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History Of Masonry.

as at Sicyon , Athens , Corinth , and the cities of Ionia , till they perfected their beautiful Doric , Ionic , and Corinthian orders . From this time we date the strict union between the Free and the Accepted Masons , which has subsisted ever since in all regular lodges , Greece now . abounded with the best architects , sculptors , statuaries , painters , and other fine designers , most of them educated at the academies of Athens and Sicyon . who instructed many artistsand

fel-, low crafts , to be the best operators upon earth : so that the nations of Asia and Africa , who had taught the Greeks , were now taught by them . No country but Greece could now boast of-such men as Mycon , Phidias , Demon , Androcides , Meton , Anaxagoras , Dipaenus and Scyllis , Glycon , Alcamehes , Praxiteles , Polycletus , Lysippus , Pefietis , Euphronor , Perseus , Philosfratus , Zeuxis , Apoilodorus ,

Parrhasius , Timanthes , Eupompus , Pamphihis , Apelies , Artemones , Socrates , Eudoxus , Metrodorus , who wrote of Masonry , and the excellent Theodorus Cyremeus , who amplified geometry , and published the art analytic , the master of the divine Plato , from whose school came Zenocrates , and Aristotle the preceptor of Alexander the Grear ' The Greeks rightly judging that the proportions in architecture should be taken from those of the human body , their painters and statuaries were esteemed architects : nor could they have been fine

painters without being architects . Hence it is , that several of those excellent painters and philosophers are in the list of antient architect ' s : nav , they all openly taught geometry , ancl many of them practised Masonry . They were generally at the head of the fraternity , highly useful to the fellow crafts , by their designs and drawings , and bred them up able artists : only , by a law in Greece , no slave was allowed to learn the seven liberal sciences , or those of the free-born ; so that

in Greece also they were called Free Masons , and , in their many lodges , the noble and learned were accepted as brothers . ' [ . Before "Christ 334 . _] Alexander , king of Macedon , having overcome Darius Codomanus at the Granicus , and in the battles of Issus andArbela , taking Tyre and Gaza , soon overrun all Egypt ; poor Darius fled into Bactria , and was murdered by Bessus , one of his own

Generals . After a continuance of 207 years , in him ended the Persian , and in Alexander began the Grecian empire . In one of Alexander ' s drunken frolics , he burnt the rich ancl splendid city of Perse-. jpolis , which was truly a city of palates in ' the best stile ; but all its beauty and splendour could not preserve it from the licentious ravages of this insolent disturber and common enemy of the Human race ; / who , however dignified by the epithet of Great , will not be allowed to rank in the list of true Masons .

" [ Before Christ 332 / 3 Nevertheless his architect , the renowned Denocrates before-mentioned , prevailed with him to undertake some Wand design , and to encourage the Fraternity : he proposed to him to dispose Mount Athos into ti-e form of that prince ' s statue , with a city in one hand , and iti the other a large lake to water that city ; but this great design never' took effect . The ambition o'f Alexander prompted him to build a new city in Egypt , in a very convenient place over-against the island of Pharos , which he called Alexandria , and which became the capital of that kingdom .

