...teach... but to be in silence"; "A talking girl and a clucking hen— both shall come to no good end"; "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"; "A man's word is his bond"; "Whenever a woman dies there is one...

...be willing to teach "The Sting of Death" next spring? "Sure," I said. Ghapter 12 Women at St. Mark's Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well, butyou are surprised to see it done at all. —Samuel Johnson, quoted by James Boswell, Tour to the...

...playwright. "The Deserted Village," I. 1 79-1 80 (1 770). Referring to the village preacher. A woman 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. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British author, lexicographer. Quoted...

...Boswell's witnessing a woman preaching at a Quaker meeting, Johnson let fly another immortal barb: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking...done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all."34 Women in politics promoted the reign of petty interests or worse yet personal favoritism, charged...

...prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England. 5082 Boswell - Life an, surprised to find it done at all. 5083 Boswell -Life Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable...

...century earlier when he commented on a similar intrusion into the male-dominated ecclesiastical world: "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."14 Her years of work were met with polite, perhaps surprised, silence....

...Kniilish ¡апциаце James Boswell Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) 28 July 1763; ii. Young 8 Í9: i 17 A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. II is not done well; but you are surprised to lind it done at all. James Boswell Life of Samuel Johnson...

...Which breed was she describing? 1343. In which Canterbury Tale, are Spaniels mentioned? 1344. Who wrote "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"? 1345. What was the name of Abram V Courtney's faithful dog who acted...

...Sisters (1914) also plays the piano both to challenge her father and to release her own frustrations. 30 '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.' See Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1787 (repr. Oxford University Press,...

...that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON. 'Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking...well; but you are surprized to find it done at all.'" The egalitarian Quakers did not recognize an authority standing between the believer and God, and thus...