...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...loves to fold his legs, and have his talk out, as I da" And I have read somewhere, but cannot remember where, that Wesley dined with Johnson, allowed one...

...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 at leisure. He is alicayt obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs...

...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...

...expected from one of whom Dr. Johnson has left this opinion : " 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 loves to fold his legs and have out his talk,...

...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...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 are poor plants. They...

...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...disagreeable to a man who loves 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...

...of any person appearing after death. AH argument is against it; but all belief is for it." He said, "John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. ' Literary Magazine, 1756, p. 37. Johnson's Works, Oxford Ed., vol. vi., p. 42.—Editor. 2 The following...

...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 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...

...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...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 his hands his largest...

...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...