The Freemason's Monthly Magazine, Volume 20

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Tuttle & Bennett., 1861
 

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Page 59 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Page 47 - Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Page 6 - That no person hereafter, who shall be accepted as a Freemason, shall be. admitted into any Lodge or Assembly, until he has brought a certificate of the time and place of his acceptation from the Lodge that accepted him, unto the Master of that limit or division where such Lodge is kept.
Page 19 - The good old strains your heart-strings thrill, And catch you by both ears ; And we, — O hate us if you can, For we are proud of you, — We like you, Brother Jonathan, And
Page 40 - Oh Plato! Plato! you have paved the way, With your confounded fantasies, to more Immoral conduct by the fancied sway Your system feigns o'er the controlless core Of human hearts, than all the long array Of poets and romancers : — You're a bore, A charlatan, a coxcomb — and have been, At best, no better than a go-between.
Page 19 - Ho ! Brother, I'ma Britisher, A chip of heart of oak That wouldn't warp or swerve or stir From what I thought or spoke, — And you — a blunt and honest man, Straightforward, kind, and true, I tell you, Brother Jonathan, That you're a Briton too. I know your heart, an...
Page 19 - Two dunces' mutual loss; Let us two bless where others ban, And love when others hate, And so, my cordial Jonathan, We'll fit, I calculate. What more ? I touch not holier strings A loftier strain to win, Nor glance at prophets, priests, and kings, Or heavenly kith or kin; As friend with friend, and man with man, O let our hearts be thus, As David's love to Jonathan, Be Jonathan's to us.
Page 3 - And he who in the strife expires Will add to theirs a name of fear That Tyranny shall quake to hear. And leave his sons a hope, a fame.
Page 19 - That you're a Briton too. I know your heart, an open heart, I read your mind and will, — A greyhound ever on the start To run for honour still ; And shrewd to scheme a likely plan, And stout to see it done, — I tell you, Brother Jonathan, That you and I are one...
Page 35 - The basis of the system (Buddhism) is a declaration of the eternity of matter, and its submission, at remote intervals, to decay and reformation ; but this and the organization of animal life are but the results of spontaneity and procession, not the products of will and design on the part of an allpowerful Creator.

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