item: #1 of 25
          id: 14730
      author: Goss, Charles Frederic
       title: The Redemption of David Corson
        date: None
       words: 103554
      flesch: 82
     summary: In such places young men are never anything but milk sops, and old men anything but b-b-bald-headed infants! He had been observing, without reflecting upon, many facts in the lives of other men, experiences in his own heart, and apparent inconsistencies in the Bible.
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        item: #2 of 25
          id: 15260
      author: Clarkson, Thomas
       title: 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
        date: None
       words: 78576
      flesch: 64
     summary: It is not that the Quakers have not the same feelings as other men, or that they are not equally interested about humanity, or that they are incapable of opinions on the changeable political events, that are passing over the face of the globe, that this subject is so little agitated among them. Should, however, the overseers, and other persons before mentioned, find after a proper length of time that all their united efforts have been ineffectual, and that they have no hope of success with respect to his amendment, they lay the case, if it should be of a serious nature, before a [16]court, which has the name of the monthly meeting.
    keywords: account; amusements; business; case; character; christian; custom; discipline; dress; education; footnote; fox; george; good; language; life; man; manner; meeting; members; men; mind; morality; music; nature; occasion; people; persons; place; present; principles; quakers; religion; respect; sect; society; spirit; subject; system; time; use; virtue; women; world
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        item: #3 of 25
          id: 15261
      author: Clarkson, Thomas
       title: A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends
        date: None
       words: 81566
      flesch: 65
     summary: The Quakers, like other men, have their differences. Neither do the Quakers believe that ministers of the church ought, under the new dispensation, to be a separate people, as the Levites were, or to be distinguished on account of their office from other men.
    keywords: baptism; body; bread; christ; christian; church; day; divine; footnote; god; gospel; holy; holy spirit; inward; jesus; jesus christ; jews; john; life; light; man; manner; men; nature; new; outward; passover; paul; persons; power; quakers; religion; society; spirit; spiritual; subject; supper; things; time; water; words; world
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        item: #4 of 25
          id: 15304
      author: Clarkson, Thomas
       title: A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends
        date: None
       words: 82642
      flesch: 64
     summary: But if neither Jesus Christ, who was the author of that religion, which many civil governments have established, nor the apostles, who afterwards propagated it, forced their doctrines upon other men, or hindered them by force from worshipping in their own way, even though the former could have called legions of angels to his support, it certainly does not become weak, ignorant, and fallible men, because they are placed in the situation of governors, to set up their own creeds as supreme, and to throw penalties and restrictions in the way of the religious exercise of others. But I am aware also, it will be said that, though different cabinets, all having the same Christian disposition, would settle their disputes in a friendly manner, how would a cabinet, consisting of spiritually minded men, settle with a cabinet of other men, who had not brought their passions under due regulation, and who, besides, had no notion of the unlawfulness of war.
    keywords: account; case; causes; character; children; christianity; christians; circumstances; customs; education; evil; footnote; general; god; good; gospel; knowledge; life; man; manner; men; mind; nature; people; persons; principles; quakers; religion; respect; society; spirit; subject; things; time; tithes; trait; truth; war; wars; words; world
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        item: #5 of 25
          id: 15730
      author: Crisp, Stephen
       title: A Short History of a Long Travel from Babylon to Bethel
        date: None
       words: 7933
      flesch: 70
     summary: I then discerned a man of that country a pretty way off, and called to him, friend, ho! friend, what is the name of yonder great house? I quickly found so many by-lanes, and ways, which lay almost as straight forward as that I went in, that if it had not been for the light, which went a little before me, I might certainly many times have gone wrong; but by carefully keeping to my good guide, I at last got up the mountain, and saw the house again.
