spirit-merchant

Updated: May 15, 2025

A Quaker-bookseller, according to these positions, cannot sell a profane or improper book. A Quaker spirit-merchant cannot sell his liquor but to those whom he believes will use it in moderation, or medicinally, or on proper occasions. A Quaker, who is a manufacturer of cotton, cannot exercise his occupation but upon an amended plan.

Thomas Clarkson - A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 : Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends

Thompson, the spirit-merchant, of Holborn-hill, and Mr. Alexander Galloway, with a few others, decidedly hostile to the measures of Mr. Waithman, but wanting the resolution and the confidence to oppose him openly.

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3

Those, however, which I purpose to select for mention, I shall accompany with all the distinctions which equity demands on the occasion. The trade of a distiller, or of a spirit-merchant, is considered as objectionable if in the hands of a Quaker.

Thomas Clarkson - A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 : Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends