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THK FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND CABINET OF UNIVERSAL LITERATURE .
FOR JUNE 1796 .
«»« iS $ ! iSI ^ EMBELLISHED WITH AN ENGRAVING OF THE SECRETARY'S JEWEL OF THE LODGE OF THE . NINE MUSES .
CONTENTS .
Page A friendly Remonstrance to a skilful but over-zealous Mason - 381 Honour and Generosity - - 38 4 Happiness : A Fragment - - 385 A Parable , addressed to Report Catchers - - - - 3 8 9 Extracts from the Memoirs of the Life and Writingsof Edward
Gibbon , Esq . continued from our last 390 Sketches of the Manners and Customs of the Norih-American Indians , concluded from our last 394 The Secrecy imposed on the Mysteries of Masonry , considered - - 399 Sunday Schools - - - 402 Origin of the Custom of making
Persons , suspected of Murder , touch the murdered Body , for the Discovery of their Guilt or Innocence 403 Ixcerpta et Collectanea : —Liberty of the Press . Gunpowder . Destruction of Learning . Conquest of France by the Allies . Clerical Sagacity - - 404
A recent remarkable Circumstance . which occurred in the Isle of Wight 406 Sketches of celebrated Characters : —Louis the Sixth . St . Thomas Aquinas . Seigneur de Beaumanoir . Gonsalvo , surnamed the Great . Cosmo de Medici . ' Lorenzo de Medicis . Roger Bacon .
Pag « Cardinal Wolsey - 407 Curious Facts - - - - 4 U Buonaparte , the French Commander in Italy - - - ' - - 414 Plistory of the Coinage of Money in England - - - - 41 } Description of the Abbey of Ein-( indlen - - - - 414
Review of New Publications - 415 Literature - 422 British Parliament - 423 Public Amusements - 43 $ Poetry : including a Masonic Song . Ode on his Majesty ' s Birth-day , by H . J . Pye , "Esq . ' Poe ' t Laureat . A Prophecy on the future Glory of
America . To Sleep . Sonnet to a Lady in a Quaker ' s Dress . Prologue and Epilogue to the Tragedy of Almeyda . Ode written in Autumn . Epitaph on a young married Couple , who died within a fefr hours of each other , and were buried in the same - 431
grave Masonic Intelligence - - 43 8 MONTHLY CHRONICLE . Foreign Intelligence - - 439 Domestic ditto - 440 New Titles - - , - - 44 ; Marriages . - 44 6 Obituary' - 447 Bankrupts _ . _ . _ , _ . 44 8
London:
LONDON :
PRINTED AN D . PUBLISHED BY GEORGE CAWTHORN , British Library , No . xy _\ , Strand ; AND SOLD EY STMONDS , PATERNOSTER-ROW ; and may be had of all the Booksellers and Newscarriers in Town and Country ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Ar00200
THK FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND CABINET OF UNIVERSAL LITERATURE .
FOR JUNE 1796 .
«»« iS $ ! iSI ^ EMBELLISHED WITH AN ENGRAVING OF THE SECRETARY'S JEWEL OF THE LODGE OF THE . NINE MUSES .
CONTENTS .
Page A friendly Remonstrance to a skilful but over-zealous Mason - 381 Honour and Generosity - - 38 4 Happiness : A Fragment - - 385 A Parable , addressed to Report Catchers - - - - 3 8 9 Extracts from the Memoirs of the Life and Writingsof Edward
Gibbon , Esq . continued from our last 390 Sketches of the Manners and Customs of the Norih-American Indians , concluded from our last 394 The Secrecy imposed on the Mysteries of Masonry , considered - - 399 Sunday Schools - - - 402 Origin of the Custom of making
Persons , suspected of Murder , touch the murdered Body , for the Discovery of their Guilt or Innocence 403 Ixcerpta et Collectanea : —Liberty of the Press . Gunpowder . Destruction of Learning . Conquest of France by the Allies . Clerical Sagacity - - 404
A recent remarkable Circumstance . which occurred in the Isle of Wight 406 Sketches of celebrated Characters : —Louis the Sixth . St . Thomas Aquinas . Seigneur de Beaumanoir . Gonsalvo , surnamed the Great . Cosmo de Medici . ' Lorenzo de Medicis . Roger Bacon .
Pag « Cardinal Wolsey - 407 Curious Facts - - - - 4 U Buonaparte , the French Commander in Italy - - - ' - - 414 Plistory of the Coinage of Money in England - - - - 41 } Description of the Abbey of Ein-( indlen - - - - 414
Review of New Publications - 415 Literature - 422 British Parliament - 423 Public Amusements - 43 $ Poetry : including a Masonic Song . Ode on his Majesty ' s Birth-day , by H . J . Pye , "Esq . ' Poe ' t Laureat . A Prophecy on the future Glory of
America . To Sleep . Sonnet to a Lady in a Quaker ' s Dress . Prologue and Epilogue to the Tragedy of Almeyda . Ode written in Autumn . Epitaph on a young married Couple , who died within a fefr hours of each other , and were buried in the same - 431
grave Masonic Intelligence - - 43 8 MONTHLY CHRONICLE . Foreign Intelligence - - 439 Domestic ditto - 440 New Titles - - , - - 44 ; Marriages . - 44 6 Obituary' - 447 Bankrupts _ . _ . _ , _ . 44 8
London:
LONDON :
PRINTED AN D . PUBLISHED BY GEORGE CAWTHORN , British Library , No . xy _\ , Strand ; AND SOLD EY STMONDS , PATERNOSTER-ROW ; and may be had of all the Booksellers and Newscarriers in Town and Country ,