 | Eliza Clarke - Women - 1886 - 256 pages
...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.... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1887 - 492 pages
...argument is against it ; but all belief is for it2.' He said, 'John 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 his legs and have out his talk, as I do.'... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1887 - 490 pages
...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 his legs and have out his talk, as I do.' On Friday, April 3, I dined with him in London, in a company5 where were present... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1887 - 490 pages
...argument is against it ; but all belief is for it2.' He said, 'John 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 his legs and have out his talk, as I do.'... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1888 - 544 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1889 - 464 pages
...auy 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...at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hoar. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do."... | |
 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...any person appearing after death. All argument is against it ; but all belief is for it." He said, " well out his talk, as I do." On Friday, April 3, 1 dined with him in London, in a company where were present... | |
 | American fiction - 1928 - 556 pages
...one agreed with Dr. Johnson : "John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure . . . This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out, as I do." For Robinson, conversation was more than discussion ; it was perfect companionship. His Diary is the... | |
 | 1893 - 1054 pages
...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...disagreeable to a man who 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... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Conduct of life - 1894 - 248 pages
...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...disagreeable to a man who loves 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... | |
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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. 
