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Essay On Friendship.

selves unable to pay the immensity of their debt , and their bankrupt hearts are taught a latent resentment at the hand that is stretched out with offers of service and relief . » - Plautinus was a man who thought that every good was to be bought from riches ; and as he was possessed of great wealth , and had a mind naturally formed for virtuehe resolved to gather a circle

, ofthe best men round him . Among the number of his dependants was Musidorus , with a mind just as fond of virtue , yet not less proud than his patron . His circumstances , however , were such as forced him to stoop to the good offices of his superior , and he saw himself daily among a number of others loaded with benefits and protestations of friendship . Thesein the usual course ofthe worldhe

, , thought it prudent to accept ; but , while he gave his esteem , he could not give his heart . A want of affection breaks out in the most trifling instances , and Plautinus had skill enough to observe the minutest actions of the man he wished to make his friend . In these he

ever found his aim disappointed ; for Musidorus claimed an exchange of hearts , which Plautinus , solicited by a variety of other claims , could never think of bestowing . It may be easily supposed , that the reserve of our poor proud man was soon construed into ingratitude ; and such indeed in the common acceptation ofthe world it was . Wherever Musidorus appeared , he was remarked as the ungrateful man ; he had accepted favours , it

was said , and stiil had the insolence to pietend to independence . The event , however , justified his conduct . Plautinus , by misplaced liberality , at length became poor , and it was then that Musidorus first thought of making a friend of him . He flew to the man of fallen fortune , with an offer of all he had ; wrought under his direction with assiduity ; and , by uniting their talents , both were at length placed in that state of life from which one of them had formerly fallen . '

To this story , taken from modern life , I shall add one more , taken from a Greek writer of antiquity : — " Two Jewish soldiers , in the time of Vespasian , had made many campaigns together , and a participation of danger at length bred an union of hearts . They were remarked throughout the whole army , as the two friendly brothers : they felt and fought for each other . Their friendship might have

continued without interruption ' . till death , had not the gocd fortune of the one alarmed the pride of the other , which was in his promotion to be a Centurion under the famous John , who headed a particular party of the Jewish malecontents . From this moment their fbrmer love was converted into the most inveterate enmity . They attached themselves to opposite factions , and . sought each other ' s lives in the

Conflict of adverse party . In this manner they continued for move than two years , vowing mutual revenge , and animated with an unconquerable spirit of aversion . At length , however , that party of the Jews to which the mean soldier belonged joined with the Romans , it became victorious , and drove John , with all his adherents , into the Temple . History has given us more than one picture of the dreadful conflagration of that superb edifice . The Roman soldiers were gathered round it ; the whole temple was in flames , and thousands were

