| 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... | |
| - 1881 - 854 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 at leisure. He is alicayt obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs... | |
| William Mathews - 1883 - 396 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 - 1883 - 398 str.
...expected from one of whom Dr. Johnson has left this opinion : " John Wesley's conversation is good, bill he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at n certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk,... | |
| James Macaulay - 1884 - 164 str.
...of putting the State in motion ; now there is no power : all order is relaxed " (1778). JOHN WESLEY. JOHN WESLEY'S conversation is good, but he is never...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." * ' * He said, "John Wesley can talk well on any subject." Boswell asked what he thought of a ghost... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 str.
...fatiguing voyage, and was just getting into port, this Lord sent out a small cock-boat to pilot me in." John Wesley's conversation is good; but he is never...disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out, as I do. Gray's Odes, he once said, are " forced plants, raised in a hotbed; and they... | |
| James Boswell - 1884 - 634 str.
...of any person appearing after death. AH 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. ' Literary Magazine, 1756, p. 37. Johnson's Works, Oxford Ed., vol. vi., p. 42.—Editor. 2 The following... | |
| James Boswell - 1884 - 634 str.
...To pass the lips man never should allow ; Though crime be absent, still disgrace is nigh." Editor. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves 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,... | |
| James Boswell - 1885 - 436 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,1... | |
| John Telford - 1885 - 172 str.
...hours, madam ! I could talk all day and all night too with your brother." He once said to Boswell, "John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs, and have his talk out, as I do." On another occasion he said, " I hate to meet John Wesley : the dog enchants... | |
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