Thanks for your patience during our recent outage at scalar.usc.edu. While Scalar content is loading normally now, saving is still slow, and Scalar's 'additional metadata' features have been disabled, which may interfere with features like timelines and maps that depend on metadata. This also means that saving a page or media item will remove its additional metadata. If this occurs, you can use the 'All versions' link at the bottom of the page to restore the earlier version. We are continuing to troubleshoot, and will provide further updates as needed. Note that this only affects Scalar projects at scalar.usc.edu, and not those hosted elsewhere.
12017-03-19T07:22:01-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72002(annotation)plain2017-03-19T07:40:13-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aA LETTER, FROM Batista Angeloni to Manzoni.
Dear Sir,
Nothing has less truth in it than what Voltaire and abbe le Bland have said relating to the Quakers in this kingdom: it is plain from what the first has written, that he either was never in their company, or did not attend to their customs. He describes one of these gentry, with whom he dined, as taking off his hat, and asking a benediction on his repast; in which he must be absolutely mistaken: it being the established maxim of this fact, never to perform that ceremony. A Quaker asks no blessing from heaven before he eats, and has not gratitude enough to return thanks after he is fill’d. To say the truth, those of the church of England do both in a becoming manner.
If it was the spirit of religious enthusiasm that actuated the first Quakers; it is a spirit of another kind, which reigns amongst them at present. If simplicity of dress, and simplicity of speech, arose from the humble consideration of human nature, in the beginning; it is love of singularity, pride, and personal advantage, which has taken possession of their hearts, and which continues their dress and manners in this age.
No creature on this globe has half the arrogance of a Quaker; he accosts the king with Friend George, the minister with Neighbour William, and this without the least reluctance, distrust of himself, or mark of confusion. What can argue greater insolence than this of meeting those persons, upon equal terms, and treating them with the utmost
Contents of this annotation:
12016-08-19T13:01:10-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aA Letter From Batista Angeloni (Reprinted) - 21A letter, from Batista Angeloni, who resided many years in London, to his friend Manzoni. : Wherein the Quakers are politically and religiously considered. To which is added, The Cloven-Foot discovered.2016-08-19T13:01:10-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
12016-08-19T12:59:12-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aA Letter from Batista Angeloni - 21A letter, from Batista Angeloni, who resided many years in London, to his friend Manzoni. Wherein the Quakers are politically and religiously considered. To which is added, The Cloven-Foot discovered. [One line of Latin text]2016-08-19T12:59:12-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
