 | Agnes Repplier - Literature - 1894 - 258 pages
...in his famous criticism of female preaching. " Sir, 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." It is a sentiment which, in one form or another, prevailed throughout the last century, and lapped... | |
 | William Root Bliss - Nantucket (Mass.) - 1896 - 722 pages
...morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers," where he heard a woman preach, Johnson replied : " Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on...well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." Women Women preachers often visited the Nantucket meeting.1 On winter Sundays there was a wood fire... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Autographs - 1896 - 270 pages
...came to pass that Miss Austen wrote it I can easily imagine. Of her Johnson never could have said, " A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his...well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." She never ascended a pulpit ; but her father was a parson. In my boyhood I spent not a few of my holidays... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1896 - 240 pages
...Southey, MADOC IN WALES, ii, 2. With all thy faults I love thee still. Cowper, THE TASK, ii. 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. Dr. Johnson, IN BOSWELL'S LIFE, II, ix. And for the fighting part, we may in time Grow up to swagger... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...The worst speaks something good. o. HERBERT— The Temple. The, Church Porch. St. 72. Sir, a woman es to be. d. ROBEBT BROWNING — A Death in the Desert....The law of life, man is not Man as yet. e. ROBERT B p. SAM'L JOHNSON — BotwelVs Life of Johnson. 1763. As pleasant songs, at morning sung. The words... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1896 - 902 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...done well ; but you are surprised to find it done afc all." Edward Fitzgerald, nearly a century later, though he goes so far as to allow " taste to be... | |
 | Elizabeth Rachel Chapman - Marriage - 1897 - 268 pages
...that Boswell had been to "a meeting of the people Women in Literature 77 called Quakers;" "a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs....well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." At another time the sage thus delivered himself in the presence of a company including several ladies... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - Quotations, English - 1897 - 526 pages
...shallower brain." TENNYSON. Locksley HalL ' 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" BOSWELL. Life of Johnson (Dr. Johnson), Fitzgerald's Ed., VoL I., p. 285. " Women and men of wit are... | |
 | Edward John Hardy - Biography - 1897 - 376 pages
...say, compared with excellence, nothing ; but very well for the person who wrote them." He said that 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. He would not admit that women excelled, even... | |
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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. 
