The history of freemasonry, Volume 1Thomas C. Jack, 1882 - Freemasonry |
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Page 36 - In Arabia as well as in Greece, the perfection of language outstripped the refinement of manners; and her speech could diversify the fourscore names of honey, the two hundred of a serpent, the five hundred of a lion, the thousand of a sword, at a time when this copious dictionary was entrusted to the memory of an illiterate people.
Page 87 - And, that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars ;* the one of brick, the other of stone ; they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind ; and also inform...
Page 79 - I have heard one of the greatest geniuses this age has produced,' who had been trained up. in all the polite studies of antiquity, assure me,* upon his being obliged to search into several rolls and records, that notwithstanding such an employment was at first very dry and irksome to him, he at last took an incredible pleas' ure in it, and preferred it even to the reading of Virgil or Cicero.
Page 245 - In ancient Greece, when the priests were engaged in the rite of sacrifice, they and the people always walked three times round the altar while singing a sacred hymn. In making this procession, great care was taken to move in imitation of the course of the sun. For this purpose, they commenced at the east, and passing on by the way of the south to the west and thence by the north, they arrived at the east again...
Page 8 - Coluaiba had the curiosity to take a farewell look at his old friend, and caused the earth to be removed : to the surprise of all beholders, Oran started up, and began to reveal the secrets of his prison-house ; and particularly declared that all that he had said of hell was a mere joke.
Page 88 - AB, doe in the presence of Almighty God and my Fellows and Brethren here present, promise and declare that I will not at any time hereafter, by any act or circumstance whatsoever, directly or indirectly, publish, discover...
Page 10 - ... formerly rejected, and by rejection brought into oblivion : as if the multitude, or the wisest for the multitude's sake, were not ready to give passage rather to that which is popular and superficial than to that which is substantial and profound ; for the truth is, that time...
Page 88 - Free Mason, shall bring to the Master a note of the time of his acception to the end the same may bee enroll'd in such priority of place of the p'son shall deserve, and to y° end the whole company and fellows may the better know each other.
Page 103 - THE CHARGES OF A FREE-MASON EXTRACTED FROM The ancient Records of Lodges beyond the Sea, and of those in England, Scotland, and Ireland, for the use of 'the Lodges in London. To be read at the making of New Brethren, or when the Master shall order it.
Page 88 - That every person who is now a Freemason, shall bring to the Master a note of the time of his acceptation, to the end the same may be enrolled in such priority of place as the brother deserves ; and that the whole company and fellows may the better know each other.