 | Bernhard F. Scholz, Michael Bath, David W. Weston - Reference - 1990 - 242 pages
...late-eighteenth-century expounders who sought to raise Masonry to the status of, in the oft-quoted definition30, "a peculiar system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols". Notes These couplets conclude a 14-line piece of doggerel appended c. 1713 to the Stanley MS. of Freemasonry's... | |
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Freemasonry is a peculiar system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols. 
