Gregory's ServerI've seen this quote before, but was surprised to actually come across it while reading.
For those who wish to see what happens next, the text is available online:
https://archive.org/details/historyoflifeoft00ellw/page/24/mode/2up
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@jetton Few people seem to get that, unlike modern pronoun rants, this was a rant *for* equality against the still newish practice of using ‘you’ to flatter social ‘superiors’. If ‘thou’ was good enough for God, it was good enough for me and thee. Still, a fun rant to look back on. @jetton Someday I want know if there’s a rule for using long S vs curvy S seems like there’s not @notGordonAllport  @jetton @notGordonAllport Also if there's a doubled 's', you would generally use short 's' for the second of the two, so for instance "possess" would usually be "poſseſs" rather than "poſſeſs". (This isn't consistent but it was general practice; it's just more readable). @adrienne @jetton @notGordonAllport I've seen a few of these, often with ligatures (even in typeface), so kinda like a modern German ß but with a tail. @jgamble I'm not sure what it says about me that I find the original text easier to read than the modernized one. |
And, yes, early #Quakers were weird.
We're still weird, just in different ways.