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Noble Example Of Fidelity In A Free Mason Of Vienna.
appears not to have been altogether uncandid ; but mark the over-acted , attention of the courtly Academy of Sciences at Munich . To gratify his Sovereign , whom he conceived to be bent upon exterminating free Masonry from his dominions ,, the president called upon all th e members of the Academy to declare within eight days , whether they would withdraw themselves from the pernicious mysteries of Free Masonry . The of the first characters in
celebrated M . de BORN of Vienna , one literary Germany , who was a member of the Academy , addressed a letter to the President , in which he told him , " That so far from relinquishing the principles , he should ever glory in the name of Free . Mason ; a name that should mark every man that bears it with superior probity ; for that its princiles enjoined more viilant discharge of the duties we owe to our
p a g Creator , a more strict fidelity to our Sovereign , and a more enlarged and active benevolence to our fellow-creatures , in squaring our conduct thereby . However { added he ) , to free myself at once from your jurisdiction I herewith return you all my diplomas , and desire you will strike-out my
name from the list of your academicians . " S . J .
On Detraction.
ON DETRACTION .
SLANDER is avice made up of falshood against the reputation of our neighbour : it is an aspic constantly endeavouring to wound the most noble part of man : falsehood is so much the more insupportable , that its root is fixed in the will , and its seat in the tongue : the two chief counsellors of detraction are presumption and envy ; the one proceeding from the good inion one entertains of one ' s selfand the other from the regret we feel at
op , the splendour of our fellow creature . — -Placidis said , that the Egyptian Hieroglyp hic for a slanderer was a saw with many sharp teeth , constantly gnawing and tearing to pieces the reputation- of another—Philip , king of Macedon , was informed by some of his friends , that , notwithstanding his clemency and goodness towards the Greeks , they had slandered him very frossl and that he certainl ht to chastise them for their
crimey , y oug hilip replied , If this be the reward for the benefits which I have bestowed on them , what would they not do if I oppressed them—It shall therefore be my constant care , to proceed as I have begun ; they will in the end see their error , andgrant me their esteem . —The same king was informed , that Nicanor slandered him in public , and his majesty's counsellors were of opinion he should suffer death—I believe , replied the king , he is a man of
probity ; it would be much better to enquire whether the fault does not proceed from us : being informed that Nicanor was very poor , and that he had complained that the king neglected him in his necessity , he sent him a very rich present ; hearing afterwards that Nicanor went through the streets praising the king up to the skies , he said to his counsellors , " I hope you are now convinced , that I am a better physician , for the cure of detraction , than you are , and that I have the art of causing people to
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Noble Example Of Fidelity In A Free Mason Of Vienna.
appears not to have been altogether uncandid ; but mark the over-acted , attention of the courtly Academy of Sciences at Munich . To gratify his Sovereign , whom he conceived to be bent upon exterminating free Masonry from his dominions ,, the president called upon all th e members of the Academy to declare within eight days , whether they would withdraw themselves from the pernicious mysteries of Free Masonry . The of the first characters in
celebrated M . de BORN of Vienna , one literary Germany , who was a member of the Academy , addressed a letter to the President , in which he told him , " That so far from relinquishing the principles , he should ever glory in the name of Free . Mason ; a name that should mark every man that bears it with superior probity ; for that its princiles enjoined more viilant discharge of the duties we owe to our
p a g Creator , a more strict fidelity to our Sovereign , and a more enlarged and active benevolence to our fellow-creatures , in squaring our conduct thereby . However { added he ) , to free myself at once from your jurisdiction I herewith return you all my diplomas , and desire you will strike-out my
name from the list of your academicians . " S . J .
On Detraction.
ON DETRACTION .
SLANDER is avice made up of falshood against the reputation of our neighbour : it is an aspic constantly endeavouring to wound the most noble part of man : falsehood is so much the more insupportable , that its root is fixed in the will , and its seat in the tongue : the two chief counsellors of detraction are presumption and envy ; the one proceeding from the good inion one entertains of one ' s selfand the other from the regret we feel at
op , the splendour of our fellow creature . — -Placidis said , that the Egyptian Hieroglyp hic for a slanderer was a saw with many sharp teeth , constantly gnawing and tearing to pieces the reputation- of another—Philip , king of Macedon , was informed by some of his friends , that , notwithstanding his clemency and goodness towards the Greeks , they had slandered him very frossl and that he certainl ht to chastise them for their
crimey , y oug hilip replied , If this be the reward for the benefits which I have bestowed on them , what would they not do if I oppressed them—It shall therefore be my constant care , to proceed as I have begun ; they will in the end see their error , andgrant me their esteem . —The same king was informed , that Nicanor slandered him in public , and his majesty's counsellors were of opinion he should suffer death—I believe , replied the king , he is a man of
probity ; it would be much better to enquire whether the fault does not proceed from us : being informed that Nicanor was very poor , and that he had complained that the king neglected him in his necessity , he sent him a very rich present ; hearing afterwards that Nicanor went through the streets praising the king up to the skies , he said to his counsellors , " I hope you are now convinced , that I am a better physician , for the cure of detraction , than you are , and that I have the art of causing people to