 | Robert Southey - 1849 - 710 pages
...Johnson one day that he liad heard a woman preacli that morning at a Quakers' meeting, Johnson replied, ' Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprized to find it done at all.'" [Fervency of Pray er. ~\ IT is related of Edward Hopkins, one of... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1850 - 484 pages
...Johnson one day that he had heard a woman preach that morning at a Quakers' meeting, Johnsoa replied, ' Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprized to find it done at all.' " [fervency of Prayer. Lr is related of Edward Hopkins, one of the... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1849 - 714 pages
...Johnson one day that he had heard a woman preach that morning at a Quakers' meeting, Johnson replied, ' Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you arc surprized to find it done at all.'" [Fervency of Prayer, ,] IT is related of Edward Hopkins, one... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 476 pages
...Quakers, where he had heard a woman preach. Johnson replied, " 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." And not only surprised, but disgusted : for what is more inconsistent with the modesty and domestic... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 pages
...woman preach. Johnson replied, " 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." more inconsistent with the modesty and domestic propriety of woman, than the office of public preaching... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1896 - 640 pages
...delivered himself of a scathing invective. No doubt he would have said equally, "Sir, a woman's writing is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not...well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." Edward Fitzgerald, nearly a century later, though he goes so far as to allow " taste to be the feminine... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...Scotch clergy give up their homely manner, religion will soon decay in that country." — Boswell, 156. A WOMAN preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind...well : but you are surprised to find it done at all. — Johnson, 157. I OWCE told you (Miss Reynolds) that ladies were timorous, and yet not cautious.... | |
 | James William Gilbart - 1865 - 546 pages
...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 sensation and reflection, it is impossible... | |
 | James William Gilbart - 1865 - 552 pages
...Pulpit Eloquence. Vn.—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.—lioswelVs Life of Johnson. As all our ideas are derived from sensation and reflection, it is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 pages
...the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it. FEMALE PREACHERS. A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs....well : but you are surprised to find it done at all. EDUCATION OF CHILDREN. Sir, it is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall... | |
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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. 
