 | Thomas Cooper - Labor and laboring classes - 1872 - 296 pages
...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...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 Johnson, allowed one... | |
 | 1872 - 398 pages
...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...disagreeable to a man who loves 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... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.' lie said, hink he did we disagrceable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do.' On Friday, April... | |
 | William Mathews - History - 1874 - 376 pages
...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...disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." Again, that great naval hero and sterling man, Lord Collingwood, gives the... | |
 | William Mathews - Success - 1874 - 386 pages
...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...disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." Again, that great naval hero and sterling man, Lord Collingwood, gives the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...any person appearing after death. All argument is against it ; but all belief is for it." He 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." On Friday, April 3, I dined with him in London, in a company where were present... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1876 - 716 pages
...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...disagreeable to a man who loves 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... | |
 | Missions - 1877 - 818 pages
...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....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 THE GRACE OF... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Authors, English - 1878 - 374 pages
...— 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...disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do.' For Methodistical students Johnson had no liking. Years later he defended the... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Authors, English - 1878 - 374 pages
...— 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...disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do.' For Methodistical students Johnson had no liking. Years later he defended the... | |
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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. 
