...vexed because he was not able to have more of his company. " John Wesley's conversation," said he, " is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always...disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do." He met Swedenborg in London shortly before the baron's death, and received from...

...enchants you with his conversation, and then breaks away to go and visit some old woman/' And again : " John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very diagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do/' One feels that Dr....

...Wesley's conversation is good3, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour4. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold...and have out his talk, as I do.' On Friday, April 3, I dined with him in London, in a company5 where were present several eminent men, whom I shall have...

...Wesley's conversation is good3, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour4. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold...and have out his talk, as I do.' On Friday, April 3, I dined with him in London, in a company5 where were present several eminent men, whom I shall have...

...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...and have out his talk, as I do." On Friday, April 3, I dined with him in London, in a company where were present several eminent men, whom I shall not name,...

...Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hoar. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold...and have out his talk, as I do." On Friday, April 3, I dined with him in London, in a company ' where were present several eminent men, whom I shall not...

...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, 1 dined with him in London, in a company where were present several eminent * Literary Magazine, 1756. p. 37. — BOSWELL. t The following...

...тик KEN COUNTHY.— p. 69. 1|R," «aid Dr. Johnson. addressing Buswell at breakfast in Bolt Court, "John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...loves to fold his legs and have out his talk as I do." * The force of this remark will be evident to anyone who has read the "Life of John Wesley," and especially...

...he held that in brevity there was more real enjoyment and far greater power. Johnson said of him, " Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at...to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." A quaint old English divine, by the name of Fuller, was renowned for his orderly management of affairs....

...piety". 2) Two years later (1778), speaking of Wesley's personal character, the Doctor remarked : "His conversation is good, but he is never at leisure....to fold his legs, and have out his talk, as I do." 3) As a comment on this utterance we may call attention to the fact that Wesley made a point of not...