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at Bevciley, wliicli had this infcription : Hu;c fedes lapidea 
tieedftoll dicitur, i.e. pads cathedra, ad quani reus fu^iendo 
p<:rveniens, omnimodam habet fecuritathn. 
FRIED'BERG, a town of Silefia, in the principality 
of NeiU'e: (ix miles (outlt-wefi: of Ziegenlials. 
FRIEU'BEKG, oi- Fhiedenburg, a town of Silefia, 
in tlie principality of Jauer-, on the (^neifs: eleven miles 
f'oiitli-wett of Lowenberg, and fourteen weft-jiorth-weft 
of Hirfchberg. 
FRIliD'BERG HO'HEN, a town of Silefia, in the 
principality of Schweidnitz, where the king of Prufiia 
defeated the Auftrians, on the 4th of June, 1745: five 
miles foiith-weft of Striegau, and ten north.weft of 
Scliweidnitz. 
FRIED'BURG, a Moravian fettlement in Wachovia, 
or Surrey county, North Carolina. 
. F'RIE'DEBERG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and New Mark of Branslenburg : forty- 
fix miles north-eaft of Frankfort on tlie Oder, and eighty- 
two eaft-noi tli-eaft of Berlin. 
ERIE DEBURG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and county of Mansfeld: four miles eaft 
of Gerbftadt. * 
FRIE'DEBURG, a town of Gerieiany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and county of Eaft I'rieflandt twenty-two 
miles eaft-north eaft of Embden. Lat, 53. 30. N. Ion. 
25. S. E. Ferro. 
FR lE'DEI,AND, a town of Silefia, in the principality 
of Schweidnitz : fixteen miles fouth-weft of Schweidnitz. 
FRIE'DENSHUETTEN, a Moravian fettlement, 
whole name fignifies Tents of Peace, fitiiated on Sufque- 
hannah river, in Pennfylvania, about twenty-four miles 
below Tioga point j eftablifiied by the United Brethren 
in 1765. It then confifted of thirteen Indian huts, and 
upwards of forty houfes, built after the European man¬ 
ner, with a neat chapel. Next to the houfes the ground 
was laid out in gardens; and between the fettlement and 
the river about 250 acres were divided into regular plan¬ 
tations of Indian corn. 
FRIE'DENSTADT, or Town of Peace, a Moravian 
fettlement which was eftablifiied between Great Beaver 
and Yellow creeks : about forty miles north-weft of 
Pittfburg. It was abandoned in 1773. 
FRIE'DEWALDE, a town of Silefia, in the principa¬ 
lity of Neifi'e: fix miles fouth of Grotkau. 
FRIE'DERICKSTyED, a town on the weft coaft of 
the ifiand of Santa Cruz. Lat. 17. 48. N. Ion. 93. 25. 
W. Greenwich. 
FRIED'LAND, a town of Moravia, in the circle of 
Olmutz; eighteen miles north.north-eaft of Olmutz. 
FRIED'LAND, a town of Lufatia, on a canal which 
communicates with the Spree : eight miles north of 
Lieberofe. 
FRIED'LAND, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Bolellau : nine miles north-eaft of Krottau. 
FRIED'LAND, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
■Upper Saxony, and duchy of Mecklenburg : fourteen 
miles north-eaft of New Brandenburg. '' 
FRIED’LAND, a Moravian fettlement in Wachovia. 
FRIED'LINGEN, or Fridlingen, a town and fort of 
Germany, in the circle of Swabia, near the Rhine, be¬ 
tween Uuningue and Bale. In 1702, a battle was fought 
here between the Imperialifts under the command of 
prince Louis of Baden, and the French under the marquis 
de Villars, in which the latter were vidlorious, and after¬ 
wards took the town. 
FRIE'LED, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Snialand . thirty-three miles north-weft of Wexio. 
