Account Of The People Called Shakers To Which Is Affixed A History Of Their Rise And Progress To The Present Day PDF Download

Excerpt from Account of the People Called Shakers: Their Faith, Doctrines, and Practice, Exemplified in the Life, Conversations, and Experience of the Author During the Time That He Belonged to the Society; To Which Is Affixed a History of Their Rise and Progress to the Present Day Be It Remembered, that on the third day of February, in the thirty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Thomas Brown, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: "An account of the People called Shakers: their Faith, Doctrines, and Practice, exemplified in the Life, Conversations, and experience of the author, during the time he belonged to the society. To which is affixed a History of their Rise and Progress to the present day. By Thomas Brown, of Cornwall, Orange County, State of New-York. Prove all things, hold fast to that which is good - Apostle Paul. An historian should not dare to tell a falsehood, or leave a truth untold - Cicero" In conformity to the Act to the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.