Brethren Assemblies

Famous quotes containing the words brethren and/or assemblies:

    “Mister Ward, don’t yur blud bile at the thawt that three million and a half of your culled brethren air a clanking their chains in the South?—Sez I, not a bile! Let ‘em clank!”
    —Artemus Ward (1834–1867)

    “He who comes into Assemblies only to gratifie his Curiosity, and not to make a Figure, enjoys the Pleasures of Retirement in a[n] ...exquisite Degree.”
    —Richard Steele (1672–1729)