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Explanation Of The Plate Representing A Companion Of The Ancient Knights Templars,
In the rio-ht hand of the . figure is a species of ensign , consisang of a staff on the top of-which is an . octagonal figure , surmounted with a Cross Patee . It will be needless here to speak iipon thermeanmg of the octagon , it being well known to every learned Companion . I well know , Mr . Editor , that every page , is of importance in your valuable work , and I am sorry to have intruded so far already ; butlvvill before conclude 1 he
yet add two or three more particulars , I . Octaa : on I have found to be affected in two buildings , erected by the Ancient Brothers : viz . The Temple Church in London and St . Sepulchre ' s at Northampton , a description of the latter . I shall most probably trouble you with in some future number * . _ The next reis not immediatelconnected with the present subject ; but some
mark y of your readers may be p leased to hear , that in an ancient illuminated missal , which was lately subjected to my inspection , I remarked several Emblems immediately derived from the Order of St .. John . — Lastly 1 will beg leave to recommend to such of your readers , as are already Companions of the Order , to read the Legend of the Rea Cross Knioht in ' Fairy " * and such of them as have not
- ' Spensers Queen ; thaUionour , who may wish to know something of the Order , will find therein as much information concerning it , as can be obtained from books . Wishing you and all our Brethren success in thenpublic undertakings , & c . I remain , fraternally , Your Obedient Servant ,
' L ONDON-, Sept . ' EDW . BOWLING * Jun .-,, g _ p . M . of the County Stewards Lodge , [¦ For further Accounts of the Knig hts Templars , we beg to refer our Readers to the < HISTORY OF THE RELIGIOUS AND MILITARY O RDER OF THE K NIGHTS T EMPLARS OF ST . J OHN OF J ERUSALEM , by lbs learned Dn . W ATKIKS , inserted in our Magazine , VOL . III . p . iS , 9 6 , 119 , 244 , 327 , 403 ; and VOL . IV . p . 91 , 297 * 37 J
On The Degenerate Manners Of The Athenians.
ON THE DEGENERATE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS .
OF all the Greek nations the Athenians were the most learned and ino-enious ; and it is remarked , I thinkbyPaterculus , that it seemed as if the souls of all the Grecians were enclosed within the confines of Attica although their bodies were spread over all the other parts of Greece It may be said to have been the land of philosophers , orascul and comediansbut there
tors poets , painters , musicians , ptors , ; , says ' Charpentier , we mig ht also have found impostors , liars , slanderers , envious men , idlers , and cheats .
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Explanation Of The Plate Representing A Companion Of The Ancient Knights Templars,
In the rio-ht hand of the . figure is a species of ensign , consisang of a staff on the top of-which is an . octagonal figure , surmounted with a Cross Patee . It will be needless here to speak iipon thermeanmg of the octagon , it being well known to every learned Companion . I well know , Mr . Editor , that every page , is of importance in your valuable work , and I am sorry to have intruded so far already ; butlvvill before conclude 1 he
yet add two or three more particulars , I . Octaa : on I have found to be affected in two buildings , erected by the Ancient Brothers : viz . The Temple Church in London and St . Sepulchre ' s at Northampton , a description of the latter . I shall most probably trouble you with in some future number * . _ The next reis not immediatelconnected with the present subject ; but some
mark y of your readers may be p leased to hear , that in an ancient illuminated missal , which was lately subjected to my inspection , I remarked several Emblems immediately derived from the Order of St .. John . — Lastly 1 will beg leave to recommend to such of your readers , as are already Companions of the Order , to read the Legend of the Rea Cross Knioht in ' Fairy " * and such of them as have not
- ' Spensers Queen ; thaUionour , who may wish to know something of the Order , will find therein as much information concerning it , as can be obtained from books . Wishing you and all our Brethren success in thenpublic undertakings , & c . I remain , fraternally , Your Obedient Servant ,
' L ONDON-, Sept . ' EDW . BOWLING * Jun .-,, g _ p . M . of the County Stewards Lodge , [¦ For further Accounts of the Knig hts Templars , we beg to refer our Readers to the < HISTORY OF THE RELIGIOUS AND MILITARY O RDER OF THE K NIGHTS T EMPLARS OF ST . J OHN OF J ERUSALEM , by lbs learned Dn . W ATKIKS , inserted in our Magazine , VOL . III . p . iS , 9 6 , 119 , 244 , 327 , 403 ; and VOL . IV . p . 91 , 297 * 37 J
On The Degenerate Manners Of The Athenians.
ON THE DEGENERATE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS .
OF all the Greek nations the Athenians were the most learned and ino-enious ; and it is remarked , I thinkbyPaterculus , that it seemed as if the souls of all the Grecians were enclosed within the confines of Attica although their bodies were spread over all the other parts of Greece It may be said to have been the land of philosophers , orascul and comediansbut there
tors poets , painters , musicians , ptors , ; , says ' Charpentier , we mig ht also have found impostors , liars , slanderers , envious men , idlers , and cheats .