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...suggest that if you are trying to use the old-fashioned form of address found in the King James Bible and surviving to some extent in poetry and prayer, the proper form is "How Art Thou?" But if it is the Quaker usage you are striving after, the form is "How Is Thee?", though I do not know whether the Quakers actually use this phrase...
Besides their great literary contemporaries, the Lambs were friends with such characters as Thomas Manning, the vagrant Orientalist, who always carried peppers in his pockets; Charles Lloyd, a neurotic Quaker, whose piano thumping drove Charles Lamb to write The Old Familiar Faces; George Dyer, who could never distinguish between prose and poetry, was so near-sighted that he once disappeared into a river while the Lambs' maid was watching. Doctors sometimes advised Charles Lamb that this eccentric circle was not the healthiest one for a spinster afflicted with intermittent lunacy. But Mary Lamb seems to have felt quite...
...childlike Eskimos of Alaska, fascinated by the white man's guns, began shooting walrus and caribou with more enthusiasm than discretion. That, plus annual fluctuations in the whale catch, caused recurrent famine years. So in 1892, a notable famine year, a Presbyterian missionary named Sheldon Jackson, backed by Quaker funds, undertook an experiment in practical ecology, which is the science that relates living organisms to their environment. Reindeer were imported from Siberia into Alaska for the Eskimos' benefit. Unlike its close relative the caribou of Alaska, the Siberian reindeer is easily domesticated. It was figured that the little...
...almost court-martialed for calling Premier Mussolini a "hit-and-run driver." Retired, General Butler lectured for peace, published a book entitled War Is a Racket, advocated complete U. S. isolation coupled with an ironclad defense a rat couldn't crawl through." He was a Quaker...
...bright young man. St. Paul-born, he was graduated summa cum laude from Minnesota's Carleton College (1926), studied a year at Yale Divinity School, a year at Harvard Graduate School, went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Since 1931 Mr. Nason has taught philosophy at Quaker Swarthmore. He married a Quaker, two years ago became one himself...