    keywords: god; guide; house; illustration; light; time; way
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        item: #6 of 25
          id: 16088
      author: Pringle, Cyrus G. (Cyrus Guernsey)
       title: The Record of a Quaker Conscience, Cyrus Pringle's Diary With an Introduction by Rufus M. Jones
        date: None
       words: 14336
      flesch: 74
     summary: As the slave many times before us, leaving his yoke behind him, turned from the plantations of Virginia and set his face toward the far North, so we from out a grasp as close and as abundant in suffering and severity, and from without the line of bayonets that had so many weeks surrounded us, turned our backs upon the camp of the 4th Vermont and took our way over the turnpike that ran through the tented fields of Culpeper. How can we reason with such men?
    keywords: camp; company; country; day; friends; guard; hospital; life; man; men; morning; new; officers; president; service; time; trial; war; way; york
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        item: #7 of 25
          id: 17826
      author: Old Elizabeth
       title: Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman
        date: None
       words: 4341
      flesch: 76
     summary: Even the elders of our meeting joined with the wicked people, and said such meetings must be stopped, and that woman quieted. I felt very unworthy and small, notwithstanding the Lord had shown himself with great power, insomuch that conjecturers and critics were constrained to join in praise to his great name; for truly, we had times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.
    keywords: light; lord; meeting; spirit; time
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        item: #8 of 25
          id: 19377
      author: Penn, William
       title: A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers
        date: None
       words: 26050
      flesch: 59
     summary: * * * To conclude; behold the testimony and doctrine of the people called Quakers; behold their practice and discipline; and behold the blessed man and men, at least many of them, that were sent of God in this excellent work and service; all which is more particularly expressed in the annals of that man of God, which I do heartily recommend to my reader's most serious perusal; and beseech Almighty God, that his blessing may go along with both, to the convincement of many, as yet strangers to this holy dispensation, and also to the edification of God's church in general: who for his manifold and repeated mercies and blessings to his people, in this day of his great love, is worthy ever to have the glory, honour, thanksgiving, and renown; and be it rendered and ascribed, with fear and reverence, through him in whom he is well pleased, his beloved Son and Lamb, our light and life, that sits with him upon the throne, world without end. Nor could they humour the custom of Good Night, Good Morrow, God Speed; for they knew the night was good, and the day was good, without wishing of either; and that in the other expression, the holy name of God was too lightly and unthankfully used, and therefore taken in vain.
    keywords: christ; church; day; god; good; holy; life; light; lord; love; man; men; ministry; people; power; spirit; things; thou; time; truth; way; world
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        item: #9 of 25
          id: 19482
      author: Anonymous
       title: The Ancient Banner Or, Brief Sketches of Persons and Scenes in the Early History of Friends
        date: None
       words: 4668
      flesch: 75
     summary: And beside these, there was a multitude Of faithful men, and noble women too, Who past from scenes of conflict, to the joys Of the Redeemer's kingdom, within jails, And some in dungeons. He saw that colleges, could not confer, A saving knowledge of the way of Truth, Nor qualify a minister to preach The everlasting Gospel; but that Christ, Is the true Teacher, and that he alone Has power to call, anoint, and qualify, And send a Gospel minister to preach Glad tidings of salvation.
    keywords: christ; church; gospel; holy; light; lord; man; spirit; truth
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        item: #10 of 25
          id: 19605
      author: Hodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)
       title: A Book of Quaker Saints
        date: None
       words: 142584
      flesch: 82
     summary: Some bad men there were on both sides certainly; but the real misery was that many good men on each side were trying to kill and maim one another, in order that the cause they believed to be 'the Right' might triumph. Wonderful eyes he had, not like to other men's; with a depth and yet a light in them, as when the June sun shines back reflected from the blackness of a mountain tarn.
    keywords: children; christ; church; city; country; day; days; dear; door; england; eyes; face; father; fell; fox; friends; george; george fox; god; good; hand; hath; head; heart; home; house; james; john; judge; justice; king; know; life; little; lois; look; looking; lord; love; man; mary; master; meeting; men; miles; mind; moment; mother; nayler; new; old; people; place; power; prison; quaker; richard; right; round; set; soul; spirit; story; stranger; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; town; truth; turn; voice; way; white; wife; woman; words; work; world; years; young
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        item: #11 of 25
          id: 20534
      author: Penn, William
       title: A Sermon Preached at the Quaker's Meeting House, in Gracechurch-Street, London, Eighth Month 12th, 1694.
