 | 1855 - 786 páginas
...of course, did he know leisure. All his day was assigned to work. This was Dr. Johnson's complaint. "John Wesley's conversation is good; but he is never...always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagrceable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out, at I do." Wesley wrote much.... | |
 | Robert Tate Gaskin - 1863 - 114 páginas
...came. This led Dr. Johnson to say he was always ia a hurry. " He is never at leisure," said he ; " he is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This...disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out, as I do." His preaching was clear and impressive, and at times his voice could scarcely... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 páginas
...would not have possessed in the same degree if they had not been acquainted with Johnson. — Boswell. JOHN WESLEY'S conversation is good, but he is never...loves to fold his legs and have out his talk as I do. — Johnson. THERE must always be right enough, or appearance of right, to keep wrong in countenance.... | |
 | John Richard Andrews (barrister.) - 1864 - 456 páginas
...Johnson had a higher opinion. " John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure ; ho is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is...loves to fold his legs, and have out his talk as I do. John Wesley can talk well on any subject." Hume, the historian, remarked, after hearing Whitefield... | |
 | William White - 1867 - 704 páginas
...his wish to no one. Wesley was a slave of the clock—a remorseless devotee to method. Dr. Johnson said, " John Wesley's conversation " is good, but...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I " do." Wesley might burn with desire to see Swedenborg, but he must be faithful to his engagements. He therefore... | |
 | William M. White - 1867 - 710 páginas
...— a remorseless devotee to method. Dr. Johnson said, " John Wesley's conversation " is good, hut he is never at leisure. He is always obliged " to...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I " do." Wesley might burn with desire to see Swedenborg, but he must he faithful to his engagements. He therefore... | |
 | William White - 1867 - 710 páginas
...to method. Dr. Johnson said, " John Wesley's conversation " is good, but he is never at leisure. lie is always obliged " to go at a certain hour. This...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I " do." Wesley might burn with desire to see Swedenborg, but he must be faithful to his engagements. He therefore... | |
 | 1869 - 398 páginas
...says of the great evangelist of the eighteenth century : — " He can talk well on any subject." " John Wesley's conversation is good ; but he is never...to a man who loves to fold his legs, and have out hiS'talk, aз I do." * Dr. Johnson was, from his youth up, devout and conscientious, but in middle... | |
 | Joseph Beaumont Wakeley - 1869 - 404 páginas
...rule, and his redemption of time. Boswell, the biographer of Johnson, says the Doctor observed to him, "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." John Wesley and the Redemption of Time. John Wesley while waiting at a door... | |
 | Charles Beard - 1871 - 602 páginas
...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 is never...to fold his legs and have out his talk as I do."* But the sympathy fades away in the presence of a higher emotion, when I recollect how great was the... | |
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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. 
