Among those observing the Hiroshima anniversary will be hundreds of Quakers in York, during their annual gathering at York University. |
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The Moravians, and many Quakers, sided with the government against the Regulators or remained neutral. |
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The Quakers started like a team with championship ambition, as purposeful and bright as their garish yellow shirts. |
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It was passed through history by the Shaking Quakers, the Shakers, and that particular song is a call to simplicity, which is very interesting. |
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They were part of English nonconformity which included Independents and Quakers. |
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The movement he founded came to be known as the Quakers, or more correctly, the Religious Society of Friends. |
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I worked in Vienna in a therapeutic home which was founded by some American Quakers after the war. |
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It reminded me that Virginia used to impose a fine of 100 pounds on ship's captains landing Quakers in the colony. |
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It was Gary Bennett's Quakers who kick-started City's recent slide with their 4-0 hammering of the Minstermen in the LDV Vans Trophy last month. |
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His studies of the Quakers and of pietism described passive inwardness and feeling as the dominant characteristics of the German Enlightenment. |
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We have allies among the Quakers, the Mennonites, and the members of the United Church of Christ. |
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She wrote to the Society of Friends or Quakers in Dublin asking for relief and describing the appalling conditions of the times. |
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It will not work to teach kids to be unaggressive because we do not have a society dominated by Quakers and pacifists. |
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Some of these groups, including the Baptists, Quakers, and Mennonites, developed their own forms of worship. |
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The lecture will examine the faith and beliefs of 17th century Quakers and their relevance to today's society. |
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In so doing, McDowell greatly extends our understanding of the intellectual roots of the Levelers, the Quakers, and the Ranters. |
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The Quakers of Pembrokeshire will be arranging a fortnight of activities in honour of the Pembrokeshire verse-maker. |
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Are the Seventh day Adventists and the Quakers just influences, like the blues or country traditions sampled here? |
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I particularly enjoy the Sunday silence at my Quakers meeting house, which gives me much restoration of spirit. |
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Although thousands of Barbadians died from yellow fever and smallpox, Quakers were particularly hard hit. |
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Quakers range right across from very Christo-centric friends, right through to what we call universalists. |
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But at the same time, the Quakers were religious outlaws who emigrated to America. |
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The Quakers also rejected the use of you as a polite form of address, and preferred thou, which to them signalled intimacy and equality. |
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Despite the attempts to prevent unlawful conventicles, the Baptists, Quakers, and other radicals were not to be uprooted. |
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Indeed, he commended the Quakers, who rejected the sacraments, for their stress on God as Spirit. |
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My one and only ramble came when a family of Quakers took me on their family walk across the Chilterns, walking sticks, knapsacks and all. |
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Modern day Quakers will be leading tours around the building and the grounds and answering questions from visitors. |
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This had the effect of excluding Quakers from certain public offices, most significantly those of magistrates and judges. |
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Quakers have no fixed doctrines, rather expressing faith through action. |
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This was also true for the Protestant denominations, including the Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Unitarians, Baptists, and Quakers. |
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My first teacher practiced for a long time with Quakers because they were the only group in her area that found the same value in sitting still and contemplating. |
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Similarly, as elsewhere, those at the forefront of the anti-slavery movement were overwhelmingly Methodists, Presbyterians and other Protestants, and Quakers. |
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Anglicans were the most numerous in the city, with Quakers a close second. |
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Unlike residents of many of the colonies, Quakers chose to trade peacefully with the Indians, including for land. |
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Under these waters and near this stone stood Hafod Fadog, a farmstead where in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Quakers met for worship. |
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Quakers travel from distances around Pembroke to worship at the Friends House. |
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Baptists, Quakers, German and Swiss Protestants and Anabaptists flocked to Pennsylvania. |
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Quakers were frequently imprisoned because of their refusal to swear loyalty oaths. |
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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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Most kept a low profile, but the Quakers, especially in Pennsylvania, were the most important group to speak out for neutrality. |
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There was a small community of Quakers in Bristol, and Darby soon gained a reputation for skill and enterprise. |
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In 1702 Darby joined with a number of fellow Quakers to form the Bristol Brass Company, with works at Baptist Mills in Bristol. |
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Abolitionist Quakers with ties to Moses Brown first resettled here from Rhode Island. |
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Constitution from Rhode Island Quakers, trial by jury, equal rights for men and women, and public education. |
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Quakers in Great Britain only recognised the Orthodox Quakers and refused to correspond with the Hicksites. |
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The Quakers were a loosely knit group of teachers that grew out of the Seekers. |
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Quakers result from sphagnum moss growing over the water that accumulates in the hollows in the granite. |
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The Quakers had an early meeting house in the town, replaced in 1715 by one at Underskiddaw. |
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Ann Lee from Manchester started the USA Shakers movement, founded out of the Quakers, which itself has strong links to Pendle Hill in Lancashire. |
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Even the Quakers, although they allow not music, yet preach intoningly, in a singsong way. Music is the natural outlet of devotion. |
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He attended University College, London, one of only a few institutions which accepted Quakers at that time. |
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He subsequently left the Quakers, joined the Scottish Episcopal Church, and eventually married Syme's daughter, Agnes. |
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A variety of dissenting congregations such as the Quakers and Baptists were to be found in certain districts. |
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George Fox was an English dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. |
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Quakers focused their private life on developing behaviour and speech reflecting emotional purity and the light of God. |
