| 1903 - 1038 psl.
...infinite variety of characters." One objection Dr. Johnson had to Wesley's conversation was that he was 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" words that indicate clearly the difference between the two men. Johnson,... | |
| James Boswell - 1916 - 370 psl.
...of 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." He was very silent this evening; and read in a variety of books ; suddenly... | |
| David Baines-Griffiths - 1919 - 168 psl.
...of the men than a remark of Johnson's, made when he is sixty -nine and Wesley five years older ? " 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." 1 Admitting that, to the world, Wesley appears pre-eminently the man of action,... | |
| Andrew Gillies - 1919 - 226 psl.
...Samuel Johnson complained because Wesley was so busy that he made it uncomfortable for "one who likes to fold his legs and have his talk out, as I do," and also said frankly to Boswell, that "whatever might be thought of some Methodist preachers, he could... | |
| Thomas Frederick Lockyer - 1922 - 368 psl.
...What passed at that interview ? It was a rare opportunity. A few years before, Johnson had remarked, " 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." Now at last the two old men, who perhaps had influenced the minds and hearts... | |
| William Harris Arnold - 1923 - 426 psl.
...of comment repeated by Boswell gives us a personal glimpse of Wesley in the very words of Johnson: "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." No wonder that a man who usually began the 131 day by preaching at five o'clock... | |
| Harold Begbie - 1923 - 264 psl.
...happiness which I ever saw." Dr. Johnson found no fault with him, save that he had no time for talk. "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's legs, as we have seen, were happier astride a horse on his way to... | |
| John Wesley Bready - 1927 - 474 psl.
...could talk well on any subject." But one thing the renowned autocrat could not endure. Wesley was " never at leisure." " He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. That is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk, as I do." 3 But... | |
| Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1928 - 500 psl.
...the terrible hatred of inherited melancholia. He loved to talk, and he hated to be alone. 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." But, of course, Wesley a bright and glorious figure of the last century,... | |
| Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 psl.
...across, and Johnson did not like him any the better for it. " John Wesley's conversation," he said, " is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always...disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk as I do." Conversation came to be by far the largest pleasure of his life, as indeed it... | |
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