 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...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 on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all" (Life, I, 463). Less well... | |
 | Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 172 pages
...three-sentence paragraph in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson for the year 1763: The next day, Sunday, July 31,1 told him I had been that morning at a meeting of the...woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all' (Life 1: 463). ' This anecdote... | |
 | Don Herzog - History - 2000 - 580 pages
...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 on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all."34 Women in politics promoted... | |
 | Virginia Woolf - Fiction - 1998 - 488 pages
...women acting: the allusion, to which Woolf returns later in the chapter, is to the remark by Samuel Johnson: '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' (Boswell, Life of Johnson,... | |
 | Sue Roe, Susan Sellers - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 312 pages
...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 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,... | |
 | 2000 - 196 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Olaudah Equiano - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 436 pages
...famous episode recorded by James Boswell (1740-1795) in 1763 in his Life of Johnson (London, 1791): Next day, Sunday, July 31, I told him I had been that...woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all." The egalitarian Quakers did... | |
 | Vincent Carretta - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 416 pages
...James Boswell in 1763 in his Life of Johnson (London, 1791):"Next day, Sunday, July 31,1 told him 1 had been that morning at a meeting of the people called...woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all.'" The egalitarian Quakers... | |
 | Janet Sethre - History - 2003 - 248 pages
...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 on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all" (James Boswell, Life of Johnson.... | |
 | Vincent Carretta - Social Science - 2005 - 472 pages
...Boswell recorded a similar experience in 1763: "Next day, Sunday, July 31, 1 told [Samuel Johnson] I had been that morning at a meeting of the people...woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all.' " ' Unlike the established... | |
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I could not find words to express what I felt upon this unexpected and very great mark of his affectionate regard. Next day, Sunday, July 31, I told him I had been that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach.... 
