 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 ページ
...considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learnt them both. Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on...legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to see it done at all. A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage married immediately after his... | |
 | 1915 - 556 ページ
...on the public platform. "Sir," he told Boswell, "a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on its hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." About the same time, Thomas Day's plan of training up for himself a eugenically perfect mate, not afraid... | |
 | Frederick William Morton - 1894 - 224 ページ
...Sentiment the sail. When Woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. A WOMAN'S preaching is like a dog's walking on his...well, but you are surprised to find it done at all. THE only way to get the upper hand of a woman is to be more woman than she is herself. ANONYMOUS. THE... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 342 ページ
...considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learnt them both. Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on...legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to see it done at all. A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage married immediately after his... | |
 | Agnes Repplier - 1894 - 258 ページ
...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 - 1896 - 722 ページ
...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 - 1896 - 270 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1896 - 240 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 ページ
...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... | |
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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. 
