Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine

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Bro. G. Routledge & Company, 1846 - Freemasonry

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Page 36 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles : half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head : The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yond tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight : the murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more; Lest my brain...
Page 233 - And have ye not read this Scripture ; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner...
Page 14 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 400 - But though in Ancient Times Masons were charged in every Country to be of the Religion of that Country, or Nation, whatever it was. Yet it is now thought more expedient only to oblige them to that Religion in which all Men agree, leaving their particular opinions to themselves...
Page 265 - The men made Masons must be free-born, (or no bondmen,) of mature age and of good report, hale and sound, not deformed or dismembered at the time of their making.
Page 459 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the Prophets.
Page 456 - Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family.
Page 334 - And Moses did as the Lord commanded him: and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation: and he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.
Page 400 - Therefore, no private piques or quarrels must be brought within the door of the Lodge, far less any quarrels about religion or nations or State policy.
Page 283 - Not the world, or the things of the world : for he is 'crucified to the world, and the world crucified to him'. He is crucified to 'the desire of the flesh; the desire of the eye, and the pride of life'.

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