 | 1896 - 1224 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
 | William Root Bliss - 1896 - 722 strani
...minister was too many visits to the Presbyterian priest. When Boswell told Dr. Johnson that he " had been that 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 his... | |
 | Elizabeth Rachel Chapman - 1897 - 268 strani
...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... | |
 | D. Vidas - 2000 - 476 strani
...Environmental Instruments: An Exercise in Comparison William Bush Dr. Johnson remarked of a dog walking on its hind legs, 'It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all'. Wonderment about the environmental regimes of the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) depends on what one... | |
 | 2000 - 196 strani
...Spaniels mentioned? 1344. Who wrote "Sir, 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"? 1345. What was the name of Abram V Courtney's faithful dog who acted as his guide, companion, and bodyguard?... | |
 | Sue Roe, Susan Sellers - 2000 - 312 strani
...to release her own frustrations. 30 'Sir, 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.' See Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1787 (repr. Oxford University Press, 1946), I, p. 309. 3 1 Barthes,... | |
 | Rebecca Larson - 2000 - 422 strani
...Eighteenth-Century Quakerism, 112, 115. Boswell's experience apparently prompted Samuel Johnson's famous remark. "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. . . ." See James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LLD [i79i] (New York, 1931), 279. Peter Quennell,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1869 - 248 strani
...Women's preaching did not find favour with Dr. Johnson,6 — "Sir, 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." But in Johnson's time learned or cultivated women were much more rare than they are now, and they are... | |
 | Friedrich A. von Hayek - 2001 - 304 strani
...Ricardo Effekt«, in: FA v. Hayek, Individualismus, aaO., S. 281-323, insb. S. 281 Anm. 3. 10 »It's not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.« Anm. d. Übers.: Dieses in England wohlbekannte Zitat bezieht sich ursprünglich darauf, daß eine... | |
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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. 
