A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends

CHAPTER III.

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SECT. I.--_Language--Quakers have altered the common language--substitution of Thou for You--reasons for this change--opinions of many learned men concerning it._

SECT. II.--_Various other alterations made--as in titled of address--and of honour--reasons for these changes._

SECT. III.--_Another alteration--as in the names of the days and the months--reasons for this change--various new phrases also introduced._

SECT. IV.--_Objections by the world against the alteration of Thou for You._

SECT. V.--_Against that of titles of address and honour._

SECT. VI.--_Against that of the names of the days and months._

SECT. VIII.--_Advantages and disadvantages of these alterations by the Quaker language._