 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 432 pages
...elegant and able letters of this statesman, on Greek Literature, addressed to the late Gilbert Wakefield. Fox (George), the founder of the society of Friends or Quakers, was a native of Leicestershire, and born at Drayton some time in 1624. His father was a weaver, and apprenticed... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Biography - 1832 - 540 pages
...herself by carrying into effect the sentence which condemned two anabaptists to the flamee as heretics. FOX, GEORGE, the founder of the society of friends, or quakers, was born, in 1624, at Draylon, in Leicestershire; and was the son of a weaver, a pious and virtuous man, who... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 630 pages
...line swiftly drawn afong the surface, the parts of the animal's body being wholly undistinguishable. Its body is slender, and the tail rather long, cylindrical...Quakers, was born at Drayton, in Leicestershire, in 1624. HB father, who was' a weaver, educated him religiously. Being apprenticed to a grazier, he was much... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 246 pages
...writings and genius have appeared in periodical works. BoRN AD 1624. — DIED AD 1690. GEORGE Fox, the founder of the society of friends or quakers, was born at Fenny-Drayton, a village of Leicestershire, in the year 1G24. His father is reputed to have been a... | |
 | 1844 - 636 pages
...line swiftly drawn along the surface, the parts of the animal's body being wholly undistingnishable. Its body is slender, and the tail rather long, cylindrical...fine, dense and soft. It somewhat resembles the C. corsox, which inhabits the vast plains of Tartary. Fox, George, the founder of the society of Friends,... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 886 pages
...line swiftly drawn along the surface, the parts of the animal's body being wholly undistinguishable. Its body is slender, and the tail rather long, cylindrical,...is fine, dense, and soft. It somewhat resembles the ' eorsac, which inhabits the vast plains of Tartary. FOX, GEORGE, the founder of the society of Friends,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Biography - 1849 - 544 pages
...herself by carrying into effect the sentence which condcmnedtwo anabaptiste to the dames as heretics. FOX, GEORGE, the founder of the society of friends, or quakers, was born, in 1624, at Drayton, in Leicestershire; and was the son of a -weaver, a pious and virttoop man, who... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 630 pages
...line swiftly drawn along the surface, the parts of the animal's body being wholly undistinguishable. Its body is slender, and the tail rather long, cylindrical...educated him religiously. Being apprenticed to a grazier, be was much employed in the keeping of sheep; and it is thought that so solitary an employment confirmed... | |
 | John Gorton - Biography - 1851 - 736 pages
...lord Stafford. He also wrote " Annotations upon Mantuan the Poet," &c.— Bieg. Brit. FOX (GtoRot) the founder of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, was born at Drayton in Leicestershire, in 16Ü4. His father, who was a weaver, educated him very religiously, and being apprenticed to a grazier,... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 918 pages
...influence in that cause as a politician, as a divine he never openly espoused it. Died, 1536. FOX, GEORGE, founder of the society of Friends, or Quakers, was born at Drayton, Leicestershire, in 1624, and apprenticed to a grazier. At the age of 19 he persuaded himself that he... | |
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Quakers, was born at Drayton, in Leicestershire, in 1624. His father, who was a weaver, educated him religiously. Being apprenticed to a grazier... 
