But whereas the Greek atomists had to guess and imagine, John Dalton, a Quaker and a chemist, used modern scientific reasoning. |
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The Quaker movement started in England in the mid-17th century, a time of great religious and political ferment. |
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Dhafir spoke everywhere from mosques to community centers to Quaker meeting houses about the devastation the sanctions caused. |
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At 12 years of age we find him running a school in the barn of the Quaker meeting house. |
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This violated Quaker ideas about the vanity and worldliness of such titles, for they believed that Christ respected no man's person. |
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Duty and honor compel him to return to face his foe despite the vehement protestations of Amy, a Quaker. |
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Mary's marking sampler, with six alphabets worked in black in the Quaker block style, names Alexandria as its place of origin. |
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Taking a Quaker stewardship view of nature, Douglas loved creatures of the wild, from the low-slung sand crab to the stilted seabird. |
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This is the kind of complex question every Quaker theosopher such as myself dreads, because there are no easy answers. |
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The grain silos on the original site of the Quaker Oats Company now provide circular guest rooms at the Crowne Plaza Quaker Square in Akron. |
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Another group named Keithians held many Baptist ideas including baptism by immersion but merged those ideas with some Quaker beliefs. |
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Quaker women were quick to admire the status of Iroquois women and still spread the seeds of equality. |
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He told them, of course, that a colony founded on Quaker principles should not arm itself. |
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Josiah Harlan was a pacifist, abstemious Pennsylvania Quaker stricken with a profound case of wanderlust. |
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Meanwhile, Eliza is taken to a Quaker settlement on the border of the slave states where she meets up with George, her husband. |
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As a Quaker, Kevin Clements is dedicated to pacifism and humanitarian service. |
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Hannah, a North American, was raised in the Quaker community of Monterverde. |
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But the Quaker meeting is the only form of Western religion I know that positions silence at the center of public worship. |
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The Quaker was a fresh-faced old man who had never been ill, because he had never known passions or intemperance. |
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Health Valley has a line of four fabulous instant hot cereal cups that have roughly half as much sugar as Quaker instant cereals. |
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As a Quaker, the American was jailed during the Vietnam War for flying draft dodgers to Canada and Mexico. |
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The company, which has its origins in the Quaker movement, devised the fund after requests from customers. |
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He had a good sense of humour and practised the Quaker principles of simplicity and humility. |
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In line with his Quaker beliefs he declared himself a conscientious objector so he could not be drafted into the military. |
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A Quaker has appeared in court after refusing to pay part of his taxes, in case the money was used for military purposes. |
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The Quaker, an ardent Federalist, aided Antifederalist opposition to the Constitution by repeatedly raising objections to the slave trade clause. |
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Roberts was a lanky, full-bearded man with jet-black hair, a Quaker, and, like so many in his family, a man of exceptional mathematical skills. |
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Quaker Oats were the perfect body food, the perfect brain food, strengthening you in mind and muscle. |
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Although Quaker meetings are held in silence, individuals are allowed to speak, if genuinely moved by the spirit to do so. |
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A large Quaker meeting house still stands in the historic district of the city. |
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I'm not sure if Quaker parrots live as long as conures, but I was also warned that she would need a mate by age 10 or so, or she'd become extremely sullen and nasty. |
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A single packet of Quaker Maple and brown sugar instant oatmeal, though, contains a full tablespoon of sugar. |
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The Quaker Chewy Dipps Chocolate Chip granola bar is more than 40 percent sugar by weight. |
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Quaker meetings and Shabbat services are held regularly here on the farm. |
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The English engineer William Cubitt is usually accredited with the invention of the Discipline Mill while he was chief engineer at Ransomes, a Quaker ironworks in Ipswich. |
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The baroness is a wealthy American Quaker brought to 19 th-century Paris by her husband's business dealings, trying to make the best of it as a cultural dilettante. |
