And in this custom they conceive the world to be
peculiarly inconsistent. For men go into their churches, and into their
meetings, and pull off their hats, or uncover their heads, for the same
reason as the Quaker-ministers when they pray (for no other reason can
be assigned) and, when they come out of their respective places of
worship, they uncover them again on every trivial occasion, to those
whom they meet, using to man the same outward mark of homage, as they
had just given to God.
[Footnote 55: 1 Cor. Chap. xi.]
CHAP. V.
_Manners and conversation--Quakers esteemed reserved--this an
appearance owing to their education--their hospitality in their own
houses--the freedom allowed and taken--their conversation
limited--politics generally excluded--subjects of conversation examined
in our towns--also in the metropolis--no such subjects among the
Quakers--their conversation more dignified--extraordinary circumstance
that takes place occasionally in the company of the Quakers._
The Quakers are generally supposed to be a stiff and reserved people,
and to be a people of severe and uncourteous manners. I confess there is
something in their appearance that will justify the supposition in the
eyes of strangers, and of such as do not know them: I mean of such, as
just see them occasionally out of doors, but do not mix with them in
their own houses.
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