Excerpt from Friends at Their Own Fireside, or Pictures of the Private Life of the People Called Quakers, Vol. 1 of 2 As this rule prevails so generally throughout the whole community, so its opposite, whenever' found amongst the Society of Friends, forms a glaring instance of painful deviation, exceedingly offensive and troublesome to the rest of the mem bers, who feel the dignity of their body to be im plicated in such deviations, and well they may; for it would not be easy to find throughout the whole of society any individual more repulsive than a vulgar Friend. Truly there was no vulgarity, to be reminded of, in the little cottage about to be opened to the reader's view, - no disorder - no confusion - no waste, and yet no grudging but comfort, plenty, consideration, and hospitality for all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.