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Language Quakers differ in their language from others the first alteration made by George Fox of thou for you this change had been suggested by Erasmus and Luther sufferings of the Quakers in consequence of adapting this change a work published in their defence this presented to King Charles and others other works on the subject by Barclay and Penn in these the word thou shewn to be proper in all languages you to be a mark of flattery the latter idea corroborated by Harwell, Maresius, Godeau, Erasmus.
He says also in his History of France, that "in ancient times, the peasants addressed their kings by the appellation of thou, but that pride and flattery first put inferiors upon paying a plural respect to the single person of every superior, and superiors upon receiving it." John Maresius, of the French Academy, in the preface to his Clovis, speaks much to the same effect.
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