        date: None
       words: 5075
      flesch: 68
     summary: Now, none can bring us back to God, and into favour and communion with him, but our Lord Jesus Christ: But it is said, He did not many mighty works among some to whom he preached the everlasting Gospel, because of their unbelief: Many will not believe in the inward and spiritual appearance of Jesus Christ the Son of God, who is the light of the world; they will neither believe in the light, nor walk in the light, which will enable them to conquer the evil one, who is the prince of darkness: It is only through Christ Jesus, the great captain of our salvation, that we are victorious.
    keywords: christ; god; hath; lord; sin; world
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        item: #12 of 25
          id: 26279
      author: Society of Friends
       title: On Singing and Music
        date: None
       words: 3847
      flesch: 57
     summary: We have been brought under a feeling of religious concern that the ancient testimony of the Society of Friends to the true nature of spiritual worship may be fully maintained by all who claim that name; and that they may be watchful against the introduction of practices which will undermine the support of this testimony, and thus lead those who profess to be the children of the Light, back into a dependence upon forms, out of which their forefathers in the Truth were brought by that remarkable outpouring of grace and spiritual power which marked the rise of Friends as a distinct people. We desire, therefore, renewedly to call the attention of Friends to this subject; and to caution them against indulging themselves or their families in any practice, however pleasing to the natural taste, which will weaken their hands in supporting in its purity our ancient testimony to the nature of spiritual worship; or which will have the effect of retarding their own progress in the self-denying path that leads to the kingdom of heaven.
    keywords: god; mind; music; singing; spirit; worship
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        item: #13 of 25
          id: 26796
      author: Cleaveland, Elizabeth H. Jocelyn (Elizabeth Hannah Jocelyn)
       title: No Sect in Heaven
        date: None
       words: 904
      flesch: 91
     summary: And after him, with his MSS., Came Wesley, the pattern of godliness, But he cried, Dear me, what shall I do? And if ever one of then chanced to say What troubles she met with on the way, How she longed to pass to the other side, Nor feared to cross over the swelling tide, A voice arose from the brethren then: Let no one speak but the 'holy men;' For have ye not heard the words of Paul, 'Oh, let the women keep silence all?' I watched them long in my curious dream, Till they stood by the borders of the stream; Then, just as I thought, the two ways met, But all the brethren were talking yet, And would talk on, till the heaving tide Carried them over, side by side; Side by side, for the way was one,
    keywords: way
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        item: #14 of 25
          id: 29899
      author: Mace, Vera
       title: Marriage Enrichment Retreats: Story of a Quaker Project
        date: None
       words: 8747
      flesch: 64
     summary: This tragedy of undeveloped potential could be avoided in many instances if married couples had a clearer concept of the task of marriage and did not have to struggle in almost total isolation from other couples going through the same experiences. This taboo, hitherto unrecognized as such, prevents married couples from sharing their intramarital experiences with other couples.
    keywords: couples; enrichment; experiences; friends; group; interaction; leaders; marriage; new; retreats; sharing; time
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        item: #15 of 25
          id: 33073
      author: Unknown
       title: The Arm Chair
        date: None
       words: 3889
      flesch: 78
     summary: With gospel power for Truth and right she spoke, 'Till slumbering consciences to feeling woke, Oppressors' hearts with justice learned to beat, While bondmen's shackles fell beneath their feet. Great the church's loss, She mourned a faithful champion of the cross, Gathered at mid-day--soon the race was won,-- Long e'er the evening shades his labour done!
