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The Humble Address Of The Most Antient And Honourable Society Of Free And Accepted Masons, Resident In The County Of Lincoln. In Grand Lodge Assembled.
our first meeting together in Grand Lodge to express our unshaken Loyalty to our King , Duty to your Royal Highness , and firm Attachment to that Constitution aud form of Government , by which we are ' enabled through every part of the Globe , to meet each other free and uninterrupted , and in the fullest extent to pursue the great objects of MASONRY , in promoting and diffusing among men , Universal Charity , Brotherly Love , and Peace . These are the leading
principles of our hearts , and will ever be the great rule of o ur actions •—and by a due submission , and ready obedience to the Laws of our country , to testify to the world , that we are men , neither insensible of , nor ungrateful for the invaluable blessing of Liberty , so essential to MASONRY , which we Britons at this moment enjoy , in a far more enviable degree , than is known to any other of our fellow-creatures under the canopy of Heaven .
That our Almi ghty Creator the Great Architect of the Universe may ever preserve you in his holy keeping , is the heartfelt prayer of us , and of all true Masons . GRANTHAM , June 21 ,- 1792 . - Signed , in the Name of , and by desire of the Provincial Grand Lod ge ,
WILLIAM PETERS , P . G . M . ( Chaplain to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales . ) JOHN DODDWORTH , M . D . & D . P . G . M , MATTHEW BARNETT , S . G . W . GERVAS PARNELL , J . G . W .
Of Man's Happiness.
OF MAN ' s HAPPINESS .
GOOD and bad , affluence and want , felicity and misfortune , _ are great or little , just as we suit ourselves to them . He is the richest man who desires no superfluity , and wants for no necessary . The discontented rich are poor , and an opulent miser may live worse than a beggar . Fortune , in itself , is neither good nor bad , but as we comport with it ; and in this sense , every man makes his fortune
own . —Misfortunes touch not him whose mind is superior to them . It is always a comfort and an honour to meet misfortunes bravely , for no man can prove his courage but by trial . Contentment is as often to be found in the cottage " as in the palace . 1 o check and restrain all such inclinations as tend to impair and destroy the bonywound the mindand bring is
, , misery upon- man , a duty indispensible to our happiness ; in other respects it is best-to follow nature . If Diogenes lived content in his tub , he was as happy asAlexander . Equal content will render men equally happy in the different situations of life , * '
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The Humble Address Of The Most Antient And Honourable Society Of Free And Accepted Masons, Resident In The County Of Lincoln. In Grand Lodge Assembled.
our first meeting together in Grand Lodge to express our unshaken Loyalty to our King , Duty to your Royal Highness , and firm Attachment to that Constitution aud form of Government , by which we are ' enabled through every part of the Globe , to meet each other free and uninterrupted , and in the fullest extent to pursue the great objects of MASONRY , in promoting and diffusing among men , Universal Charity , Brotherly Love , and Peace . These are the leading
principles of our hearts , and will ever be the great rule of o ur actions •—and by a due submission , and ready obedience to the Laws of our country , to testify to the world , that we are men , neither insensible of , nor ungrateful for the invaluable blessing of Liberty , so essential to MASONRY , which we Britons at this moment enjoy , in a far more enviable degree , than is known to any other of our fellow-creatures under the canopy of Heaven .
That our Almi ghty Creator the Great Architect of the Universe may ever preserve you in his holy keeping , is the heartfelt prayer of us , and of all true Masons . GRANTHAM , June 21 ,- 1792 . - Signed , in the Name of , and by desire of the Provincial Grand Lod ge ,
WILLIAM PETERS , P . G . M . ( Chaplain to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales . ) JOHN DODDWORTH , M . D . & D . P . G . M , MATTHEW BARNETT , S . G . W . GERVAS PARNELL , J . G . W .
Of Man's Happiness.
OF MAN ' s HAPPINESS .
GOOD and bad , affluence and want , felicity and misfortune , _ are great or little , just as we suit ourselves to them . He is the richest man who desires no superfluity , and wants for no necessary . The discontented rich are poor , and an opulent miser may live worse than a beggar . Fortune , in itself , is neither good nor bad , but as we comport with it ; and in this sense , every man makes his fortune
own . —Misfortunes touch not him whose mind is superior to them . It is always a comfort and an honour to meet misfortunes bravely , for no man can prove his courage but by trial . Contentment is as often to be found in the cottage " as in the palace . 1 o check and restrain all such inclinations as tend to impair and destroy the bonywound the mindand bring is
, , misery upon- man , a duty indispensible to our happiness ; in other respects it is best-to follow nature . If Diogenes lived content in his tub , he was as happy asAlexander . Equal content will render men equally happy in the different situations of life , * '