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What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Related booksCommon terms and phrasesaddressing an individual adopted antiquated dialect appearance of sanctity appellatives badge besetting Christ complimentary phraseology consist court the applauses distinguished dress and language EFFINGHAM WILSON enquire epithet evil expediency favour feeling form of dress form of godliness form of speech FRIENDS HISTORICAL LIBRARY gay Quaker genuine Christian simplicity gious world gives not law gratify his personal holier than thou indulging intercourse interfere with genuine Israelites J. J. Gurney Jews jus et norma law to language mode of speech mote national costume observations opinions orthodox particular form passion of vanity peculiarity of dress personal vanity Pharisee phylacteries and enlarging plain and frugal plainness of speech practice principle adverted pronoun in addressing proud QUAKER-PECULIARITIES racter regard to plainness religion religious grounds respect ROYAL EXCHANGE self-denying Christians sentiment seventeenth century singularity sistent societies of less Society of Friends spirit substitute superstition superfluous superstition for piety temptations thine own eye uncharitableness uniform vidual Popular passagesPage 27 - Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye: and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5. Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. Page 25 - Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished. Page 12 - That there can be no moral virtue in any particular form of dress, is obvious'; and the reflecting reader will, probably, agree with me in the sentiment, that to insist upon any such form, as if the wearing of it were a religious obligation, is to interfere with genuine Christian simplicity, and to substitute superstition for piety. Page 30 - Be this as it may, there can be little doubt that the... Page 25 - ... of it ; it was calculated to abolish the enmity, and break down the partition wall between Jews and Gentiles, and of twain to make one new man, so... Page 17 - ANGUAGE is a species of fashion, estabI j lished by consent of the people of a particular country. Grammar gives not law to language, but from speech derives its authority and value. |