Quaker language._


CHAPTER IV.

_Address--common personal gestures or worldly ceremonies of address
forbidden--no exception in favour of royalty--reasons against the disuse
of these._


CHAPTER V.

_Manners and conversation--hospitality and freedom in Quakers'
houses--their conversation more limited than that of others--subjects of
conversation examined in our towns--and in the metropolis--extraordinary
circumstance that takes place occasionally in the company of the
Quakers._


CHAPTER VI.

_Customs before meals--ancients made an oblation to Vesta--moderns have
substituted grace--account of a Quaker-grace._


CHAPTER VII.

_Customs at and after meals--Quakers never drink healths or
toasts--various reasons for their disuse of these customs--and seldom
allow women to retire after dinner and leave the men drinking--Quakers a