The History of Freemasonry, Volume 3Masonic History Company, 1898 |
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Page 775 - Saracen works ; which were afterwards by them imitated in the West : and they refined upon it every day, as they proceeded in building churches. The Italians (among •which were yet some Greek refugees), and with them French, Germans, and Flemings, joined into a fraternity of architects ; procuring papal bulls for their encouragement, and particular privileges: they styled themselves freemasons, and ranged from one nation to another as they found churches to be built (for •very many in those ages...
Page 856 - ... we cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture to affirm, that every one of them writes and thinks much more justly than they did some time since.
Page 615 - ... the men made Masons must be " hail and sound, not deformed or dismembered at the time of their making." I say that this change was apparently made without authority, for in the subsequent editions of the Book of Constitutions, published after the death of Anderson, the language of the first edition was restored. Hence the present Grand Lodge of England does not require bodily perfection as a preliminary qualification for initiation.
Page 627 - Masonry be not dishonoured; and many such like that are commonly known; but some others they have (to which they are sworn, after their fashion) that none know but themselves...
Page 610 - THE OLD CONSTITUTIONS belonging to the ANCIENT AND HONOURABLE SOCIETY of FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS.
Page 876 - None shall discover Envy at the Prosperity of a Brother, nor supplant him, or put him out of his Work, if he be capable to finish the same; for no man can finish another's Work so much to the Lord's Profit, unless he be thoroughly acquainted with the Designs and Draughts of him that began it.
Page 617 - I, 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 859 - MAN is said to be a sociable animal, and, as an instance of it, we may observe, that we take all occasions and pretences of forming ourselves into those little nocturnal assemblies, which are commonly known by the name of clubs.
Page 677 - Medicine, with its age-old concern for the sick— the poor as well as the rich, the weak as well as the strong, has been an influence for good surpassed only by the moral precepts of religion.
Page 859 - ... and pretences of forming ourselves into those little nocturnal assemblies which are commonly known by the name of Clubs. When a set of men find themselves agree in any particular, though ever so trivial, they establish themselves into a kind of fraternity, and meet once or twice a week upon the account of such a fantastic resemblance.