...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 my chambers. He said, that "he always felt an inclination to do nothing." I observed, that it was strange...

...Sunday Boswell told him he had been that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where he heard a woman preach. JOHNSON. " Sir, a woman's preaching...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...

...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...

...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...

...had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON. " Sir, a woman's preaching AGE 54-] TO TEA WITH MISS WILLIAMS. 351 is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not...the honour to pass a part of the morning with me at my chambers. He said, that " he always felt an inclination to do nothing." I observed, that it was...

...obedience. 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...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...

...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 my chambers. He said, that " he always felt an inclination to do nothing." I observed, that it was...

...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....

...felt upon this unexpected and very great mark of his affectionate regard. Next day, Sunday, July 3, Uv f e: л part of the morning with me at my chambers. 114 AGE 54.] He saidj '* that he always felt an inclination...