 | Ralph Keyes - 2007 - 416 pages
...called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. Johnson: 'Sir, a womans preaching is like a dogs walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.'" In some versions Johnson is misremembered as having referred to... | |
 | Helga Schwalm - 2007 - 422 pages
...neben Boswells Bildern von Johnsons Idiosynkrasien — ins kulturelle Gedächtnis eingehen werden: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking...done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all"335 etc. Was sich in der Kompositionsphase der Linearität widersetzte, transformiert Boswell so... | |
 | Nancy J. Hirschmann, Kirstie M. McClure - 2010 - 352 pages
...same subject in the next century: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hindlegs. It is not done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all."'4 Perhaps a similar conclusion might be reached about the roots of feminism in Lockean liberalism.... | |
 | James Boswell - 2008 - 1024 pages
...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...his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.' On Tuesday, August 2 (the day of my departure from London having... | |
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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. 
