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For The Freemasons' Magazine.
For the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
Mr . EDITOR , TTT has been remarked , that feeling hearts are rather scarce J |_ among the affluent and fashionable : this I deny , and with your good leave , I mean to present you with certain facts , which have lately come within my knowledge , and which bear a worthy testimony against an observation as illiberal , as
. unfounded . Persons in hig h life may be compared to spoiled children , whose infant minds are destroyed by indulgence . Subjects that may tend to check dissipation and extravagance , are carefully kept from them , for should a tale of woe reach the earofalady of quality , whose heart is composed of penetrable stuff , that lady might be induced to pull her stringsin order to soften the pangs of biting want
purse , and wasting calamity ; and thereby render it , somewhat too light for the card tables & c . of Lady *** or the Dutchess of * * * ; where fashion gives it ' s sanction to deception , and where female purity is yielded up to demands of honour . The vices of the unprincipled great , are so many sources of emoluments to a numerous and rapacious HERD of cringing
dependants . Thus even in our churches , at the court end of the town , the etiquette of mortals is observed more strictly than the service of the supreme . Some voluptuous member of our mother church ascends the pulpit , where he insults the sacred order / while he fattens upon the vanity by which he has been raised , and by which he still hopes to raise others . Full of self importance and future expectationhe delivers in languageflowery and unmeaninghis sentiments
, , , on scripture portions , in such soothing terms , that even vice itself might listen , and depart comforted and confirmed to it ' s bloated votaries . From your first number , Mr . Editor , I conclude your aim is to , " shoot FOLLY as it flies , " it is my wish to render you every assistance in . To begin then . Not many Sundays agoI
my power , rolled in the chariot of a wealthy relation from Hanover-Square to a well known chapel . On it ' s name and situation I must be silent ; since truth is a libel . When we were in our pew , my well-dressed , and polite cousin , attracted the marked attention of nearly the whole congregation ; while to the ladies he returned smile for smile , and to the
gentlemen bow for bow ; observing to me in a wmsper , that a church was as good a lounge as a theatre ; presently the reader took his stand , who , previous to entering upon his office , glanced a look towards his noble patron the Duke of **** , to whom he bowed in profound solemnity .
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For The Freemasons' Magazine.
For the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
Mr . EDITOR , TTT has been remarked , that feeling hearts are rather scarce J |_ among the affluent and fashionable : this I deny , and with your good leave , I mean to present you with certain facts , which have lately come within my knowledge , and which bear a worthy testimony against an observation as illiberal , as
. unfounded . Persons in hig h life may be compared to spoiled children , whose infant minds are destroyed by indulgence . Subjects that may tend to check dissipation and extravagance , are carefully kept from them , for should a tale of woe reach the earofalady of quality , whose heart is composed of penetrable stuff , that lady might be induced to pull her stringsin order to soften the pangs of biting want
purse , and wasting calamity ; and thereby render it , somewhat too light for the card tables & c . of Lady *** or the Dutchess of * * * ; where fashion gives it ' s sanction to deception , and where female purity is yielded up to demands of honour . The vices of the unprincipled great , are so many sources of emoluments to a numerous and rapacious HERD of cringing
dependants . Thus even in our churches , at the court end of the town , the etiquette of mortals is observed more strictly than the service of the supreme . Some voluptuous member of our mother church ascends the pulpit , where he insults the sacred order / while he fattens upon the vanity by which he has been raised , and by which he still hopes to raise others . Full of self importance and future expectationhe delivers in languageflowery and unmeaninghis sentiments
, , , on scripture portions , in such soothing terms , that even vice itself might listen , and depart comforted and confirmed to it ' s bloated votaries . From your first number , Mr . Editor , I conclude your aim is to , " shoot FOLLY as it flies , " it is my wish to render you every assistance in . To begin then . Not many Sundays agoI
my power , rolled in the chariot of a wealthy relation from Hanover-Square to a well known chapel . On it ' s name and situation I must be silent ; since truth is a libel . When we were in our pew , my well-dressed , and polite cousin , attracted the marked attention of nearly the whole congregation ; while to the ladies he returned smile for smile , and to the
gentlemen bow for bow ; observing to me in a wmsper , that a church was as good a lounge as a theatre ; presently the reader took his stand , who , previous to entering upon his office , glanced a look towards his noble patron the Duke of **** , to whom he bowed in profound solemnity .