    keywords: church; day; gospel; heart; life; lord; love; master; thy
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        item: #16 of 25
          id: 48973
      author: Rhodes, Benjamin
       title: Three Apostles of Quakerism: Popular Sketches of Fox, Penn and Barclay
        date: None
       words: 50249
      flesch: 69
     summary: Then was a certificate, relating both the proceedings and the marriage, openly read and signed by the relations, and by most of the ancient Friends of that city, besides many other Friends from divers parts of the nation. I may add, that whilst all three of these biographical sketches are valuable contributions to our ecclesiastical literature, the last, which treats of Robert Barclay, is the fullest, most original, and best of all.
    keywords: aberdeen; barclay; christ; christian; church; day; death; father; fox; friends; george; george fox; god; good; great; heart; holy; james; john; king; letter; liberty; life; light; london; lord; love; man; meeting; men; mind; penn; power; quakerism; quakers; robert; robert barclay; society; son; soul; spirit; time; truth; way; william; william penn; work; years
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        item: #17 of 25
          id: 57726
      author: Richardson, Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller)
       title: The Quakers, Past and Present
        date: None
       words: 16873
      flesch: 56
     summary: We may look with wonder and admiration at the great figures amongst Quaker women, upon those who built their lives into the first spreadings of the message; upon those who went, under the urgency of their faith, alone into strange lands, where means of communication were the scantiest; upon the persecuted and martyred women, the women of initiative and organizing genius; upon Anne Knight of Chelmsford pioneering female suffrage in England, founding the first political association for women; upon Elizabeth Fry, after a full career as house-keeper, mother, and social worker, turning, late in life, to the prisons of England, and transforming them, so to say, with her own hands. It is interesting to note that one of the most striking features of the technique of Quaker meetings, whether for business or worship, is the working out of the distinctive characteristics of the sexes.
    keywords: america; body; church; england; faith; footnote; fox; friends; god; group; home; life; light; man; meeting; quaker; quakerism; sense; society; spirit; time; way; women; work; world; years
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        item: #18 of 25
          id: 57926
      author: Richardson, Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller)
       title: Gleanings from the Works of George Fox
        date: None
       words: 19697
      flesch: 82
     summary: And to all ye that say, God give us grace and we shall refrain from our sin, there ye have got a tempting customary word, for the free grace of God hath appeared to all men and this is the grace of God hath appeared to all men and this is the grace of God which shows the ungodliness and worldly lusts. For I saw in that light and spirit which was before the Scriptures were given forth and which led the holy men of God to give them forth, that all must come to that Spirit, if they would know God or Christ or the Scripture aright which they that gave him forth were led and taught by. (_Journal_, 8th ed., Vol. I., p. 35.)
    keywords: christ; god; hath; life; light; lord; man; people; power; spirit; things; truth; vii; works
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        item: #19 of 25
          id: 58078
      author: Waln, Robert
       title: Observations on the Sermons of Elias Hicks In Several Letters to Him; With Some Introductory Remarks, Addressed to the Junior Members of the Society of Friends.
        date: None
       words: 26172
      flesch: 44
     summary: The situation of a christian teacher is of awful responsibility, and in the Society of Friends peculiarly beset with dangers, not only because of the high claim on which their ministry is founded, and which seems to require a degree of unremitting watchfulness with which it is difficult for man to comply; but also, because it requires a constant attention to keeping the mind in that state of lowliness and humility, which can alone preserve them from mistaking the wanderings of the imagination for a call of duty; and from those feelings which lead them to seek after the applause of men. My endeavour has been to show the inconsistencies into which men are led, by unfounded pretensions to a state of perfectability,[2] and an acquaintance with the inscrutable workings of Providence, (which all experience proves to be unattainable by man;) to show that such lofty aspirations are not in accordance with the genuine principles of the religion of Jesus Christ; and that it is by a submissive acquiescence in the measure of knowledge communicated, and an anxious endeavour to fulfil the obligations it imposes, rather than by curious researches into hidden things, that we best perform our duties here; and as no intelligent mind among you can believe that the suggestions of infinite wisdom are ever contradictory, it was part of my plan to show the inconsistencies in the doctrines of the great leader of the illuminati of your society.
