-
Articles/Ads
Article THE CARDINAL VIRTUES. Page 1 of 6 →
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Cardinal Virtues.
THE CARDINAL VIRTUES .
BY BEO . W . HAEKY EYLANDS , F . S . A . A PARAGRAPH with the above title , that appeared in the Freemason some months ago , suggested the idea of looking up what our forefathers thought with regard to these essentials of Masonry . From them all other virtues proceed , as John Bossewell says , " as out of a fountaine . " One
of them without the other is not complete , but they hinge together so as to form a quartette of perfection . Workes of Armorie , etc ., collected and gathered b y John Bossewell , Gentleman . London , 4 to ., Bl . Let ., 1597 , ( fol . 4-8 ) . Degrees of Rulers . Gentleman , Esquire , Knight , Baron , Lorde , Earle , Marques , Duke , and Prince . To these degrees aforesayd , no man can
worthely atteine , but by the fower Cardinall vertues , which are Prudence , Justice , Fortitude , §• Temperance . For the knowledge whereof , and what they be , let euerie gentleman diligently read oner , the three bookes of Tnlly his Offices : and in especially the first booke , wherein he most excellently ( as the father of
all eloquence ) describeth the sayd foure vertues , and the braunches that spring out of the same . Notwithstanding I shall briefely declare the definition and efficacie thereof , as the gentle reader may partely bo satisfied , at the first sight .
The first thereof of the said foure vertues called Prudence , Tullie defineth to be rurum expeledanvm fugiendarumque scientia , that is to saye , the knowledge of things , which ought to be desired and folowed : & also of them , which 2 A
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Cardinal Virtues.
THE CARDINAL VIRTUES .
BY BEO . W . HAEKY EYLANDS , F . S . A . A PARAGRAPH with the above title , that appeared in the Freemason some months ago , suggested the idea of looking up what our forefathers thought with regard to these essentials of Masonry . From them all other virtues proceed , as John Bossewell says , " as out of a fountaine . " One
of them without the other is not complete , but they hinge together so as to form a quartette of perfection . Workes of Armorie , etc ., collected and gathered b y John Bossewell , Gentleman . London , 4 to ., Bl . Let ., 1597 , ( fol . 4-8 ) . Degrees of Rulers . Gentleman , Esquire , Knight , Baron , Lorde , Earle , Marques , Duke , and Prince . To these degrees aforesayd , no man can
worthely atteine , but by the fower Cardinall vertues , which are Prudence , Justice , Fortitude , §• Temperance . For the knowledge whereof , and what they be , let euerie gentleman diligently read oner , the three bookes of Tnlly his Offices : and in especially the first booke , wherein he most excellently ( as the father of
all eloquence ) describeth the sayd foure vertues , and the braunches that spring out of the same . Notwithstanding I shall briefely declare the definition and efficacie thereof , as the gentle reader may partely bo satisfied , at the first sight .
The first thereof of the said foure vertues called Prudence , Tullie defineth to be rurum expeledanvm fugiendarumque scientia , that is to saye , the knowledge of things , which ought to be desired and folowed : & also of them , which 2 A