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History Of Masonry.
Hyrcanus , who levelled the city and temple with the ground ; and compelled all the Iduniarans to conform to the law of Moses . Alter Nehemiah , the high-priest of Jerusalem was usuall y the provincial grand-master of Judea , as well under the Persians as the Greeks and Romans . Under Darius OchusMausohis king of Cariain Lesser Asia
, , , died ; which accident was rendered famous by the great grief which Artemisia , who was both his sister and his wife , expressed " at his loss . [ Before Christ 35 J . 3 Before she died , she took care for the erecting that famous monumentfor him at Halicarnassus , which was . reckoned the fifth of the seven wonders of the world ; and from whence all monuments , of more than ordinary magnificence , are called
mausoleums . It was in length , from north to south , sixty-three cubits , in circuit 411 feet , and in height 140 feet , surrounded with 136 columns of most admirable sculpture : and the fronts , east and west , had arches seventy-three feet wide , with a pyramid on the side wall , ending in a pointed broach , on which was a coacli with four horses of one marble stone . ¦ All was performed by the four best masons of the age , Scopas , Leochares ,. Timotheus , and Briax . ( To be continued . )
Dissertations On The Polite Arts. No. Iv.
DISSERTATIONS ON THE POLITE ARTS . No . IV .
OF TASTE . NATURE , having provided for all mankind , has distributed to every man in particular a portion of taste which determines him principally to certain objects . This she has done , by forming the organs in such a manner , as to bs attracted by one part of nature rather than by all . Well-formed souls have a general taste for
all that is natural , and at the same time have usually a master affection which attaches them to certain objects in particular . Let it be conceded to us then , that every one has his taste , provided it be for some part of nature . Some may admire the chearful , others the serious ; these love a conceit , and those what is grand and majestic & c . Such objects are in natureand increase each
, , others beauties by the contrast . There are some happy geniuses capable of embracing all : they admire the serious in a grave subject , and the comic in a facetious one ; they are equally prone to weep at a tragedy as to laugh at a comedy . There is an ideal perfection in Poetry , in Painting , and in all other . arts . The mind may conceive a work of nature quite
perfecten-, tirely without a fault , in the same manner as Plato has conceived his Republic , Xenophonhis Monarchy , and Cicero his Orator . As this idea mig ht be the fixt point of perfection , the value of all works might be judged b y their degree of similitude or unlikeness to this point .
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History Of Masonry.
Hyrcanus , who levelled the city and temple with the ground ; and compelled all the Iduniarans to conform to the law of Moses . Alter Nehemiah , the high-priest of Jerusalem was usuall y the provincial grand-master of Judea , as well under the Persians as the Greeks and Romans . Under Darius OchusMausohis king of Cariain Lesser Asia
, , , died ; which accident was rendered famous by the great grief which Artemisia , who was both his sister and his wife , expressed " at his loss . [ Before Christ 35 J . 3 Before she died , she took care for the erecting that famous monumentfor him at Halicarnassus , which was . reckoned the fifth of the seven wonders of the world ; and from whence all monuments , of more than ordinary magnificence , are called
mausoleums . It was in length , from north to south , sixty-three cubits , in circuit 411 feet , and in height 140 feet , surrounded with 136 columns of most admirable sculpture : and the fronts , east and west , had arches seventy-three feet wide , with a pyramid on the side wall , ending in a pointed broach , on which was a coacli with four horses of one marble stone . ¦ All was performed by the four best masons of the age , Scopas , Leochares ,. Timotheus , and Briax . ( To be continued . )
Dissertations On The Polite Arts. No. Iv.
DISSERTATIONS ON THE POLITE ARTS . No . IV .
OF TASTE . NATURE , having provided for all mankind , has distributed to every man in particular a portion of taste which determines him principally to certain objects . This she has done , by forming the organs in such a manner , as to bs attracted by one part of nature rather than by all . Well-formed souls have a general taste for
all that is natural , and at the same time have usually a master affection which attaches them to certain objects in particular . Let it be conceded to us then , that every one has his taste , provided it be for some part of nature . Some may admire the chearful , others the serious ; these love a conceit , and those what is grand and majestic & c . Such objects are in natureand increase each
, , others beauties by the contrast . There are some happy geniuses capable of embracing all : they admire the serious in a grave subject , and the comic in a facetious one ; they are equally prone to weep at a tragedy as to laugh at a comedy . There is an ideal perfection in Poetry , in Painting , and in all other . arts . The mind may conceive a work of nature quite
perfecten-, tirely without a fault , in the same manner as Plato has conceived his Republic , Xenophonhis Monarchy , and Cicero his Orator . As this idea mig ht be the fixt point of perfection , the value of all works might be judged b y their degree of similitude or unlikeness to this point .