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PRICES OF BINDING PER VOLUME. Article 2
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SOME ACCOUNT OF MR. BAKEWELL, OF DISHLEY. Article 4
ON THE ERRORS OF COMMON OPINION. Article 6
THE HAPPY WORLD. A VISION. Article 10
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 13
DETACHED THOUGHTS ONBOOKS. Article 15
HISTORY OF MASONRY. Article 18
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 25
ANECDOTE. Article 25
THE STAGE. Article 26
REMARKS ON GENERAL INVITATIONS. Article 27
AMERICAN ANECDOTES. Article 28
TO THE EDITOR. Article 31
ON THE LOVE OF NOVELTY. Article 34
ON THE DIFFERENT MODES OF REASONING Article 36
THE CHARACTER OF WALLER, AS A MAN AND A POET. Article 39
A METHOD OF ENCREASING POTATOES, Article 41
NEW SOUTH WALES, Article 42
TO THE EDITOR. Article 44
LIFE OF THE DUKE OF GUISE. Article 47
SINGULAR INSTANCE OF FACILITY IN LITERARY COMPOSITION. Article 48
A SWEDISH ANECDOTE. Article 49
ACCOUNT OF THOMAS TOPHAM, THE STRONG MAN. Article 50
SPEECH OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, ON MONOPOLIES. Article 51
DIRECTIONS AND OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE TO FOOD. Article 52
TO THE EDITOR. Article 54
THE WORM AND BUTTERFLY. Article 56
Untitled Article 57
ANECDOTE. Article 57
THE SENSITIVE PLANT AND THISTLE. A FABLE. Article 58
FRENCH ARROGANCE PROPERLY REBUKED. Article 58
A CAUTION TO THE AVARICIOUS. Article 58
A WELL-TIMED REBUKE. Article 59
NAVAL ANECDOTE. Article 59
TO THE EDITOR. Article 59
POETRY. Article 60
IMPROMPTU, Article 60
THE SUNDERLAND VOLUNTEERS. Article 61
IMPROMPTU, Article 61
MONSIEUR. TONSON. A TALE. Article 62
SONNET. Article 65
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 65
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 66
HOME NEWS, Article 67
PROMOTIONS. Article 72
Untitled Article 72
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BANKRUPTS. Article 73
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History Of Masonry.

as at Sicyon , Athens , Corinth , and the cities of Ionia , till they perfected their beautiful Doric , Ionic , and Corinthian orders . From this time we date the strict union between the Free and the Accepted Masons , which has subsisted ever since in all regular lodges , Greece now . abounded with the best architects , sculptors , statuaries , painters , and other fine designers , most of them educated at the academies of Athens and Sicyon . who instructed many artistsand

fel-, low crafts , to be the best operators upon earth : so that the nations of Asia and Africa , who had taught the Greeks , were now taught by them . No country but Greece could now boast of-such men as Mycon , Phidias , Demon , Androcides , Meton , Anaxagoras , Dipaenus and Scyllis , Glycon , Alcamehes , Praxiteles , Polycletus , Lysippus , Pefietis , Euphronor , Perseus , Philosfratus , Zeuxis , Apoilodorus ,

Parrhasius , Timanthes , Eupompus , Pamphihis , Apelies , Artemones , Socrates , Eudoxus , Metrodorus , who wrote of Masonry , and the excellent Theodorus Cyremeus , who amplified geometry , and published the art analytic , the master of the divine Plato , from whose school came Zenocrates , and Aristotle the preceptor of Alexander the Grear ' The Greeks rightly judging that the proportions in architecture should be taken from those of the human body , their painters and statuaries were esteemed architects : nor could they have been fine

painters without being architects . Hence it is , that several of those excellent painters and philosophers are in the list of antient architect ' s : nav , they all openly taught geometry , ancl many of them practised Masonry . They were generally at the head of the fraternity , highly useful to the fellow crafts , by their designs and drawings , and bred them up able artists : only , by a law in Greece , no slave was allowed to learn the seven liberal sciences , or those of the free-born ; so that

in Greece also they were called Free Masons , and , in their many lodges , the noble and learned were accepted as brothers . ' [ . Before "Christ 334 . _] Alexander , king of Macedon , having overcome Darius Codomanus at the Granicus , and in the battles of Issus andArbela , taking Tyre and Gaza , soon overrun all Egypt ; poor Darius fled into Bactria , and was murdered by Bessus , one of his own

Generals . After a continuance of 207 years , in him ended the Persian , and in Alexander began the Grecian empire . In one of Alexander ' s drunken frolics , he burnt the rich ancl splendid city of Perse-. jpolis , which was truly a city of palates in ' the best stile ; but all its beauty and splendour could not preserve it from the licentious ravages of this insolent disturber and common enemy of the Human race ; / who , however dignified by the epithet of Great , will not be allowed to rank in the list of true Masons .

" [ Before Christ 332 / 3 Nevertheless his architect , the renowned Denocrates before-mentioned , prevailed with him to undertake some Wand design , and to encourage the Fraternity : he proposed to him to dispose Mount Athos into ti-e form of that prince ' s statue , with a city in one hand , and iti the other a large lake to water that city ; but this great design never' took effect . The ambition o'f Alexander prompted him to build a new city in Egypt , in a very convenient place over-against the island of Pharos , which he called Alexandria , and which became the capital of that kingdom .

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