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  • In these sects there is found quietism, a kind of quakerism, pure morality, high teaching, sternest (almost bigoted) monotheism, and the doctrine of positive altruism, strange to the Hindu idolator as to the Brahman.

    The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894

  • All of the organized religious movements, catholicism, judiasm, islam, taoism, quakerism and on and on are all male dominant.

    Bishops slam 'unacceptable' health care bill 2009

  • Plainness, simplicity, and quakerism, either in dress or manners, will by no means do; they must both be laced and embroidered; speaking, or writing sense, without elegance and turn, will be very little persuasive; and the best figure in the world, without air and address, will be very ineffectual.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • The other lady passenger, with the gentleman-companion, was quite a girl, pretty and fair: her simple print dress, untrimmed straw-bonnet and large shawl, gracefully worn, formed a costume plain to quakerism: yet, for her, becoming enough.

    Villette 2003

  • Much of this, I dare say, is owing to my quakerism; and to that, unquestionably, I was indebted for the article in the _Edinburgh Review_, and the more recent passing notice in the _Quarterly_.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827 Various

  • To confess to you the honest truth, I felt a little more ticklish than usual, this evening, on the subject of quakerism.

    A New England tale, and Miscellanies 1852

  • The other lady passenger, with the gentleman-companion, was quite a girl, pretty and fair: her simple print dress, untrimmed straw-bonnet and large shawl, gracefully worn, formed a costume plain to quakerism: yet, for her, becoming enough.

    Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835

  • Christian world; it is I, who, by slighting and slubbering over her holy service and sacraments, have scandalized and cast a stumblingblock before all the neighbourhood, to the great danger of their souls; I, who have been the occasion of this man's faction, that man's quakerism, and another's popery; and thereby, to the utmost of my power, contributed to those dismal convulsions which have so terribly shook and weakened both church and state.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823

  • The ethical delineations of 'that noble and liberal casuist' (as Shakespeare has been well called) do not exhibit the drab-coloured quakerism of morality.

    Characters of Shakespeare's Plays William Hazlitt 1804

  • Because it was extended, not only to prelacy, but to popery, quakerism, and all idolatry, blasphemy, and heresy, which was highly provoking to the Lord Jesus, and prejudicial to the peace and purity of his church; contrary to the scriptures of the old and new Testament; contrary to the confession of faith and catechisms, chap. xx.

    Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies John Howie 1764

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