FRIEND, f. \yriend, Dut. pfieonb. Sax.] This 
word, with its derivatives, is pronounced frend, frendly: 
the i totally negledfed. One joined to another in mu¬ 
tual benevolence and intimacy: oppofed to foe or enemy. 
—Some man is a friend for his own occafion, and will not 
abide in the day of thy trouble. EccUts, vi. 8. 
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God’s benifon go with you, and with thofe 
That would make good of bad, and friends of*foes. 
Shakefpeare. 
Wonder not to fee this foul extend 
The bounds, and feek fome other felf a friend. Dryden. 
One without hofiile intentions: 
Who comes fo faft in filence of the night ? 
—A friend. —What friend? your name. Shakefpeare. 
One reconciled to another: this is put, by the cuftom of 
the language, fomewhat irregularly-in the plural number: 
He’s friends with Caefar, 
In ftate of health thou fay’ft, and thou fay’ft free. Shakefp. 
An attendant or companion ; 
Tlie king ordains their entrance, and afeends 
His regal feat, furrounded by his friends. Dryden. 
Favourer ; one propitious.—.Aurora, riding upon Pega. 
fus, (heweth her fwiftnefs, and how fhe is a friend to poe¬ 
try, and all ingenious inventions. Peacham. —A familiar 
compellation.— Friend, how cameft thou in hither > Mat. 
tliew, xxii. 12. 
What fupports me, do’ft thou afle ? 
The confcience, friend, t’ have loft mine eyes o’erply’d 
In liberty’s defence. Milton. 
A quaker. 
The Friends, or Quakers, are a fedl of diflenters from 
the church of England, which, from the ftriking differ¬ 
ence they exhibit in appearance, manners, and worfhip, 
from the generality of their countrymen, among whom 
they neverthelefs live in commercial and focial inter- 
courfe, forms an interefting fubjedl of enquiry to the con¬ 
templative and obferving mind. In our account of tliem, 
we (hall firft advert to that which is moll immediately 
obvious; tlieir condufl with refpeit to the reft of the 
world : in the next place, to their more domeftic econo¬ 
my, and their dealings with each other. It will then be 
proper to trace thefe pra6tices to the principles from 
which they have proceeded ; and, laftly, a (ketch of the 
hiftory and prefent (late of this people, will complete the 
account. 
The firft thing which occurs to an obferver in feeing a 
quaker, is hisunornamented, and fometimesunfafhionable, 
drefs: for the former, a defire to avoid that which is fu- 
perfluous, and a fear to adopt that which is thought to 
promote perfonal pride, are the affigned motives; and 
with regard to the latter fingularity, it may be obferved 
that falhion, ever varying, rather leaves the quaker, who 
thinks frequent change inconfiftent with a religious cha- 
rafter, than the quaker forfakes the fa.fiiion. If we ftep 
into their houfes, we obferve more or lefs of the fame 
fimplicity in their furniture, and their tables, and the like 
abftinence from fuperfluity in the time fpent in convivial 
enjoyments. If we next obferve their converfation, it 
will be found to be void of the compliments, and hyper¬ 
bolical defeription, which are fo much the feafoning of 
modern difeourfe; but that which gives it the greateft 
appearance of fingularity, is the pradfice of ufing the fe- 
cond perfon fingular in fpeaking to one ; their difufe of 
the appellations Mr. Mrs. Sir, Madam, &c. and, when 
they mention the months or days of the week, calling 
them by numerical names, as firft month, fecond day, 
and the like. In conformity with this ftriiftnefs of do¬ 
meftic life, they forbear alfo to join with their neighbours 
in public amufements; and inoeed they inveigh againft 
them', as not only a wafte of much time, which might be 
employed to beneficial purpofe, and often deftriictive of 
health, but alfo as the means of enfeebling the mind and 
unfitting it to bear the difficulties which are the lot of 
human nature ; and further, as an inrroduClion to diffi- 
pation, and licentioufnefs of condull. They neverthelefs 
join with the reft of the community in many objeifts of 
public 
