...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...

...merely temporal, could be'gi*en for such indefatigable labour!" , . : One 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 is like a dog's walking on his hind legs....

...unexpected and very 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...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 done well...

...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...

...great mark of his affectionate regard. Next day, Sunday, July 31, I told him I had been that morning a; a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had...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...

...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...

...unexpected and very 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...where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON. " Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised...

...unexpected and very 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...where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON. " Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised...

...unexpected and very great mark of his affectionate regard. Next day, Sunday, July 3, I told him I had On Tuesday, August 2, (the day of my departure from London having been fixed for the 5th,) Dr. Johnson...