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild eestasy ? 10 Heard melodies 1 author of The Seasons, etc. 2 an Irishman who acted, taught elocution, and published a pronouncing... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs It is not done well; but you are surprised ut in the heath The erring blade found bloodless sheath. 30 The struggling foe may now unclasp The fai lor 1 author of The Seasons, etc. 2 an Irishman who acted, taught elocution, and published a pronouncing... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - Books and reading - 1921 - 332 pages
...knowing as much as themselves." " Even ill-assorted marriages are preferable to cheerless celibacy." " 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." " A peace will equally leave the warrior and relater of wars destitute... | |
 | Arthur Granville Bradley - 1923 - 384 pages
...cricket, in fact, in early days it could only be said, as Dr. Johnson remarked of the female preacher, "It is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs ; it is not done well, but you are surprised to see it done at all." Little by little the bigger fellows drew together. Further ground... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised our subject. I have left the repository of our English...kings for " state The godlike hero sate On his im 1 author of The Seasons, etc. J an Irishman who acted, taught elocution, and published i pronouncing... | |
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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. 
