 | Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) - 1904 - 296 str.
...autobiography. One day Wesley wrote : " Leisure and I have taken leave of each other." Then Sam Johnson said : " Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at...disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out, as I do." But Johnson was a half man and did not understand, any more than Pilate understood... | |
 | 1905 - 654 str.
...compliment he replied with a very appreciative letter of thanks. Of Wesley himself Johnson said, " John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." 544 545 Boswell has recorded Dr. Johnson's table-talk and epigrammatic remarks upon almost every conceivable... | |
 | Caleb Thomas Winchester - 1906 - 336 str.
...to go and visit some old woman." Johnson's other remark of similar tenor is more frequently quoted : "Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at...disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out, as I do." Johnson's statements give the cause of the comparative loneliness of Wesley's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 638 str.
...Wesley's conversation Johnson said that " He can talk well on any subject " ; and on another occasion " John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out bis talk, as I do." " TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. " DEAR SIR,— " WHAT can possibly have happened, that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 634 str.
...Wesley's conversation Johnson said that " He can talk well on any subject " ; and on another occasion " John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. 1 his is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out hU talk, as I do." " TO... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...any person appealing 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,3... | |
 | Edward John Hardy - 1910 - 326 str.
...that this request is not dictated by fear." " John Wesley's conversation is good," said Dr. Johnson, " 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." What would Johnson think, if he were alive now, of those busybodies who do no... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 str.
...Wesley, upon his laying the first stone of his new Dissenting meeting-house, near the City Road. He said, loved to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do."— JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1778, Life by Boswell,... | |
 | James L. Gordon - 1911 - 406 str.
...recorded by Boswell. The old philosopher has been talking with John Wesley, and this is what he says: "John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." The father of Methodism would not squander his time even to please the most famous character in the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1911 - 644 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...leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. 1 Literary Magazine, 1756, p. 37. a The following plausible, but over-prudent counsel on this subject... | |
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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. 
