...one.» «Next Sunday, July 3ist, I told him I had been at a meeting of the people called (¿uakers, where I had heard a woman preach. Johnson: ' Sir,...well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.'» The best-known edition is Croker's, upon which Macaulay poured out the vials of his wrath ; but the...

...considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learnt them both. Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on...legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to see it done at all. A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage married immediately after his...

...in grim, cold silence and then exclaimed, " Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on its hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." One of theleadingencyclopedias,! see,says," Dr. Johnson was one of the greatest conversationalists...

...great mark of his affectionate regard. Next day, Sunday, July 3, I told him I had been that morning does not do his wife a very material injury, if he...chambermaid. Sir, a wife ought not greatly to resent this. I 5th), Dr Johnson did me the honour to pass a part of the morning with me at my chambers. He said, "that...

...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...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." On Tuesday, August...

...Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy. Legouvt. A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his...well, but you are surprised to find it done at all. Johnson. The only way to get the upper hand of a woman, is to be more woman than she is herself. Anonymous....

...Boswell told Johnson that he had heard a Quaker woman preach. " A woman's preaching," said Johnson, " is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not...well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all." So friendly had the pair become, that when Boswell left England to continue his studies at Utrecht,...

...last. 8. Time flies, death urges, knells call, heaven invites, Hell threatens ; be timely wise. 9. Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs : it is not well done ; but you are surprised to find it done at all. 10. Go, poor devil, get thee gone; why should...

...largely upon such sayings as "Being in a ship is like being in gaol with the chance of drowning," or " A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his...well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." In such scraps of homely comment the practical sense of the age expressed itself as vividly and rememberably...

...become what we now see him. Snch an access of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature. Chap. ix. 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. n,y. I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.1 /j,y. This...