    keywords: belief; christian; divine; footnote; god; letter; man; men; mind; page; reason; religion; scriptures; sermons; society; spirit; state; subject; things; truth; worship
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        item: #20 of 25
          id: 6261
      author: Parker, Gilbert
       title: The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 1
        date: None
       words: 12949
      flesch: 84
     summary: The truth is that David Claridge had his origin in a fairly close understanding of, and interest in, Quaker life. David Claridge was, however, a creature of the imagination.
    keywords: book; claridge; david; day; elder; eyes; face; faith; good; house; life; luke; man; quaker; thee; things; uncle; voice; words
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        item: #21 of 25
          id: 6262
      author: Parker, Gilbert
       title: The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 2
        date: None
       words: 44243
      flesch: 89
     summary: Perhaps because David wore his hat always and the long coat with high collar like a Turk, or because Prince Kaid was an acute judge of human nature, and also because honesty was a thing he greatly desired--in others--and never found near his own person; however it was, he had set David high in his esteem at once. Now, with amusement in his eyes, Prince Kaid watched David coming up the great hall.
    keywords: achmet; david; day; death; door; effendina; egypt; eyes; face; god; hand; harrik; head; heart; kaid; left; life; man; mind; moment; nahoum; night; palace; pasha; prince; room; save; saw; thee; thou; thy; time; truth; voice; way
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        item: #22 of 25
          id: 6263
      author: Parker, Gilbert
       title: The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 2
        date: None
       words: 51112
      flesch: 88
     summary: Presently he said tentatively: David Claridge has a title to the esteem of all civilised people. The Earl of Eglington is your elder brother, called David Claridge.
    keywords: claridge; david; day; eglington; egypt; eyes; face; faith; father; good; hand; heart; help; house; hylda; know; life; long; look; lord; love; man; mind; moment; right; soolsby; thee; things; thought; time; voice; way; woman; words; work; years
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        item: #23 of 25
          id: 6264
      author: Parker, Gilbert
       title: The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 4
        date: None
       words: 24375
      flesch: 87
     summary: One of these showed a singular interest in the movements of Nahoum Pasha as he entered the chamber, and an even greater interest in David when he was announced; but as David, in his journey up the chamber, must pass near him, he drew behind a little group of officials, who whispered to each other excitedly as David came on. Thomas Tilman Lacey, the despised waster of his patrimony and of other people's treasure, is now, O son of the fig-flower, richer than Kaid Pasha and all his eunuchs.
    keywords: claridge; david; day; desert; ebn; effendina; egypt; eyes; ezra; face; god; hand; head; kaid; lacey; life; man; mind; moment; money; nahoum; pasha; saadat; thee; thou
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        item: #24 of 25
          id: 6265
      author: Parker, Gilbert
       title: The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 5
        date: None
       words: 13797
      flesch: 86
     summary: They were all laughing heartily, when the butler entered the room and said, Lady Eglington is here, and wishes to see your Grace. I've written this paragraph to go into the papers to-morrow morning: 'The Duchess of Snowdon, accompanied by Lady Eglington, left London last night for the Mediterranean via Calais, to be gone for two months or more.'
    keywords: claridge; duchess; eglington; eyes; face; heart; house; hylda; life; lord; man; pasha; thing; windlehurst; world
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        item: #25 of 25
          id: 6266
      author: Parker, Gilbert
       title: The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 6
        date: None
       words: 19404
      flesch: 88
     summary: Passing the house which David had occupied on that night when he and she and Nahoum and Mizraim had met, the mist of feeling almost blinded her; for there at the gate sat the bowab who had admitted her then, and with apathetic eyes had watched her go, in the hour when it seemed that she and David Claridge had bidden farewell for ever, two driftwood spars that touched and parted in the everlasting sea. He did not associate her with the girl for whom David Claridge had killed Foorgat Pey, and he sent his own carriage to bring her to the Palace.
    keywords: bey; claridge; david; day; desert; eglington; eyes; face; good; hylda; lacey; life; man; men; nahoum; pasha; saadat; soolsby; thee; world
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