The Use and Abuse of Free-masonry: A Work of the Greatest Utility to the Brethren of the Society, to Mankind in General, and to the Ladies in ParticularMasonic Pub. and Manufacturing Company, 1866 - 191 pages |
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Accepted Masons admitted æra ancient ANTIQUITY OF FREEMASONRY ANTISTROPHE Architect Asia assemblies attention beauty benevolence Berne bless brethren brother ceremonies charity constitution Courland craft dignity divine duke duty earl earl of Loudon Egypt Egyptians elected grand-master Electorate of Saxony endeavours established esteem favour flourish foundation stone fraternity Free and Accepted Free-masons friendship GEORGE OLIVER Germany glory grand master grand-lodge of England grand-master grand-officers greatest Half Morocco hall happy hath heart Hence hieroglyphic HISTORY AND ANTIQUITY holy honour Inigo Jones innocence institution justice king king of Prussia ladies laws Lisbon lodge Lord mankind manner Masonry masons mind moral Morocco mysteries noble oath obliged Osiris peace person pleasure present prince principles reason religion rix-dollars royal art sacred secrets serene highness shew solemn Solomon's temple sonry sovereign subjects symbols temple thee things Thomas Sandby tion universal virtue wisdom worthy
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Page 171 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Page 152 - Most Holy and Glorious Lord God, Thou Architect of heaven and earth, Who art the giver of all good gifts and graces, and hast promised that where two or three are gathered together in Thy Name, Thou wilt be in the midst of them...
Page 132 - By geometry we may curiously trace Nature through her various windings to her most concealed recesses. By it we may discover the power, the wisdom, and the goodness of the Grand Artificer of the universe, and view with delight the proportions which connect this vast machine.
Page 191 - Not soon provoked, she easily forgives; And much she suffers, as she much believes. Soft peace she brings wherever she arrives; She builds our quiet as she forms our lives; Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven.
Page 60 - HALLELUJAH, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. The kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
Page 77 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the Column, or the Arch to bend, To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot. But treat the Goddess like a modest fair, Nor over-dress, nor leave her wholly bare; Let not each beauty ev'ry where be spy'd, Where half the skill is decently to hide. He gains all points, who pleasingly confounds, Surprizes, varies, and conceals the Bounds. Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall;...
Page 146 - If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
Page 142 - How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots
Page 146 - I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
Page 71 - If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies ; And they are fools who roam : The world has nothing to bestow ; From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home.