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Article For the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. ← Page 2 of 3 →
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For The Freemasons' Magazine.
The sermon was to be preached by a gentleman who had lately been presented to a considerable living , in the gift of S . W * * * , a member of the British Senate , well known to set a proper value on his parliamentary abilities , Alas ! my good friend , a clerical fop is now' become so common an animal , that I need only say our preacher fully answered the description . His discourse , calculated rather to delude and soften conscience than to rouse itI took
, down in short hand , audi wish you to present your readers with the following specimen of his manner . " I should be extremely sorry , noble and polite hearers , either to give offence or be guilty of a crime against good breeding , but really having the honour to speak before this brilliant assembly , my duty calls upon me to assure my much valued hearers that they are
wandering through a delightful labyrinth of flowers ; fair to the eye , hut whose fascinating perfumes is charged with mental poison . Let your preacher , 1 . pray you , my amiable , my erring friends warn you of danger : for the delectable path wherein you now wander irj elegant ease , attended by the graces , leads to those mournful shades , which vulgar teachers miht nameto less delicatebut to
g , organs ; their obscure and common audiences , composed of the general herd , I leave them : well aware , that , in this refined temple , where it is my boast and pride to appear among }^ on , even to mention words shocking to the sense , would render me highly culpable in the opinion of the great world , whose good will I prize as fine gold , and whose censure I trust I shall never incur , "
In . this soothing and well bred stile did our clerical lily male , our holy trifter proceed . While with . a sigh for the frivolity of the tribe of fashion , who to the disgrace of all they should hold sacred , daringly profane the temples of their God , I sat an unwilling heaver , ' till his discourse was finished : when raising his snow white handin order to display a ring of valueand fine lustre
, , ; while the other pressing a cambrick handkerchief , rested on the gold-fringed velvet , he uttered a short prayer , of a piece with his sermon , and descended from the pulpit , which he had occupiedabout ten minutes .
A gay and thoughtless circle instantly surrounded him . To a painted dowager , at the wrong end of her seventh stage , he appeared to pay much court . " Well , Sir , says the toothless dame , we all admire your discourse , and for my part I purtesttlvat tedious wretch , we have of late been bored with , is unsufferable . Would you think it , the other perishing Sunday , he kept us freezing for a whole half hourby Lord **** # ' $ repeater—now dear was not
, , , my parson , that shameful ; and then he told us we should go to some filthy place , if we did not fee ] for the poor ; nay , the abominable brute even told us that the vulgar , in a religious sense , were equal to us ' . —did you ever hear the like . " This speech was approved by the circle , which broke up with great ceremony , while the priest handed the antiquated fair one to her carriage , dignified with the badges of
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
For The Freemasons' Magazine.
The sermon was to be preached by a gentleman who had lately been presented to a considerable living , in the gift of S . W * * * , a member of the British Senate , well known to set a proper value on his parliamentary abilities , Alas ! my good friend , a clerical fop is now' become so common an animal , that I need only say our preacher fully answered the description . His discourse , calculated rather to delude and soften conscience than to rouse itI took
, down in short hand , audi wish you to present your readers with the following specimen of his manner . " I should be extremely sorry , noble and polite hearers , either to give offence or be guilty of a crime against good breeding , but really having the honour to speak before this brilliant assembly , my duty calls upon me to assure my much valued hearers that they are
wandering through a delightful labyrinth of flowers ; fair to the eye , hut whose fascinating perfumes is charged with mental poison . Let your preacher , 1 . pray you , my amiable , my erring friends warn you of danger : for the delectable path wherein you now wander irj elegant ease , attended by the graces , leads to those mournful shades , which vulgar teachers miht nameto less delicatebut to
g , organs ; their obscure and common audiences , composed of the general herd , I leave them : well aware , that , in this refined temple , where it is my boast and pride to appear among }^ on , even to mention words shocking to the sense , would render me highly culpable in the opinion of the great world , whose good will I prize as fine gold , and whose censure I trust I shall never incur , "
In . this soothing and well bred stile did our clerical lily male , our holy trifter proceed . While with . a sigh for the frivolity of the tribe of fashion , who to the disgrace of all they should hold sacred , daringly profane the temples of their God , I sat an unwilling heaver , ' till his discourse was finished : when raising his snow white handin order to display a ring of valueand fine lustre
, , ; while the other pressing a cambrick handkerchief , rested on the gold-fringed velvet , he uttered a short prayer , of a piece with his sermon , and descended from the pulpit , which he had occupiedabout ten minutes .
A gay and thoughtless circle instantly surrounded him . To a painted dowager , at the wrong end of her seventh stage , he appeared to pay much court . " Well , Sir , says the toothless dame , we all admire your discourse , and for my part I purtesttlvat tedious wretch , we have of late been bored with , is unsufferable . Would you think it , the other perishing Sunday , he kept us freezing for a whole half hourby Lord **** # ' $ repeater—now dear was not
, , , my parson , that shameful ; and then he told us we should go to some filthy place , if we did not fee ] for the poor ; nay , the abominable brute even told us that the vulgar , in a religious sense , were equal to us ' . —did you ever hear the like . " This speech was approved by the circle , which broke up with great ceremony , while the priest handed the antiquated fair one to her carriage , dignified with the badges of