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A Speech
" ¦ when she was at peace , and turned her thoughts on building , that " she could accomplish so great works with such a prodig ious mul" titude of labourers . Besides that , in her climate , there was small " interruption of frost and winters , which make the northern workmen" lie half the year idle . I might mention , amongst the benefits of the * ' climate , what historians say of the earth , that'it sweated out a biwith
" tumenor natural kind of mortar , which is doubtless the same ' " that mentioned in Holy Writ , as contributing to the structure of . " Babel ; Slime they used instead of mortar . " In iEgypt we still see their pyramids , which answer to the de" scription that have been made of them ; and , I question not , but " a stranger mig ht find out some remains of the labyrinth that covered and had hundred les its
" a whole province , an temp disposed among " several quarters and divisions . " The wall of China is one of these eastern pieces of magnificence " which makes . a figure even in the map of the world ; although an " account of it would have been thought fabulous , were not the wall " itself extant '
. . ' . ' , " We are obliged to devotion for the noblest buildings that have '' adorned the several countries of the world . It is this which has " setmeri at work on temples , and public places of worship , not only " that they mig ht by the magnificence of the building invite the deity " to reside there , but that such stupendous works mig ht at the same " time open the mind to vast conceptions , and fit it to converse with
" the divinity of the place . " Thus far our author i and I am persuaded you have not thought me tedious in giving you so much of the works . of that great man instead of my own . From what he has said , the great antiquity of the art of building or masonry may be easily deduced ; for , without running ^ up to Setli's pillars or the Tower of Babel for proofs , the temple of Bablonof both which the learned
Belus alone , or the walls of y , Dr . . Prideaux has given ample accounts ,, which were built four thousand years ago , and above one thousand before the building of Solomon's temple , are sufficient testimonies , or at least give great reason to conjecture , that three parts in four of the whole earth mig ht then be favided into ffi 3 PjF € and SMB . ''
---Now , it is morally impossible but Geometry , that noble and useful science , ' must have begun and gone haiid-in-hand with Masonry ; for without it those stupendous and enormous structures could never have been erected . And though we have not the names of any great proficients so early as Babylon , yet we have a Pythagoras , an Euclid , an Archimedes , flourishing in very remote ages , whose works have which the learned
ever since been , and are at present , the basis on have built , at different times , so many noble superstructures . But I must not trespass too much on your patience , and shall , therefore , though unwillingly , pass over the building of Solomon ' s Temple , a building where God himself was the architect , and which to all Masons is so very particular , that it is almost unpardonable to neg lect it .
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" ¦ when she was at peace , and turned her thoughts on building , that " she could accomplish so great works with such a prodig ious mul" titude of labourers . Besides that , in her climate , there was small " interruption of frost and winters , which make the northern workmen" lie half the year idle . I might mention , amongst the benefits of the * ' climate , what historians say of the earth , that'it sweated out a biwith
" tumenor natural kind of mortar , which is doubtless the same ' " that mentioned in Holy Writ , as contributing to the structure of . " Babel ; Slime they used instead of mortar . " In iEgypt we still see their pyramids , which answer to the de" scription that have been made of them ; and , I question not , but " a stranger mig ht find out some remains of the labyrinth that covered and had hundred les its
" a whole province , an temp disposed among " several quarters and divisions . " The wall of China is one of these eastern pieces of magnificence " which makes . a figure even in the map of the world ; although an " account of it would have been thought fabulous , were not the wall " itself extant '
. . ' . ' , " We are obliged to devotion for the noblest buildings that have '' adorned the several countries of the world . It is this which has " setmeri at work on temples , and public places of worship , not only " that they mig ht by the magnificence of the building invite the deity " to reside there , but that such stupendous works mig ht at the same " time open the mind to vast conceptions , and fit it to converse with
" the divinity of the place . " Thus far our author i and I am persuaded you have not thought me tedious in giving you so much of the works . of that great man instead of my own . From what he has said , the great antiquity of the art of building or masonry may be easily deduced ; for , without running ^ up to Setli's pillars or the Tower of Babel for proofs , the temple of Bablonof both which the learned
Belus alone , or the walls of y , Dr . . Prideaux has given ample accounts ,, which were built four thousand years ago , and above one thousand before the building of Solomon's temple , are sufficient testimonies , or at least give great reason to conjecture , that three parts in four of the whole earth mig ht then be favided into ffi 3 PjF € and SMB . ''
---Now , it is morally impossible but Geometry , that noble and useful science , ' must have begun and gone haiid-in-hand with Masonry ; for without it those stupendous and enormous structures could never have been erected . And though we have not the names of any great proficients so early as Babylon , yet we have a Pythagoras , an Euclid , an Archimedes , flourishing in very remote ages , whose works have which the learned
ever since been , and are at present , the basis on have built , at different times , so many noble superstructures . But I must not trespass too much on your patience , and shall , therefore , though unwillingly , pass over the building of Solomon ' s Temple , a building where God himself was the architect , and which to all Masons is so very particular , that it is almost unpardonable to neg lect it .