Still-born Silence! t art
Flood-gate of t!
Offspring of a heavenly kind!
Frost o the mind!
Secrecys confident, and he
ery!
Admirations speakingst tongue!
Leave, t shades among,
Reverend s hallowed cells,
ired devotion dwells!
ithusiasms come,
Seize our tongues, and strike us dumb!*
[Footnote] * From quot; Poems of all sorts,quot; by Richard Fleckno, 1653.
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Reader, t true peace and quiet mean; titude; t once solitude and society; t in stillness, being s out from tory faces of t t accompanied; solitary, yet not desolate; singular, yet not some to keep tenance; a unit in aggregate; a simple in composite : -- come o a Quakers Meeting.
Dost t quot;before t; go not out into t into ties of t not up ts; nor pour o ttle cells of ttle-faitrusting Ulysses. -- Retire o a Quakers Meeting.
For a man to refrain even from good o is commendable; but for a multitude, it is great mastery.
is tillness of t, compared ting muteness of fis;Boreas, and Cesias, and Argestes loud,quot; do not er-confounding uproars more augment tic e (Silence iplied and rendered more intense by numbers, and by sympatoo call unto deeps. Negation itself ive more and less; and closed eyes o obscure t obscurity of midnight.
t solitude cannot I mean t tain in cro noing. t s did certainly understand tired into Egyptian solitudes, not singly, but in so enjoy one anot of conversation. to of incommunicativeness. In secular occasions, as to be reading a book ter evening, ting by -- say, a be probable), reading anot interruption, or oral communication? -- can t ting solitariness. Give me, Master Zimmerman, a sympatic solitude.
to pace alone in ters, or side aisles of some catime-stricken;
Or under ains,
Or by tains;
is but a vulgar luxury, compared e, abstracted solitude. t;to be felt.quot; -- tminster -sooting. ombs, no inscriptions,
-- sands, ignoble things,
Dropt from the ruined sides of kings--
but iquity o t of t -- primitive Discourser -- to , and, as ural progression.
hese hushed heads,
Looking tranquillity!
Notting, nougion intrigue! parliament debate! to council, and to consistory -- if my pen treat of you lig my spirit om, peace, ears urb, I ed to times of your beginnings, and tnessed t, y, inflexible to ts and serious violences of t soldiery, republican or royalist, sent to molest you -- for ye sate bet tions, t-cast and off-scoacle, ention of disturbing your quiet, from t of t a nely sit among ye as a lamb amidst lambs. And I remembered Penn before ed up in spirit, as ells us, and quot;t.quot;
Reader, if you are not acquainted , I o you, above all cives, to read Se is in folio, and is tract of tive Friends. It is far more edifying and affecting to stagger you, noto make you mistrust, no suspicion of alloy, no drop or dreg of tious spirit. You ory of t muc dreadful sufferings, patience, o tongue irons a murmur; and strengto, ised for blaspo clearer ts, rain of tifullest y, yet keep grounds, and be a Quaker still -- so different from tice of your common converts from entatize, apostatize all, and t far enougy of to tion of some saving trut implicated.
Get tings of Jo; and love the early Quakers.
to tive spirit, or in ion tituted formality for it, ts can alone determine. I e visibly brooding. Otcs ster engaged, in not a blank inanity. But quiet ion to unanimity, and troversial ual pretensions ted, at least tences. es tainly are not, in t is seldom indeed t you s up amongst to rembling, female, generally ancient, voice is guess from of ting it proceeds -- a feion of some present,quot; y of supposing t any ty enderness, and a restraining modesty.-- t I observed, speak seldomer.
Once only, and it nessed a sample of t stature, equipt in iron mail.quot; oo. But -- I dare not say, of delusion. trivings of ter man terable -- to speak, but to be spoken from. I sarong man bo o set off against Paul Preactered ing y effort, tors strain for t; in ; old us, till long after to I o recall triking incongruity of tanding term in its ation -- ies -- ter t Enna. -- By , even in ood somets of an alloy.
More frequently ting is broken up a made rop fiercest and savagest of all ures, tongue, t unruly member, rangely lain tied up and captive. You illness. ted, even tired to sickness of t a balm and a solace it is, to go and seat yourself, for a quiet ed corner of a bencle Quakers!
tillness conjoined, present an uniformity, tranquil and ure -- quot;forty feeding like one.quot; -
ts of a Quaker seem incapable of receiving a soil; and cleanliness in to be somets contrary. Every Quakeress is a lily; and sun-conferences, erly streets of tropolis, from all parts of ted Kingdom, troops of the Shining Ones.