 | Robert Tate Gaskin - Methodism - 1863 - 114 pages
...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...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 be heard above the shouts... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...they 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...disagreeable to a man who 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... | |
 | John Richard Andrews (barrister.) - Evangelists - 1864 - 456 pages
...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...disagreeable to a man who 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... | |
 | William White - Christian philosophers - 1867 - 704 pages
...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 he is never...disagreeable to a " man who loves 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... | |
 | William M. White - 1867 - 710 pages
...— 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...disagreeable to a " man who loves 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... | |
 | William White - Christian philosophers - 1867 - 710 pages
...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...disagreeable to a " man who loves 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... | |
 | Joseph Beaumont Wakeley - Wesley Family - 1869 - 404 pages
...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...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 was heard to say, " I have... | |
 | 1869 - 398 pages
...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...disagreeable 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... | |
 | Charles Beard - 1871 - 602 pages
...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...disagreeable to a man who loves 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... | |
 | Christianity - 1871 - 608 pages
...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...disagreeable to a man who loves 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... | |
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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. 
