| Friends At Their Own Fireside V1: Or Pictures Of The Private Life Of The People Called Quakers (1858) Contributor(s): Ellis, Sarah (Author) |
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ISBN: 1164652753 ISBN-13: 9781164652755 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $32.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections - Biography & Autobiography | Religious - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 356 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. We have now to look in again at the little cottage parlour, and to imagine Jane Gordon seated beside her friend in earnest conversation. Jane had as usual presided at the tea table, a task from which she was ever ready to relieve Aunt Isabel, and she had now a variety of services to perform in the way of winding skeins 'of worsted, sorting out and arranging patterns of work for different purposes, all which she did with so much cleverness of hand, and cheerfulness of spirit, that it would have been hard indeed to deprive the poor lame sufferer of so lively a companion, and so efficient a help. Jane had begun to interest herself very much in the principles and practices of the Society to which her friend belonged. She was no stranger to religious convictions, though one of a family in which such convictions, if at all at variancewith established custom, would be likely to be considered extravagant, uncalled for, and in bad taste. But Jane had learned to look at human life from a different point of view, and such was her admiration for Aunt Isabel, that she often thought a religion which could produce even one such character, must have something in it of reality and depth beyond what she had been accustomed to meet with elsewhere. Thus she frequently questioned her friend, and sometimes almost too closely, respecting the reasons for her peculiar habits, as well as the grounds of her belief. It was by no means the most edifying part of Aunt Isabel's conversation when she replied to these enquiries; for, like her brother Jacob, she could live the Christian's life better than she could define the Christian's faith. It was pleasant to her, however, that Jane should be enquiring; and if she did not always satisfy her reasoning and ardent mind, she managed to give th... |