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History Of Masonry.
fixed the total departure of arts and learning from Italy and the west ; the Augustan stile , with all its improvements ; the craft of masonry , and the harmony of the lodges being subverted by Gothic ignorance , and forgotten ! [ A . D . 547 . ] . Justinian collected the body ofthe civil law , or Codex Justhiianus , which , by the judgment and industry of Trebonian , and other coadjutorswas digested into the form we now have it : he also expended
, •thirty-four millions of gold ; in rebuilding the church of St . Sophia , which he intended should equal , if not excel , the temple of Solomon ; but in vain . [ A . D . 560 . ] This emperor is reported to have caused •the eyes of Belisarius to be put out j on a charge of being engaged in a conspiracy against him : and it is added , that the old . veteran general wasafterward forced to beg at the great ' . gateofSt . Sophia , Date obolum
, Bdisario , qiieni virtus extulit , invidia dcpressit . * ¦ Many . great and -noble actions were performed ; by Justinian ; . but all of them would ¦ not atone for his iflgratittide . to . so : worthy a man , if the . fact be true ; but there is some consolation in . finding authors who dispute the : wbrst circumstances . of tiie story . ¦ •.: ; ' .. j ¦¦¦ . ¦' . ¦ ¦ : ; ....... , : ; :. From this period , the . sciences and arts began to decline apacein . the east ,: as weh ' avesah-e ' adyobserVed . the . y had donesin the west . •Bloody persecutions and , wars were . for several ages carried on ; most
of the emperors being murdered by their successors ; with millions of other , brutal ! actions that degraded' and disgraced the Christian name : their wickedness did not , Iiowevery go unchastised ; for the Mahometans •)•: now" began to : be .. ; very powerful , andseveiy where triumphed over their wretched . and . wicked opponents . ; . overthrowing , with fire ,-and sword alltlie . monuments of art in their , way . Eveiy thing'that had . the least of eleganceor of . being dedicated
appearance , to learned tises ,.. was' doomed : to immediate destruction : so that arts and : sciences , with the ' . craft of ' masonry ,- , now suffered more in Asia and Africa . than at any period , of time ; before ; , and . the . Augustan stile sin , the- east : is' thereby , in all probability , buried for ever in oblivion . [ A . D . 7 . 10 . 3 Is ¦ ¦ ¦' ¦ ¦ ¦ . , ¦ ...:. ' . ' .: When the Goths , and those whom they conquered ' , began-. to affect
statelysbuildings , their architecture , ; which probably they had but at second hand from : the Arabs audi Moors , was so coarse , that the greatest of . their architects knew , nothing of just designing : they wanted . bothyheads and . hands to imitate the ancients ; , nor could they do it for many ages . Yet , neither wanting wealth nor . ambition , they . did : their best . ; , and ! so the more ingenious gradually drew , together in . societies or lodges , in imitation ofthe ancients , according to remaining : traditions not quite obliterated ; and cultivated a stile of their own , called . the Gothic . ¦•
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
History Of Masonry.
fixed the total departure of arts and learning from Italy and the west ; the Augustan stile , with all its improvements ; the craft of masonry , and the harmony of the lodges being subverted by Gothic ignorance , and forgotten ! [ A . D . 547 . ] . Justinian collected the body ofthe civil law , or Codex Justhiianus , which , by the judgment and industry of Trebonian , and other coadjutorswas digested into the form we now have it : he also expended
, •thirty-four millions of gold ; in rebuilding the church of St . Sophia , which he intended should equal , if not excel , the temple of Solomon ; but in vain . [ A . D . 560 . ] This emperor is reported to have caused •the eyes of Belisarius to be put out j on a charge of being engaged in a conspiracy against him : and it is added , that the old . veteran general wasafterward forced to beg at the great ' . gateofSt . Sophia , Date obolum
, Bdisario , qiieni virtus extulit , invidia dcpressit . * ¦ Many . great and -noble actions were performed ; by Justinian ; . but all of them would ¦ not atone for his iflgratittide . to . so : worthy a man , if the . fact be true ; but there is some consolation in . finding authors who dispute the : wbrst circumstances . of tiie story . ¦ •.: ; ' .. j ¦¦¦ . ¦' . ¦ ¦ : ; ....... , : ; :. From this period , the . sciences and arts began to decline apacein . the east ,: as weh ' avesah-e ' adyobserVed . the . y had donesin the west . •Bloody persecutions and , wars were . for several ages carried on ; most
of the emperors being murdered by their successors ; with millions of other , brutal ! actions that degraded' and disgraced the Christian name : their wickedness did not , Iiowevery go unchastised ; for the Mahometans •)•: now" began to : be .. ; very powerful , andseveiy where triumphed over their wretched . and . wicked opponents . ; . overthrowing , with fire ,-and sword alltlie . monuments of art in their , way . Eveiy thing'that had . the least of eleganceor of . being dedicated
appearance , to learned tises ,.. was' doomed : to immediate destruction : so that arts and : sciences , with the ' . craft of ' masonry ,- , now suffered more in Asia and Africa . than at any period , of time ; before ; , and . the . Augustan stile sin , the- east : is' thereby , in all probability , buried for ever in oblivion . [ A . D . 7 . 10 . 3 Is ¦ ¦ ¦' ¦ ¦ ¦ . , ¦ ...:. ' . ' .: When the Goths , and those whom they conquered ' , began-. to affect
statelysbuildings , their architecture , ; which probably they had but at second hand from : the Arabs audi Moors , was so coarse , that the greatest of . their architects knew , nothing of just designing : they wanted . bothyheads and . hands to imitate the ancients ; , nor could they do it for many ages . Yet , neither wanting wealth nor . ambition , they . did : their best . ; , and ! so the more ingenious gradually drew , together in . societies or lodges , in imitation ofthe ancients , according to remaining : traditions not quite obliterated ; and cultivated a stile of their own , called . the Gothic . ¦•