...table, than when his wife talks Greek." Again : " A woman's 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." He has a good deal to say about Death, and when in full activity showed even more than the .common...

...at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where he heard a woman preach. JOHNSON. " Sir, 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." . '.. .. " The Christian religion has very strong evidences. It, indeed, appears in some degree strange...

...that ' a wife was not the worse for being learned,' but would add, ' 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.' Possibly I should have given this as an illustration of the ' prejudices' for which Johnson was so...

...evening that he had been to hear a lady preach. " Sir," said JOHNSON, " 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." Of European ladies, he said that to die with husbands, or to live without them, are the two extremes...

...Friends, or Quakers, and heard a woman preach. " Sir," said Johnson, "a woman's preaching is like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised that it is done at all." DAVID GARRICK. COON after the formation of the Literary Club, Sir Joshua Reynolds...

...Turkish Spy. 78. A woman possessed of a decent and modest spirit marries but once. Chinese. 79. 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. Johnson. 80. A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. 81. A woman seldom...

...ladies, doubted the value of woman's literature, and compared a female writer to a dog walking on its hind legs : " It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." What would the sturdy old conservatist have said could he have looked forward to the future and seen...

...Life oj yoknsm, i. 122, ». 4. • • • 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. /*. ;. 4e3. 9 • • As the faculty of writing has been chiefly a masculine endowment, the reproach...

...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....the honour to pass a part of the morning with me at 1 Pp. 377-9. First Edition. London, 1775. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. — Editor....

...a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON : "Sir, a woman's 4 F ; 1 S: л part of the morning with me at my chambers. 114 AGE 54.] He saidj '* that he always felt an inclination...