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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. "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ... - Página 65
por James Boswell - 1821
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The Southern Review, Volumen5

Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1869 - 530 páginas
...a curious fact in this connection. Of this literature 1 Eckermann's Conve nations with Goethe. * ' Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on...well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.' — Dr. Johnson. woman has been the storehouse, the supplying fountain ; of it she has drunk most deeply,...
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Feathers for Arrows; Or, Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My ...

Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1870 - 312 páginas
...that he had heard a woman preach that morning at a Quaker's meeting, Johnson replied, " 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." We will add that our surprise is all the greater when women of piety mount the pulpit, for they are...
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Feathers for Arrows: Or, Illustrations from My Note Book

Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1870 - 294 páginas
...that he had heard a woman preach that morning at a Quaker's meeting, Johnson replied, " 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." We will add that our surprise is all the greater when women of piety mount the pulpit, for they are...
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History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun, Volumen2

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 páginas
...If you speak to him of a Quakers' meeting, and of a woman preaching, he will tell you that ' a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs...well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.' * He is a Conservative, and does not fear being considered antiquated. He went at one o'clock in the...
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History of English Literature, Volumen2

Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 568 páginas
...If you speak to him of a Quakers' meeting, and of a woman preaching, he will tell you that ' a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs...well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.' 6 He is a Conservative, and does not fear being considered antiquated. He went at one o'clock in the...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell - 1873 - 620 páginas
...great mark of his affectionate regard. Next day, Sunday, July 31, I told Lim l had been that morning at a meeting of the people, called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON : ' Sir, л woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with A journal of a tour to the ...

James Boswell - 1874 - 602 páginas
...great mark of his affectionate regard. Next day, Sunday, July 31, I told him I had been that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I...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." On Tuesday, August...
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The Blue and Gold, Volumen16

1889 - 352 páginas
...being he included woman." C — ALC w — L. — " Kir, a woman 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." R — K M. DB — s. — " You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage." N EF...
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Journal: Appendix. Reports

California. Legislature - 1874 - 556 páginas
...clever than other people?" Gruff 0¡, Sam Johnson most migallantly remarked that "woman's preaching} like a dog's walking on his hind legs; it is not done well, but you ar. surprised to find it done at all." And so very likely the above questioi is engendered of the surprise...
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 páginas
...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,...
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