 | Lainie Montaigne - 2004 - 222 str.
...Man I get your drift, Teddy, but one can get too serious — to "never be at leisure," as it were. "John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as 1 do." Samuel Johnson: BoswelFs Life of Johnson Somerset Maugham is of the same mind. "Do you know... | |
 | Colin E. Gunton - 2005 - 228 str.
...relatively new one? According to this book, John Wesley was the first busy man. Dr Johnson said of him, 'John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do.' Robert Banks' book spells out the symptoms of our disease: the fact that all our talk of the coming... | |
 | William Mathews - 2005 - 377 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...disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out Ms talk, as I do." Again, that great naval hero and sterling man, Lord Collingwood, gives the following... | |
 | Mark R. Schwen, Dorothy C. Bass - 2006 - 580 str.
...Methodist preacher who logged thousands of miles on horseback while traveling around England to preach, John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do. It would, in the whole of our cultural history, be hard to find better paradigms of these two contrasting... | |
 | 1925 - 1090 str.
...talkers chafed because he could never induce Wesley to play the Wedding Guest to his Ancient Mariner. John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do. Johnson even deigned to manoeuvre to get Wesley's society. He begged Martha Hall, John's sister, to... | |
 | Ernest R. Taylor - 1975 - 248 str.
...him. Dr Johnson, who appreciated Wesley's charm, bears ironical witness to his unceasing activity : John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do.2 When in 1753 he was too ill to preach or travel, he began to write his Notes on the New Testament,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1845 - 792 str.
...precisely the sort of advice we should have expected from one of whom Johnson has left this character : " John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as 1 do." To be sure it is, and to every body else. And Lord Collingwood, so forcible, unaffected, and... | |
 | 1880 - 862 str.
...body in an instant." He liked to enjoy his talk leisurely. "John Wesley's conversation," he said, " is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always...loves to fold his legs and have out his talk as I do." In conversation Johnson generally used the plainest and most forcible words. He talked on all occasions,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1903 - 880 str.
...well on any subject,' said the sage, who was provoked because he could not have more of his society: '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.' This was in 1778. James Boswell, of course, followed his leader ; but there... | |
 | 1845 - 778 str.
...precisely the sort of advice we should have expected from one of whom Johnson has left this character : " John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold nis legs and have put his talk, as I do." To be sure it is, and to every body else. And Lord Collingwood,... | |
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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. 
