 | James Boswell - 1912 - 106 str.
...leaf of your pocket-book, and never doubt of it again." — Vol. IV, p. 201. 1778 — Mt. 69 He said, "John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." — Vol. IV, p. 231. 1778 — .ffit. 69 Johnson harangued against drinking wine. "A man (said he) may... | |
 | 1903 - 1038 str.
...infinite variety of characters." One objection Dr. Johnson had to Wesley's conversation was that he was never at leisure. "He is always obliged to go at a...loves to fold his legs and have out his talk as I do" — words that indicate clearly the difference between the two men. Johnson, after he received his... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 str.
...of 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." He was very silent this evening; and read in a variety of books ; suddenly throwing down one, and taking... | |
 | David Baines-Griffiths - 1919 - 168 str.
...of the men than a remark of Johnson's, made when he is sixty -nine and Wesley five years older ? " John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." 1 Admitting that, to the world, Wesley appears pre-eminently the man of action, it remains not only... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Lockyer - 1922 - 368 str.
...What passed at that interview ? It was a rare opportunity. A few years before, Johnson had remarked, " John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." Now at last the two old men, who perhaps had influenced the minds and hearts of their fellowcountrymen... | |
 | Harold Begbie - 1923 - 264 str.
...happiness which I ever saw." Dr. Johnson found no fault with him, save that he had no time for talk. "John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." Wesley's legs, as we have seen, were happier astride a horse on his way to a meeting.1 There is a famous... | |
 | William Harris Arnold - 1923 - 426 str.
...of comment repeated by Boswell gives us a personal glimpse of Wesley in the very words of Johnson: "John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." No wonder that a man who usually began the 131 day by preaching at five o'clock in the morning, and... | |
 | John Wesley Bready - 1927 - 474 str.
...could talk well on any subject." But one thing the renowned autocrat could not endure. Wesley was " never at leisure." " He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. That is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." 3 But... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1928 - 500 str.
...the terrible hatred of inherited melancholia. He loved to talk, and he hated to be alone. He said: "John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." But, of course, Wesley — a bright and glorious figure of the last century, to whom justice will some day... | |
 | Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 str.
...across, and Johnson did not like him any the better for it. " 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." Conversation came to be by far the largest pleasure of his life, as indeed it is that of most good... | |
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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. 
