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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. "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the ... - Página 145
por James Boswell - 1835
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The Theological Review, Volume 8

1871 - 608 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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The Christian miscellany, and family visiter, Volume 18

1872 - 398 páginas
...occasionally. Johnson said, " John Wesley's conversation is good. He can talk well upon any subject. But he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." That is an interesting incidental tribute to the punctuality and love of order which marked our venerable...
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Plain Pulpit Talk

Thomas Cooper - 1872 - 296 páginas
...noticed in Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson. "John Wesley's conversation is good," says the doctor ; " 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." And I have read somewhere, but cannot remember ' where, that Wesley dined with...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 páginas
...spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.' lie said, 'John Wesley's conversation is good, but he...always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagrceable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do.' On Friday, April...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with A journal of a tour to the ...

James Boswell - 1874 - 584 páginas
...and accuracy, which they would not have possessed in the same degree, if they had not been known to Johnson. Talking of ghosts, he said, " It is wonderful...Friday, April 3, I dined with him in London, in a company where were present several eminent men, whom I shall not name, but distinguish their parts...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with A journal of a tour to the ...

James Boswell - 1874 - 584 páginas
...and accuracy, which they would not have possessed in the same degree, if they had not been known to Johnson. Talking of ghosts, he said, " It is wonderful...Friday, April 3, I dined with him in London, in a company where were present several eminent men, whom I shall not name, but distinguish their parts...
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Getting On in the World; Or, Hints On Success in Life. by William Mathews ...

William Mathews - 1874 - 376 páginas
...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...
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Getting on in the World

William Mathews - 1874 - 386 páginas
...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...
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Southey's Common-place Book, Volume 2

Robert Southey - 1876 - 716 páginas
...Wesley's incontinent Haste.~\ "JOHN WESLEY'S conversation is good," •aid Du. JOHNSON, " but he i* never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." [Man's Unreadinet» to Goduards."] " I AM often grieved to observe, that although on His part the gifts...
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Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle

1877 - 816 páginas
...the shortness of his visits, and said, " John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never •it leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour....disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs, and have his talk out MI do." -. Brevity be*t expresses settled co/iviclion and force of will. There are 454...
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