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Erskine, the Quaker, offered to serve as a stretcher-bearer, but the British Embassy refused to repatriate people not prepared to join the armed forces. |
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In particular, Quaker tradition, with its unifying sense of humanity's spiritual oneness, had laid the cornerstone of much early pacifist campaigning. |
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Of course, research in itself is no panacea, but more successful players like General Mills, Quaker Oats, Nabisco and, of course, Kraft, have turned it to good account. |
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One was a Quaker school, whose name he can no longer recall, in upstate New York. |
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He believed there would be a big impact on parking, already under pressure during the school run and from meetings in the local Quaker Meeting House. |
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The gently centered Quaker part of me is trying hard to calm the Help! |
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In 1676 three cottages in Southgate were recorded as being given up for the use as a cemetery by the Acklams, a Quaker family. |
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Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 as a proprietary colony of Quaker William Penn. |
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The Quaker Yearly Meetings supporting the religious beliefs of Joseph John Gurney were known as Gurneyite yearly meetings. |
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These Quaker yearly meetings make up the largest proportion of Quakers in the world today. |
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In the late 19th century and early 20th century a religious movement known as the Quaker Renaissance movement began within London Yearly Meeting. |
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Later he was permitted to stay away from prison for several days at a time and took to visiting Quaker congregations in Kent. |
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Note, the honest Quaker was nonplussed, and greatly surprised at that question. |
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In 1712 Darby offered to instruct William Rawlinson, a fellow Quaker and ironmaster, in the techniques of smelting with coke. |
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No more Quaker Instant Strawberries and Cream Oatmeal, which has more sugar and creaming agent than fruit. |
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The durable motor oils Quaker State provides Hendrick Motorsports have been a part of an impressive resume of success on NASCAR's national stage. |
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When the treasurer Jonathan Backhouse retired in 1833 to become a Quaker minister he was replaced by Joseph Pease. |
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Thus, the name Quaker began as a way of ridiculing George Fox's admonition, but became widely accepted and is used by some Quakers. |
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The persecution of Quakers in North America began in 1656 when English Quaker missionaries Mary Fisher and Ann Austin began preaching in Boston. |
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In 1660, English Quaker Mary Dyer was hanged on Boston Common for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony. |
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This Quaker Renaissance movement was particularly influenced by John Wilhelm Rowntree, Edward Grubb, and Rufus Jones. |
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These Quaker men downplayed the evangelical Quaker belief in the atonement of Christ on the Cross at Calvary. |
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In the 1650s, individual Quaker women prophesized and preached publicly, developing charismatic personas and spreading the sect. |
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From the beginning, Quaker women, most notably Margaret Fell, played an important role in defining Quakerism. |
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Quaker women even published at least 220 texts during the seventeenth century. |
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However, within the Quaker movement, some resented the power of women within the community. |
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In England, Quaker schools sprang up, with Friends School Saffron Walden being the most prominent. |
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In Australia, the Friends' School, Hobart was founded in 1887 and has grown to become the largest Quaker school in the world. |
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This practice differs from most other Quaker branches of the Religious Society of Friends. |
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Interest in Quaker Universalism is low among Friends from other Yearly meetings. |
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The religious event is sometimes called a Quaker meeting for worship or sometimes called a Friends church service. |
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Traditional Quaker memorial services are held as a form of worship and are known as memorial meetings. |
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Then, after the usual Quaker custom, everyone present signed the marriage lines as a witness. |
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Thomas Paine's natural justice beliefs may have been influenced by his Quaker father. |
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Russell first met the American Quaker Alys Pearsall Smith when he was 17 years old. |
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There is also a Quaker meetinghouse on Crown street, the only purpose built Quaker House in Scotland that is still in use today. |
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In the 2011 census 5,583 identified themselves as Brethren, 10,979 as Methodist, 1,339 as Quaker, 26,224 as Baptist, and 13,229 as Evangelical. |
