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Masonic Memoir.
MASONIC MEMOIR .
AT the Annual Festival of the Grand Lodge of England , held on the 25 th of April , 1838 , a " Masonic Offering" was presented to his Royal Highness , accompanied by a copy of the proceedings of the Committee , * ( most elegantly bound , ) from which we make the following extracts .
" Public men are public property ; the good they do lives after them . Their talents and virtues extend in beneficial operation to other times , and survive for the improvement ancl the gratitude of posterity . " Athens , Sparta , Rome , live , and will live , in the memory of ages yet unborn ; not because they became cities of monumental pride , but because man , even heathen man , gave them the priceless legacy of his
intellect . " The magnificent gifts with which the great men of antiquity were endowed , and the mighty thoughts to which they gave birth , will ever exist , enlarging the sphere of human intelligence , becoming embodied in the principles of active life , vitalizing the minds of men of all time , strengthening the bands of moral discipline , ancl thus ever tending
towards the great object of our order , the happiness of mankind . " England—happy England ! amid those changes which befall all nations , has ever hacl cause for self-gratulation in the bright eminence of many of her sons . From the earliest ages to the present day , among
her kings , senators , ancl citizens , are found those of whom a grateful country may justly be proud , and who , when posterity shall claim them as her own , will be found worthy of general admiration . " In the foremost rank of this honored number will be found his Royal Highness Prince Augustus Frederick , Duke of Sussex , sixth , but now the second surviving son of King George the Third , born on
Wednesday , the 27 th of January , 1773 , and consequently , now in the sixty-sixth year of his age . j " His Royal Highness , after having been well grounded in the rudiments of education by private tutors , was entered at the University of Gottingen with his brothers , the present King of Hanover and the Duke of Cambridge . His Royal Highness remained in Germany for a
considerable time , attaining high reputation as a classical scholar , ancl became a diligent student in theology and moral philosophy . At this time , perhaps , he has few competitors in these higher ranges of intellectual acquirement , while , as a Hebrew , Latin , or German scholar , he may be referred to as an authority .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Memoir.
MASONIC MEMOIR .
AT the Annual Festival of the Grand Lodge of England , held on the 25 th of April , 1838 , a " Masonic Offering" was presented to his Royal Highness , accompanied by a copy of the proceedings of the Committee , * ( most elegantly bound , ) from which we make the following extracts .
" Public men are public property ; the good they do lives after them . Their talents and virtues extend in beneficial operation to other times , and survive for the improvement ancl the gratitude of posterity . " Athens , Sparta , Rome , live , and will live , in the memory of ages yet unborn ; not because they became cities of monumental pride , but because man , even heathen man , gave them the priceless legacy of his
intellect . " The magnificent gifts with which the great men of antiquity were endowed , and the mighty thoughts to which they gave birth , will ever exist , enlarging the sphere of human intelligence , becoming embodied in the principles of active life , vitalizing the minds of men of all time , strengthening the bands of moral discipline , ancl thus ever tending
towards the great object of our order , the happiness of mankind . " England—happy England ! amid those changes which befall all nations , has ever hacl cause for self-gratulation in the bright eminence of many of her sons . From the earliest ages to the present day , among
her kings , senators , ancl citizens , are found those of whom a grateful country may justly be proud , and who , when posterity shall claim them as her own , will be found worthy of general admiration . " In the foremost rank of this honored number will be found his Royal Highness Prince Augustus Frederick , Duke of Sussex , sixth , but now the second surviving son of King George the Third , born on
Wednesday , the 27 th of January , 1773 , and consequently , now in the sixty-sixth year of his age . j " His Royal Highness , after having been well grounded in the rudiments of education by private tutors , was entered at the University of Gottingen with his brothers , the present King of Hanover and the Duke of Cambridge . His Royal Highness remained in Germany for a
considerable time , attaining high reputation as a classical scholar , ancl became a diligent student in theology and moral philosophy . At this time , perhaps , he has few competitors in these higher ranges of intellectual acquirement , while , as a Hebrew , Latin , or German scholar , he may be referred to as an authority .