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CONTENTS. Article 1
LONDON : Article 1
TO OUR READERS, CORRESPONDENTS, &c. Article 2
Untitled Article 2
PRICES OF BINDING PER VOLUME. Article 2
Untitled Article 3
MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM PERFECT, M. D. Article 4
SKETCH OF HIGH LIFE. Article 8
Untitled Article 9
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 11
THOUGHTS ON CALUMNY. Article 13
ANECDOTE OF SHENSTONE. Article 14
ESSAY ON FRIENDSHIP. Article 15
SPIRITED CONDUCT OF A MAYOR OF ARUNDEL. Article 17
ANECDOTE OF WILLIAM THE THIRD. Article 17
HISTORY OF MASONRY. Article 18
DISSERTATIONS ON THE POLITE ARTS. No. IV. Article 23
Untitled Article 25
LETTERS FROM BARON BIELFELD. Article 28
HISTORICAL ANECDOTES. Article 31
THE UNION OF LOVE TO GOD AND LOVE TO MAN: A MASONIC SERMON. Article 34
HISTORICAL ANECDOTES. Article 35
THE UNION OF LOVE TO GOD AND LOVE TO MAN:-A MASONIC SERMON. Article 38
AN ADDRESS TO THE MASON BRETHREN*. Article 42
THE STAGE. Article 46
AN IMPROPRIETY IN THE CHARACTER OF OTHELLO, MOOR OF VENICE. Article 47
ORIENTAL APOLOGUES. Article 48
RIDICULOUS CUSTOMS AND SUPERSTITIONS IN DIFFERENT NATIONS. Article 54
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 55
REMARKS ON THE DURATION OF LIFE IN MEN AND ANIMALS. Article 57
ANECDOTE OF JAMES THE FIRST. Article 59
THE MAN OF GENIUS. Article 60
DESCRIPTION OF LONDON , Article 62
ANECDOTE OF THE CELEBRATED DR. STUKELEY. Article 63
ANECDOTE OF THE LATE ALDERMAN BECKFORD. Article 63
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 64
POETRY. Article 65
STANZAS ON MASONRY. Article 66
ON VIEWING A SKELETON, Article 67
EPITAPH Article 68
EPITAPH Article 68
EPITAPH TO THE MEMORY OF COLLINS THE POET. Article 69
THE ENGLISH JUSTICE. Article 69
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 70
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 70
HOME NEWS. Article 73
HOME NEWS. Article 77
MARRIAGES. Article 81
DEATHS. Article 81
BANKRUPTS. Article 81
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Essay On Friendship.

selves unable to pay the immensity of their debt , and their bankrupt hearts are taught a latent resentment at the hand that is stretched out with offers of service and relief . » - Plautinus was a man who thought that every good was to be bought from riches ; and as he was possessed of great wealth , and had a mind naturally formed for virtuehe resolved to gather a circle

, ofthe best men round him . Among the number of his dependants was Musidorus , with a mind just as fond of virtue , yet not less proud than his patron . His circumstances , however , were such as forced him to stoop to the good offices of his superior , and he saw himself daily among a number of others loaded with benefits and protestations of friendship . Thesein the usual course ofthe worldhe

, , thought it prudent to accept ; but , while he gave his esteem , he could not give his heart . A want of affection breaks out in the most trifling instances , and Plautinus had skill enough to observe the minutest actions of the man he wished to make his friend . In these he

ever found his aim disappointed ; for Musidorus claimed an exchange of hearts , which Plautinus , solicited by a variety of other claims , could never think of bestowing . It may be easily supposed , that the reserve of our poor proud man was soon construed into ingratitude ; and such indeed in the common acceptation ofthe world it was . Wherever Musidorus appeared , he was remarked as the ungrateful man ; he had accepted favours , it

was said , and stiil had the insolence to pietend to independence . The event , however , justified his conduct . Plautinus , by misplaced liberality , at length became poor , and it was then that Musidorus first thought of making a friend of him . He flew to the man of fallen fortune , with an offer of all he had ; wrought under his direction with assiduity ; and , by uniting their talents , both were at length placed in that state of life from which one of them had formerly fallen . '

To this story , taken from modern life , I shall add one more , taken from a Greek writer of antiquity : — " Two Jewish soldiers , in the time of Vespasian , had made many campaigns together , and a participation of danger at length bred an union of hearts . They were remarked throughout the whole army , as the two friendly brothers : they felt and fought for each other . Their friendship might have

continued without interruption ' . till death , had not the gocd fortune of the one alarmed the pride of the other , which was in his promotion to be a Centurion under the famous John , who headed a particular party of the Jewish malecontents . From this moment their fbrmer love was converted into the most inveterate enmity . They attached themselves to opposite factions , and . sought each other ' s lives in the

Conflict of adverse party . In this manner they continued for move than two years , vowing mutual revenge , and animated with an unconquerable spirit of aversion . At length , however , that party of the Jews to which the mean soldier belonged joined with the Romans , it became victorious , and drove John , with all his adherents , into the Temple . History has given us more than one picture of the dreadful conflagration of that superb edifice . The Roman soldiers were gathered round it ; the whole temple was in flames , and thousands were

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