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¦ Is t nothing , Sir Pepper , to have all the opera glasses levelled at one ?¦ To sit in my box , as on a throne , the unrivalled queen of Fopland ? Lord Mel . I must confess ,. Lady Bellair , you have an extensive dominion ; Fopland is a populous country . Lady B- Soit is , and what is still better , there is not an old man to , be found in it .
Sir P . Plin . I am sorry I am excluded from being one of your majesty ' s subjects ? Lady B . Out of regard to your gallantry , I will introduce a bill to naturalise you , Sir Pepper ; but , not to lose -the thread of my narrative , I must inform you , that I go once in the winter to an assembly , given by the wife of my hysician ; there all his pale convalescents
p stalk about like ghosts : Lord Mel . And to conclude the description ; tlie lemonade is inT tentionally made so acid that the doctoi is obliged to return all the visits of his company the next day . Sir P . Plin . Very good indeed . Lady B . You . perceive what a mortified life I am obliged to
. lead . Sir P . 'Plin . If your historic pencil has drawn a true resemblance , I inust confess a fashionable lad y is to me an incomprehensible being . ( Exempt ,
To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
SIR , IN turning over a late volume of the Archrsologia , a work calculated to illustrate local history , and to furnish amusing information to inquisitive minds , I was much surprised to find a gentleman , whose extensive knowledge and penetration 1 have frequently admired , descend so low as to throw out invectives against a whole society of
menma-, ny of them of the hig hest rank and estimation , in whose favour he is nevertheless obliged to admit a laving clause that will indeed , on due consideration , securely shelter them from his wanton obloquy . GovernorPownal , in his Observations on Gothic Architecture , fond oftheidea of having discovered the origin of Freemasonry in the corporations of artists employed by the Roman pontiff in the 12 th .
century , in various countries , to restoie decayed churches , censures the grant of exclusive privileges to them as an instance of ecclesiastical usurpation aud tyranny ; when , if he had considered the matter with unbiassed coolness and circumspection , he might have recollected , that in ages of feudal ' turbulence and barbarism , no . mechanical arts could ever have been exercisedif they had not been protected from
, lawless violence , and been nursed with that tenderness which their , first efforts required . About the time referred to , was , indeed , the . sera of municipal establishments for the promotion of trade , and for the association of those brotherhoods and fellowships that cultivated the .
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¦ Is t nothing , Sir Pepper , to have all the opera glasses levelled at one ?¦ To sit in my box , as on a throne , the unrivalled queen of Fopland ? Lord Mel . I must confess ,. Lady Bellair , you have an extensive dominion ; Fopland is a populous country . Lady B- Soit is , and what is still better , there is not an old man to , be found in it .
Sir P . Plin . I am sorry I am excluded from being one of your majesty ' s subjects ? Lady B . Out of regard to your gallantry , I will introduce a bill to naturalise you , Sir Pepper ; but , not to lose -the thread of my narrative , I must inform you , that I go once in the winter to an assembly , given by the wife of my hysician ; there all his pale convalescents
p stalk about like ghosts : Lord Mel . And to conclude the description ; tlie lemonade is inT tentionally made so acid that the doctoi is obliged to return all the visits of his company the next day . Sir P . Plin . Very good indeed . Lady B . You . perceive what a mortified life I am obliged to
. lead . Sir P . 'Plin . If your historic pencil has drawn a true resemblance , I inust confess a fashionable lad y is to me an incomprehensible being . ( Exempt ,
To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
SIR , IN turning over a late volume of the Archrsologia , a work calculated to illustrate local history , and to furnish amusing information to inquisitive minds , I was much surprised to find a gentleman , whose extensive knowledge and penetration 1 have frequently admired , descend so low as to throw out invectives against a whole society of
menma-, ny of them of the hig hest rank and estimation , in whose favour he is nevertheless obliged to admit a laving clause that will indeed , on due consideration , securely shelter them from his wanton obloquy . GovernorPownal , in his Observations on Gothic Architecture , fond oftheidea of having discovered the origin of Freemasonry in the corporations of artists employed by the Roman pontiff in the 12 th .
century , in various countries , to restoie decayed churches , censures the grant of exclusive privileges to them as an instance of ecclesiastical usurpation aud tyranny ; when , if he had considered the matter with unbiassed coolness and circumspection , he might have recollected , that in ages of feudal ' turbulence and barbarism , no . mechanical arts could ever have been exercisedif they had not been protected from
, lawless violence , and been nursed with that tenderness which their , first efforts required . About the time referred to , was , indeed , the . sera of municipal establishments for the promotion of trade , and for the association of those brotherhoods and fellowships that cultivated the .