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12017-03-19T07:24:23-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72002(annotation)plain2017-03-19T07:41:52-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aSingularity to most people’s apprehension stands in the place of merit; a gimcrack in shell-philosophy will lay out twenty guineas for a shell that is singular, and without a fellow, though ugly and ill shapen; at the same time he will not give a farthing for that which has the most elegant shape and greatest diversity of colours, if the species is numerous. Thus it is not beauty, but singularity which makes it esteemed.
It is the same thing amongst men; a Quaker with his singularity of dress, self-sufficient business, laconic style, and air of riches, the last of which he never fails to insinuate to all his customers, catches the eye of tradesmen in the country; the apparent probity and power of selling cheap because wealthy, create him business; men in the country are desirous of talking with such a man, and thus deal with him from that singularity in him, and that whimsical disposition in themselves.
The Quakers are extremely punctual and honest in trifles, conscious that men wear out their characters before they make their fortune, who proceed otherwise in trades where riches are gotten by degrees.
But, in matters of consequence, the right of the thing is not the question; the power of obtaining it by artifice is the only object to be considered; and, if a fortune can be made at once, there is little hesitation about the manner how.
Is it not a little surprising, that even a set of men of such principles as the Quakers profess, could be suffered to take root in any nation? notwithstanding they have covered all the political maxims which they adopt, by the veil of religion. In the last rebellion which happened in England, they openly avowed that their principles would not allow them to oppose it. This was nothing to be remarked in a Quaker, and drew no sarcasm on the sect: yet a man of the established church would have been stigmatized for a Jacobite, that had declared any thing like this.
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12016-08-19T13:00:12-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aA Letter From Batista Angeloni (Reprinted) - 41A 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.2016-08-19T13:00:12-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
12016-08-19T12:59:12-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aA Letter from Batista Angeloni - 41A 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
