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. The English Review - Página 2021849Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| University magazine - 1850 - 794 páginas
...to knowledge, art, and elegance, wo must beat down such pretensions." Of Wesley wo have this notice, "John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold bis legs and have his talk as I do." Jeremy Taylor,... | |
| John Campbell Colquhoun - 1855 - 444 páginas
...of course did he know leisure. All his day was assigned to work. This was Dr. Johnson's complaint. " John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never...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 his talk out, as I do." Wesley... | |
| 1855 - 784 páginas
...of course, did he know leisure. All his day was assigned to work. This was Dr. Johnson's complaint. "John Wesley's conversation is good; but he is never...leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagrceable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out, at I do." Wesley... | |
| Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1858 - 238 páginas
...mark thy spreading tints steal o'er the dale ; And watch with patient eye Thy fair unfolding charms. There is love in this idleness. I know that formal...same time, he fell into a similar error of judgment. Variety is the bloom of life ; even animals feel it, and sheep soon loathe the sweetest grass in the... | |
| esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 páginas
...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 is never...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. — Johnson.... | |
| William White - 1867 - 704 páginas
...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...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."... | |
| William M. White - 1867 - 710 páginas
...— 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 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."... | |
| Joseph Beaumont Wakeley - 1869 - 406 páginas
...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...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 his talk out, as I do." John... | |
| 1871 - 608 páginas
...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...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."* But... | |
| Charles Beard - 1871 - 602 páginas
...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...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."* But... | |
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