 | 1871 - 608 str.
...my admiration of what I describe. I certainly have a little sympathy with what Dr. Johnson said of him : " John Wesley's conversation is good, but he...was the sacrifice which a man taught and bred and * Boswell's Life of Johnson, under date of March 31, 1778. qualified as he was, must have made in order... | |
 | 1872 - 398 str.
...occasionally. Johnson said, " John Wesley's conversation is good. He can talk well upon any subject. But he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." That is an interesting incidental tribute to the punctuality and love of order which marked our venerable... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1872 - 296 str.
...noticed in Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson. "John Wesley's conversation is good," says the doctor ; " but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to...disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs, and have his talk out, as I do." And I have read somewhere, but cannot remember ' where, that Wesley dined with... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 str.
...any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.' lie said, hink he did we disagrceable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do.' On Friday, April... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 str.
...any person appearing after death. All argument is against it ; but all belief is for it." He said, "John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." On Friday, April 3, I dined with him in London, in a company where were present several eminent men,... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 386 str.
...advice is just what might have been expected from one of whom Dr. Johnson has left this opinion : " John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." Again, that great naval hero and sterling man, Lord Collingwood, gives the following advice touching... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 376 str.
...advice is just what might have been expected from one of whom Dr. Johnson has left this opinion : " John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." Again, that great naval hero and sterling man, Lord Collingwood, gives the following advice touching... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1876 - 716 str.
...Wesley's incontinent Haste.~\ "JOHN WESLEY'S conversation is good," •aid Du. JOHNSON, " but he i* never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." [Man's Unreadinet» to Goduards."] " I AM often grieved to observe, that although on His part the gifts... | |
 | 1877 - 818 str.
...the shortness of his visits, and said, " John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never •it leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour....disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs, and have his talk out MI do." -. Brevity be*t expresses settled co/iviclion and force of will. There are 454... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 374 str.
...— so much of it, that is to say, as he could get. ' John Wesley's conversation is good,' he said, ' but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do.' For Methodistical students Johnson had no liking. Years later he defended the expulsion of six of them... | |
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John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do. 
