 | Hippolyte Taine - 1876 - 472 páginas
...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 - 378 páginas
...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 - 346 páginas
...you will cease to exist." — Boswell. Next day, Sunday, July 3d, I told him I had been that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I...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 - 348 páginas
...you will cease to exist."—Boswell. Next day, Sunday, July 3d, I told him I had been that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I...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 - 254 páginas
...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... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - 254 páginas
...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... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1869 - 518 páginas
...Eckermann's Convertatiom with Goethe. ' ' Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his bind legs It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.' — Dr. woman has been the storehouse, the supplying fountain ; of it she has drunk most deeply, most... | |
 | 1880 - 556 páginas
...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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1880 - 488 páginas
...great mark of his affectionate regard.1 Next day, Sunday, July 31, I told him I had been that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON. " Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 páginas
...Dover, to show light at Calais." 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. When Boswell said he had heard a woman preach " at a meeting of the people called Quakers." I refute... | |
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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. 
