Category: History - Religious
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 III.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 fearf...
13. CHAPTER I.SECT. 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 III.3. CHAPTER IV.4. CHAPTER V.SECT. 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 VII.1. CHAPTER II.9. CHAPTER I.17. CHAPTER V._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 IV.16. CHAPTER IV.10. CHAPTER II.8. CHAPTER IX.5. CHAPTER VI.7. CHAPTER VIII.18. CHAPTER VI.11. CHAPTER III.14. CHAPTER II.