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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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William Penn signed a peace treaty with Tammany, leader of the Delaware tribe, and other treaties followed between Quakers and Native Americans. |
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Hicksites tended to be agrarian and poorer than the more urban, wealthier, Orthodox Quakers. |
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Quakers in Great Britain only recognized the Orthodox Quakers and refused to correspond with the Hicksites. |
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These Quaker yearly meetings make up the largest proportion of Quakers in the world today. |
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International volunteering organisations such as Service Civil International and International Voluntary Service were founded by leading Quakers. |
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Initially, Quakers had no ordained clergy, and thus needed no seminaries for theological training. |
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Some Quakers in North America and Great Britain became well known for their involvement in the abolition of slavery. |
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During the 19th Century, Quakers such as Levi Coffin played a major role in helping enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad. |
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Quakers traditionally use numbers to denominate the names of the months and days of the week, something they call the plain calendar. |
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When this happens, Quakers believe that the spirit of God is speaking through the speaker. |
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Quakers consider this to be a form of worship, conducted in the manner of meeting for worship. |
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In Great Britain, Quakers keep a separate record of the union and notify the General Register Office. |
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Quakers routinely modify the document to allow three or four Friends to sign as the officiant. |
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Other countries with over 5,000 Quakers are Burundi, Bolivia, Canada, Guatemala, Nepal, Taiwan, Uganda, United Kingdom, and the United States. |
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Milton had come to stand apart from all sects, though apparently finding the Quakers most congenial. |
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The regime extended toleration to Protestants, including sectaries, but the only significant groups were a small number of Quakers. |
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Quakers who refused to join either side also had their property taken away. |
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Lilburne declared himself a convert to the tenets of the Quakers, and announced his conversion in a letter to his wife. |
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Notably, Kenya has the highest number of Quakers in the world, with around 133,000 members. |
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The Puritans of New England kept in close touch with nonconformists in England, as did the Quakers and the Methodists. |
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Puritans in New England and Quakers in Pennsylvania opposed theatrical performances as immoral and ungodly. |
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Rural Quakers preferred simple designs in furnishings such as tables, chairs, and chests, and shunned elaborate decorations. |
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A STOPPAGE-time goal by striker Graeme Armstrong earned Quakers a point at Skelmersdale last night. |
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Pacifism is flagrantly immoral PHIL Braithwaite applauds the pacifism of the Quakers. |
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More than 97 per cent of members backed the move to demutualise the group, founded in 1832 to provide life insurance for Quakers. |
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Later, such groups as the Anabaptists, Quakers, Moravians, Dukhobors and Mennonites made nonresistance a doctrinal position. |
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Orthodox Quakers were less supportive of women than the Hicksite Quakers, frustrating Sarah's intention to be recognized as a minister. |
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The critical players are not the consumers of Monopoly, but the Georgists and Quakers making the game. |
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In 1670 two Quakers charged with unlawful assembly, William Penn and William Mead, were found not guilty at the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey by a jury. |
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Though the majority of Quakers attempted to remain neutral, a sizable number of Quakers in the American Revolution nevertheless participated to some degree. |
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Other Protestant groups took a different attitude, with most Anabaptists, Quakers, Congregationalists and Presbyterian Puritans regarding such festivals as an abomination. |
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Brighton's Quakers run the Friends' Meeting House in the Lanes. |
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In Rhode Island, 36 governors in the first 100 years were Quakers. |
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Curzon should now win the Evo-Stik League First Division North title, and third-placed Quakers cannot afford many more slip ups in the remaining eight games. |
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Navy, and Irving Stowe and Dorothy Stowe, who had recently become Quakers. |
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From this valley came many of the early Quakers who emigrated to Pennsylvania, driven from their homes by persecution to seek freedom of worship in the New World. |
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The three colonies that tolerated Quakers at this time were West Jersey, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania, where Quakers established themselves politically. |
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She was one of the four executed Quakers known as the Boston martyrs. |
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Baptists, Quakers, and Methodists are organized in a similar way. |
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During the Philadelphia campaign, British officers deeply offended local Quakers by entertaining their mistresses in the houses they had been quartered in. |
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However, some urban Quakers had much more elaborate furniture. |
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Other areas tackled under the clean-up scheme since January included Goitre Lane, Gurnos, Tai Mawr Way, Swansea Road, Balaclava Road, Dowlais and the Gutty in Quakers Yard. |
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Parliament had imposed a series of disabilities on Nonconformists, Including Methodists, Congregationalists, Unitarians, Quakers and Presbyterians outside Scotland. |
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William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1682, and attracted an influx of British Quakers with his policies of religious liberty and freehold ownership. |
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Quakers sit quietly until moved by the Holy Spirit to speak. |
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Considerable distances between the colonies and small numbers of Quakers meant that Australia Friends were dependent on London until the 20th century. |
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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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Early colonial Quakers also established communities and meeting houses in North Carolina and Maryland, after fleeing persecution by the Anglician Church in Virginia. |
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Let Quakers and others idly dream of such utopical Perfection, and not us. |
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The group grew out of the Ranters and in opposition to the Quakers. |
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Eventually, some of these merged with the Quakers of the time. |
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In 1889 it was estimated that there were about 30 Quakers in Auckland. |
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Quakers including Richard Mowry migrated here from Smithfield, Rhode Island, and built mills, railroads, houses, tools and Conestoga wagon wheels. |
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In 1681, William Penn, who wanted to give Quakers a land of religious freedom, founded Pennsylvania and extended freedom of religion to all citizens. |
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