[Footnote 36: Turkey carpets are in use, though generally gaudy, on
account of their wearing better than others.]
But if these or similar principles are adopted by the society on this
subject, it must be obvious, that in walking through the rooms of the
Quakers, we shall look in vain for some articles that are classed among
the furniture of other people. We shall often be disappointed, for
instance, if we expect to find either paintings or prints in frame. I
seldom remember to have seen above three or four articles of this
description in all my intercourse with the Quakers. Some families had
one of these, others a second, and others a third, but none had them
all. And in many families neither the one nor the other was to be seen.
One of the prints, to which I allude, contained a representation of the
conclusion of the famous treaty between William Penn and the Indians of
America. This transaction every body knows, afforded, in all its
circumstances, a proof to the world, of the singular honour and
uprightness of those ancestors of the Quakers who were concerned in it.
The Indians too entertained an opinion no less favourable of their
character, for they handed down the memory of the event under such
[37]impressive circumstances, that their descendants have a particular
love for the character, and a particular reliance on the word, of a
Quaker at the present day.
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