...at a Quaker's meeting, Johnson replied, ' Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprized to find it doae at all.' " [Fervency of Prayer.] IT is related of Edward Hopkins, one of the early Governors of...

...can be recited, but instead one can paraphrase Samuel Johnson: "Simulating the complex climate system is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done perfectly; but you are surprised it is done within a margin of twice.* Getting down to specific regions....

...can be recited, but instead one can paraphrase Samuel Johnson: "Simulating the complex climate system is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done perfectly; but you are surprised it is done within a margin of twice." Getting down to specific regions....

...to take part in it? ... No one would think of bringing a dog into church' (section 3). Johnson said: 'Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking...his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all' (31 July 1763, Boswell, p. 327). I have noted that Jacob is seen...

...subject in the next century: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hindlegs. lt is not done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all."1' Perhaps a similar conclusion might be reached about the roots of feminism in Lockean liberalism....

...A skeptic might accept this judgment, however, and still be mindful of Dr. Johnson's comment about a dog's walking on his hinder legs: "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." And indeed, Thackeray's draftsmanship, as it is displayed even in...

...of one sex's mimicry of the other. Boswell quotes Johnson as commenting on female Quaker preachers: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking...well; but you are surprized to find it done at all" (Life of Johnson, 327; entry for July 31, 1763). 61. In The Poetry of Pope's Dunciad, Sitter provides...

...declared women in turn too feminine for masculine pursuits; "'Sir,'" he famously addressed Boswell, " 'a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his...well; but you are surprized to find it done at all' " (Boswell, 327). Perhaps because upright dogs remain relatively rare while more and more women are...

...he is seen as patronizing the "pretty dears." The most familiar pronouncement seems to say it all: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking...well; but you are surprized to find it done at all" (Life, I, 463). Less well known but certainly more representative is Johnson's assertion that "Men...

...speak is heard as barking. Perhaps this parable was at the back of Samuel Johnson's mind when he said, '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' (Johnson: Oxford Dictionary of Quotations). There is another understanding...