...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...

...potent word of preacher. In any such endeavor, he said, the woman is going against her own nature: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking...well; but you are surprized to find it done at all" (James Boswell, Life of Johnson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 327). The fact that the...

...Bromhorough: Lechlade Press 199t. 5 Brian Glanville referring to Dr Johnson's comments ahout women preaching. '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' in Boswell Life Vol. 1 cited in Sue Lopez Women on the Ball London:...

...serious part." "The Great Cham" himself. Doctor Johnson, remarked, "Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to see it done at all." The nineteenth,century Tractarian clergyman. Edward Pusey. stated...

...REMARK REPORTED BY JAMES BOSWELL but HO longer often quoted in full, Samuel Johnson said, "Sir, 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." This address by Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning on the independent...

...Spectator. 23 Novemher 1985. reproduced with the permission of Nicholas Garland and The Spectator. '... a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well, hut you are surprised to find it done at all ' Samuel Johnson. 1 763. Its first aim was 'to combat...

...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.' " ' Unlike the established Church of England and Roman Catholicism, with their elaborately structured...

...a freelance TV producer, Miss Richman was making £15,000 a year when she made the remark in 1968. 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. SAMUEL JOHNSON, 1763 This famous remark by Johnson did not spring...

...eighteenth-century British literary giant Samuel Johnson, who compared a particular religious service to "a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." So, too, with the RCIA. In Miller's paraphrase of Johnson, we should...

...of successful western firms. Dilemmas of gender and diversity Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all.1 Management gurus now know how to boost the odds of getting a great...