 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 374 páginas
...— 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... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 374 páginas
...— 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 páginas
...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 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 - 396 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... | |
 | William Mathews - 1883 - 398 páginas
..." 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...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... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 164 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...of a lie, To pass the lips man never should allow ; Though crime be absent, still disgrace is nigh." This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold...Friday, April 3, I dined with him in London, in a company J where were present several eminent men, whom I shall not name, but distinguish their parts... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 436 páginas
...the effect of which, as Sir Joshua Reynolds observed to me, has been, that all who were of his sclwol are distinguished for a love of truth and accuracy,...Friday, April 3, I dined with him in London, in a company where were present several eminent men,1 whom I shall not name, but distinguish their parts... | |
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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. 
