The Quarterly Magazine of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows, Manchester UnityG.M. and Board of Directors, 1862 - Fraternal organizations |
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Page 235 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Page 69 - ... insuring money to be paid on the birth of a member's child, or on the death of a member, or for the funeral expenses of the husband, wife, or child of a member...
Page 214 - For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
Page 236 - There is an acre sown with royal seed, the copy of the greatest change, from rich to naked, from ceiled roofs to arched coffins, from living like gods to die like men.
Page 154 - No dread of toil have we or ours; We know our worth, and weigh our powers ; The more we work, the more we win ; Success to trade ! Success to spade ! And to the corn that's coming in. And joy to him who o'er his task, Remembers toil is Nature's plan ; Who, working, thinks, And never sinks His independence as a man...
Page 240 - BE kind to each other! The night's coming on, When friend and when brother Perchance may be gone ! Then midst our dejection, How sweet to have earned The blest recollection Of kindness — returned!
Page 154 - Who only asks for humblest wealth, Enough for competence and health, And leisure, when his work is done To read his book, By chimney nook, Or stroll at setting of the sun — Who toils as every man should toil, For fair reward, erect and free; These are the men — The best of men — These are the men we mean to be.
Page 96 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 153 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Page 109 - An equal number of maids and bachelors get together ; each writes their true or some feigned name upon separate billets, which they roll up, and draw by way of lots, the maids taking the men's billets, and the men the maids...