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which must bear its appearance , and supply its place :- for this reason mankind have been forced to invent an artificial kind of humanity , which , as a great author has defin'd , is called Good Breeding . But when both these have their foundations sapped by an- inundation of liquor , ruin and desolation will undermine and lay waste that glorious seat of Reasonwhich the Divine Architect has , above all others ,
ho-, noured the human constitution with . The most ingenious author that ever lived has made a pretty observation on the different humours that drink produces in an English society . He says they proceed from the different mixtures of foreign blood that circulates in us . " We sit down , indeed , " says he , " all
" friends , acquaintance , and neighbours ; but after two bottles , you " see a Dane -start up , and swears the kingdom is his own ; a Saxon " drinks up the whole quart , and swears he will dispute that with " him ; a Norman tells them both he will assert his liberty ; and a " Welshman cries , they are all foreigners and intruders of yesterday , " and beats them all out of the room . Such accidents , " adds our author , " frequently happen amongst neighbours , children , and
*' ¦ cousin-germans . " I wish I could not say that I have sometimes observed it in our own most amicable Brotherhood of Freemasons . But so many better heads and peris have been employed on this subject , that it would be too presuming in me to take up more of your time about it . I shall proceed , therefore , as I proposed , to speak of this OUR MOST ANCIENT AND MOST HONOURABLE SOCIETY in particular .
And here , my Brethren , so vast and spacious a foundation is marked out for one of the noblest superstructures that wit can invent and rhetoric adorn , that , were the design drawn and executed by a masterly genius , with all the necessary oratorical decorations proper for so sublime a subject , we might safely say with the poet , —Quod nee Jovis ira , non ignis , ¦
Nee poterit ferrum , nee edax abolere vetustas . But as I am verily persuaded that you neither expect to hear a Cicero , a Demosthenes , or even—a Henly , in me ; so 1 may hope your candour and humanity will" pardon my temerity , where the loftiness of the text must inevitably shew the insufficiency of the preacher . [ To be concluded in our next . ' ]
John Coustos, For Freemasonry,
JOHN COUSTOS , FOR FREEMASONRY ,
CONTINUATION OF THE SUFFERINGS OF
IN THE INQUISITION AT LISBON .
( Continuedfrom-Page z $ z . ) NOTWITHSTANDING the repeated declarations made by me , that I would never change my relig ion , the Inquisitors were as urgent as ever . Encouraged by the apostacy of one of my brother Masons , they flattered themselves with the hopes of prevailing upon me to imitate him ; and for this purpose offered to send some English S S 7 ,
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which must bear its appearance , and supply its place :- for this reason mankind have been forced to invent an artificial kind of humanity , which , as a great author has defin'd , is called Good Breeding . But when both these have their foundations sapped by an- inundation of liquor , ruin and desolation will undermine and lay waste that glorious seat of Reasonwhich the Divine Architect has , above all others ,
ho-, noured the human constitution with . The most ingenious author that ever lived has made a pretty observation on the different humours that drink produces in an English society . He says they proceed from the different mixtures of foreign blood that circulates in us . " We sit down , indeed , " says he , " all
" friends , acquaintance , and neighbours ; but after two bottles , you " see a Dane -start up , and swears the kingdom is his own ; a Saxon " drinks up the whole quart , and swears he will dispute that with " him ; a Norman tells them both he will assert his liberty ; and a " Welshman cries , they are all foreigners and intruders of yesterday , " and beats them all out of the room . Such accidents , " adds our author , " frequently happen amongst neighbours , children , and
*' ¦ cousin-germans . " I wish I could not say that I have sometimes observed it in our own most amicable Brotherhood of Freemasons . But so many better heads and peris have been employed on this subject , that it would be too presuming in me to take up more of your time about it . I shall proceed , therefore , as I proposed , to speak of this OUR MOST ANCIENT AND MOST HONOURABLE SOCIETY in particular .
And here , my Brethren , so vast and spacious a foundation is marked out for one of the noblest superstructures that wit can invent and rhetoric adorn , that , were the design drawn and executed by a masterly genius , with all the necessary oratorical decorations proper for so sublime a subject , we might safely say with the poet , —Quod nee Jovis ira , non ignis , ¦
Nee poterit ferrum , nee edax abolere vetustas . But as I am verily persuaded that you neither expect to hear a Cicero , a Demosthenes , or even—a Henly , in me ; so 1 may hope your candour and humanity will" pardon my temerity , where the loftiness of the text must inevitably shew the insufficiency of the preacher . [ To be concluded in our next . ' ]
John Coustos, For Freemasonry,
JOHN COUSTOS , FOR FREEMASONRY ,
CONTINUATION OF THE SUFFERINGS OF
IN THE INQUISITION AT LISBON .
( Continuedfrom-Page z $ z . ) NOTWITHSTANDING the repeated declarations made by me , that I would never change my relig ion , the Inquisitors were as urgent as ever . Encouraged by the apostacy of one of my brother Masons , they flattered themselves with the hopes of prevailing upon me to imitate him ; and for this purpose offered to send some English S S 7 ,