Excerpt from The Life of Thomas Story, Carefully Abridged: In Which the Principal Occurrences and the Most Interesting Remarks and Observations Are Retained At one time I was at friends meeting on a week-day, at Broughton, in the county of Cumberland, where I applied my mind with as much diligence as I could, to examine what I could discern in their way: but though I observed they were very grave, serious, and solid, in the time of their worship, I could gather but little at that time, either from their manner or do trine; only I took them to be an honest, innocent, well meaning sefit. 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.