 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
 | David Baines-Griffiths - 1919 - 168 páginas
...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...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." 1 Admitting... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Lockyer - 1922 - 368 páginas
...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...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." Now... | |
 | Harold Begbie - 1923 - 264 páginas
...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...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." Wesley's... | |
 | William Harris Arnold - 1923 - 426 páginas
...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...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." No wonder... | |
 | John Wesley Bready - 1927 - 474 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1928 - 244 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... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1928 - 500 páginas
...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...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,... | |
 | Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 páginas
...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 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." Conversation... | |
 | William Lee Richardson - 1928 - 116 páginas
...I O God, O God of grace ! Cover his face.' " Hurry, Hurry, Hurry "John Wesley," said Dr. Johnson," 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." If Dr.... | |
 | 1925 - 966 páginas
...talkers chafed because he could never induce Wesley to play the Wedding Guest to his Ancient Mariner. 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... | |
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