...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...

...carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world." Talking of ghosts, he said, "It is wonderful that...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...

...the effect of which, as Sir Joshua Reynolds observed to me, has been, that all who were of his school are distinguished for a love of truth and accuracy,...Friday, April 3, I dined with him in London, in a company1 where were present several eminent men, whom I shall not name, but distinguish their parts...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...solitude with 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...to 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...

...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...

...I O God, O God of grace ! Cover his face.' " Hurry, Hurry, Hurry "John Wesley," said Dr. Johnson," is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." If Dr. Johnson were living in America today he would find that all of us were afflicted with John Wesley's...