This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1788 edition. Excerpt: ...only glory is that of having, perhaps, contributed to the foundation of the fect of Quakers. This humane and peaceable fect arofe in Eng-Orig5n ind land, amidft the confufions of that bloody war. c""TMfi-rf......, J ' theQuakers. which terminated in a monarch s being dragged to the fcaffold by his own fubjects ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1788 edition. Excerpt: ...only glory is that of having, perhaps, contributed to the foundation of the fect of Quakers. This humane and peaceable fect arofe in Eng-Orig5n ind land, amidft the confufions of that bloody war. c""TMfi-rf......, J ' theQuakers. which terminated in a monarch s being dragged to the fcaffold by his own fubjects. The founder of it, George Fox, was of the lower clafs of the people; a man who had been formerly a mechanic, but whom a fingular and contemplative turn of mind had induced to quit his employment. In order to wean himfelf entirely from all earthly affections, he broke off all connections with his own family; and for fear of being tempted to renew them, he determined to have no fixed abode. He often wandered alone in the woods, without any other amufement but his bible. In time he even learned to go without that, when he thought he had acquired from it a degree of infpiration fimilar to that of the apoftles and the prophets. He then began to think of making profelytes, in which he found no difficulty in a country where the minds of all men were filled and difturbed with enthufiaftic notions. He was, therefore, foon followed by a multitude of difciples, the novelty B xvni K and fingula-ry of whofe opinions, upon incom-prehenfible fubjects, could not fail of attracting and fafcinating all thofe who were fond of the marvellous. The firft thing by which they caught the eye, was the fimplicity of their drefs, in which there was no gold or filver lace, no embroidery, laces, or ruffles, and from which they affected to banifh every thing that was fuperfluous or unneceflary. They would not fuffer either a button in the hat or a plait in the coat, becaufe it waspoffible to do without them. Such an extraordinary contempt foreftablifhed modes...
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