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SECT. II.--_Quakers cannot learn instrumental on the usual motives of the world--nor consider it as a source of moral improvement, or of solid comfort to the mind--but are fearful that, if indulged in, it would interfere with the Christian duty of religious retirement_.
_Customs at and after meals--Quakers never drink healths or toasts--various reasons for their disuse of these customs--and seldom allow women to retire after dinner and leave th...
2. Chapter 2SECT. II.--_Quakers cannot learn instrumental on the usual motives of the world--nor consider it as a source of moral improvement, or of solid comfort to the mind--but are fearf...
13. Chapter 13SECT. II.--_Quakers carried with them their plain dresses into their new society--extravagance of the world continuing, they defined the objects of dress as a Christian people--...
15. Chapter 153. Chapter 34. Chapter 4SECT. I.--_Dancing forbidden--light in which this subject has been viewed both by the ancients and the moderns--Quakers principally object to it, where it is connected with publ...
6. Chapter 61. Chapter 19. Chapter 917. Chapter 17_Manners and conversation--hospitality and freedom in Quakers' houses--their conversation more limited than that of others--subjects of conversation examined in our towns--and i...
12. Chapter 1216. Chapter 1610. Chapter 108. Chapter 85. Chapter 57. Chapter 718. Chapter 1811. Chapter 1114. Chapter 14