Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 60 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 60: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This is a page of running prose from the middle of a serialized narrative titled "A Month's Tour" (page 60). The text discusses Quaker religious practices and social insularity, using a anecdote to illustrate their supposed indifference toward non-Quakers. A seven-year-old Quaker child, dining with an Anglican clergyman, allegedly expressed a crude wish that all the table's wine and glassware were in his stomach—behavior the narrator presents as evidence of Quaker teachings that promote loyalty to their own community while cultivating "total disregard for all others." The passage employs period typography (long s's) typical of late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century printing.
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