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It has been commended for its sensitive depiction of the close relationship between the hero and his religious mentor, Quaker William Walters. |
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In his early life he was a Puritan, though towards the end of his life he became a Quaker. |
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It was here that Lilburne met Luke Howard, a Quaker whose serenity impressed him and began the process of his own conversion. |
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A conscientious objector on Welsh nationalist grounds, he served in a Quaker relief unit during the bombing of Liverpool. |
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Methodist, Quaker and Baptist preachers traveled in the South, appealing to slaveholders to manumit their slaves. |
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Quaker and Methodist ministers particularly urged slaveholders to free their slaves. |
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In 1688, four German Quakers in Germantown presented a protest against the institution of slavery to their local Quaker Meeting. |
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In Birmingham in the early 1690s Darby was apprenticed to Jonathan Freeth, a fellow Quaker and a manufacturer of brass mills for grinding malt. |
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He was the third man of that name in several generations of an English Quaker family that played a pivotal role in the Industrial Revolution. |
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He died in Madeley aged only 39 and was buried in the Quaker burial ground in Coalbrookdale. |
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Jacob Aldrich house typifies the early Quaker houses at Quaker City, and South Uxbridge. |
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In the 1650s, individual Quaker women prophesied and preached publicly, developing charismatic personas and spreading the sect. |
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The Familists continued to exist until the middle of the 17th century, when they were absorbed into the Quaker movement. |
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Quaker did not return a request for comment at the time of publishing. |
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Quaker meetings occur in India, Hong Kong, Korea, Philippines, Japan and Nepal. |
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As a Quaker I would be among the last to argue that God can be found only in a consecrated place of worship, though I uphold the value of corporate discipleship. |
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However, in the October 1770 elections, because of the fight over nonimportation, Philadelphia mechanics and carpenters abandoned the Quaker party for the Presbyterian party. |
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The nearby flour milling industry on the Brandywine River was large, but dominated by the Quaker millers of Wilmington who saw little potential in Evans's designs. |
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A breakthrough came in 1789 when the Ellicotts, a progressively minded Quaker family in Baltimore, invited Evans to refit their mills on the Patapsco River. |
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Birmingham, UK had a strong Quaker community during the war. |
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The Quaker gun found there was consigned to the flames to-day, and in its stead heavy artillery, of the genuine sort, commands all the surrounding country. |
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In 1887, a Gurneyite Quaker of British descent, Joseph Bevan Braithwaite, proposed to Friends a statement of faith known as the Richmond Declaration. |
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In some Quaker religious traditions, the coffin or ashes are not present. |
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The theological beliefs of Quaker yearly meetings vary considerably. |
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Quaker Paul Cuffee, a free black sea captain and businessman, was active in the abolitionist and resettlement movement in the early part of that century. |
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The main population elements included Quaker population based in Philadelphia, a Scotch Irish population on the Western frontier, and numerous German colonies in between. |
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Most Liberal Quaker Yearly Meetings publish a Faith and Practice, a book with a range of religious experiences of what it means to be a Friend in that Yearly Meeting. |
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One of the farmsteads covered was Hafod Fadog, a Quaker meeting place. |
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In the 19th century, there was a diversification of theological beliefs in the Religious Society of Friends, and this led to several large splits within the Quaker movement. |
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Lister came from a prosperous Quaker home in West Ham, Essex, England, a son of Joseph Jackson Lister, a pioneer of achromatic object lenses for the compound microscope. |
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The Quaker William Penn was sent to The Hague but William opposed repeal. |
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Quakers such as Hannah Whitall Smith and Robert Pearsall Smith became speakers in the religious movement and introduced Quaker phrases and practices to it. |
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The next section of the book traces two paradigm shifts in the understanding of gender and redemption, both of which take place within the context of the Quaker movement. |
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This is the first report of an air sac neoplasia in a quaker parrot and one of few respiratory tumors in psittacines. |
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