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 V.

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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 public assemblies--they conceive it productive, in this case, of a frivolous levity, and of an excitement of many of the evil passions_.

SECT. II--_These arguments of the Quakers, on dancing, examined in three supposed cases put to a moral philosopher_.

SECT. III.--_These arguments further elucidated by a display of the Ball-room_.