The nineteenth-century saw the rise of a prosperous merchant class in Philadelphia. We are offering biographies of two of these successful business men, as well as a study of the sociological factors that influenced them. Cope, Thomas P. Philadelphia Merchant: The Diary of Thomas P. Cope, 1800-1851. South Bend, IN: Gateway Editions, 1978, 628 pages. [...]
May 2007
The “Quaker Bible†is an eighteenth-century translation into English of the Christian Bible by Anthony Purver, a Quaker shoemaker. He taught himself Hebrew, Greek and Latin in order to understand the Bible and worked alone for thirty years in developing his translation. Another Quaker, Dr. John Fothergill, published this Bible at his own expense in [...]
