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The Freemasons' Magazine: Or, General And Complete Library.
their lives to recommend the profession , and to prove , that Free Masonry is only another term for inflexible Virtue . It is matter of real regret when we see men whose principles and whose practice would do honour to our Order deterrecLfrom uniting with us , by the improper and indefensible conduct of a few members of the Fraternityand till some mode of selection like that
; above proposed be attempted , reproach , I fear , must continue to occupy the place of respect , and prejudice counteract the efforts of an incomparable scheme of morality . ; To concentrate the rays of this comprehensive system is the object of the writer of this paper , who , having small expectations of success from his own personal influence , wishes only to call forth to the artwho h latent
the endeavours of those friends , , thougyet , lie thinks , wait but asignal to endue themselves with energy , and to accomplish tjje grand design of the Institution . I am , with great Truth , " . Your Friend and Brother , A M EMBER OF THE LODGE OF ASTIQUIT Y ' . S . J .
Letter Ii. From A Gentleman At Philadelphia To His Friend In Glascow, On The Subject Of Free Masonry.
LETTER II . From a Gentleman at PHILADELPHIA to his Friend in GLASCOW , on the Subject of FREE MASONRY .
SIR , ' . THE second property I shall take notice of in-Operative Masonry is the magnitude of it's productions ; in this it is o-reatly distinguished from all other arts , and truly imitative of it ' s Sreat Founder . If none of the productions of this art are so great as the basis on which they are erected—the general foundation allowed much
built by God , —yet it must be they nobly aspire nearer to it , than it is possible for any thing that can ever be produced by any other species of mechanism . To only mention this ^ is a sufficient proof of the truth of . the assertion . There is no necessity to have recourse to the tower of Babylon , the pyramids of other wonder of the world in order to prove this :
Egypt , or any let any man in any inhabited part of the earth , look around them > and say , if any objects bear such-a similarity to the works of the first great builder as those of inferior Masons do . But in this respect also there is a particular resemblance between Free and Operative Masonry . As the one is superior to all other arts in point of magnitude , so the other exceeds any other sect oi
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Magazine: Or, General And Complete Library.
their lives to recommend the profession , and to prove , that Free Masonry is only another term for inflexible Virtue . It is matter of real regret when we see men whose principles and whose practice would do honour to our Order deterrecLfrom uniting with us , by the improper and indefensible conduct of a few members of the Fraternityand till some mode of selection like that
; above proposed be attempted , reproach , I fear , must continue to occupy the place of respect , and prejudice counteract the efforts of an incomparable scheme of morality . ; To concentrate the rays of this comprehensive system is the object of the writer of this paper , who , having small expectations of success from his own personal influence , wishes only to call forth to the artwho h latent
the endeavours of those friends , , thougyet , lie thinks , wait but asignal to endue themselves with energy , and to accomplish tjje grand design of the Institution . I am , with great Truth , " . Your Friend and Brother , A M EMBER OF THE LODGE OF ASTIQUIT Y ' . S . J .
Letter Ii. From A Gentleman At Philadelphia To His Friend In Glascow, On The Subject Of Free Masonry.
LETTER II . From a Gentleman at PHILADELPHIA to his Friend in GLASCOW , on the Subject of FREE MASONRY .
SIR , ' . THE second property I shall take notice of in-Operative Masonry is the magnitude of it's productions ; in this it is o-reatly distinguished from all other arts , and truly imitative of it ' s Sreat Founder . If none of the productions of this art are so great as the basis on which they are erected—the general foundation allowed much
built by God , —yet it must be they nobly aspire nearer to it , than it is possible for any thing that can ever be produced by any other species of mechanism . To only mention this ^ is a sufficient proof of the truth of . the assertion . There is no necessity to have recourse to the tower of Babylon , the pyramids of other wonder of the world in order to prove this :
Egypt , or any let any man in any inhabited part of the earth , look around them > and say , if any objects bear such-a similarity to the works of the first great builder as those of inferior Masons do . But in this respect also there is a particular resemblance between Free and Operative Masonry . As the one is superior to all other arts in point of magnitude , so the other exceeds any other sect oi