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Masonic Chit Chat.
list of its members were published , names stranger still would probably be found to it . The national appetite for crosses and ribands must be voracious indeed , when it cannot be satisfied with his Majesty ' s liberal admissions into the legion of honour . —Paris Paper . CN THE MARRIAGE OF A MILLINER AND FRISEUR , Say , why for shame should Julia burn ?—Why call her ' mean of soul
?'—For whither would the Needle turn , If not unto the Pole ? ANCIENT CRANIOLOGY . —The Physiognomie of Rich . Sanders , 1653 , has the following passage— " A littel head is never withovt vice , and commonly is guiltie of littel wisedome ; but is rather full of foll y , which is naughty and malicious . A very great head doth not signifie any perfection of manners , though there may be sometimes , but not of true
goodness of nature . " BUSINESS . —After all , there is nothing like business for enabling us to get through our weary existence . The intellect cannot sustain its sunshine-flight long ; the flagging wing drops to the earth . Pleasure palls , and idleness is " Many gathered miseries in one name . " But business gets over the hours without counting them . It be
may be very tired at the end ; still it has brought the day to a close sooner than anything else . A NEWSPAPER . —Freshness of effect belongs to a newspaper , and distinguishes it from a library book , the former being the zenith , and the latter the nadir , with a number of intermediate degrees , occupied by pamphlets , magazines , and reviews . Besides , in a daily paper , with , advertisements , proportionate to its large size , what is deferred must , four times out five
, be extinguished . A newspaper is a market for flowers and vegetables , rather than a granary or a conservatory , and the drawer of its editor a common burial ground , not a catacomb for embalmed mummies , in which the defunct are preserved to serve in after times as medicine for the living . —Coleridge . MARRIED , May 11 , at the Savoy Church , London , by the Rev . S . Ramsey , A . M ., Brother John Whitmore , P . M . 318 , to Eliza Dennis , niece of Dr . Crucefix , Lancaster Place . DIED , June 12 , aged three years , of water on the brain , Wn . Henry , youngest son of Brother W . R . G . Key , P . M .
Obituary.
Obituary .
Feb . 8 . —BROTHER SAMUEL GREEN , 7 , Old Burlington-street , ret . 55 , Treasurer of the Burlington Lodge . The deceased was of unassuming manners and gentle disposition ; kind to all , and respected by all who knew him . For a considerable time before his death he was severely afflicted , but he attended his Lodge duties as well as he was able . His latest moments were an example to those around him , of the patience with which great suffering can be endured , when resignation chastens the mind , and the hope of a blissful eternity assures the Christian . VOL . VI . G G
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Masonic Chit Chat.
list of its members were published , names stranger still would probably be found to it . The national appetite for crosses and ribands must be voracious indeed , when it cannot be satisfied with his Majesty ' s liberal admissions into the legion of honour . —Paris Paper . CN THE MARRIAGE OF A MILLINER AND FRISEUR , Say , why for shame should Julia burn ?—Why call her ' mean of soul
?'—For whither would the Needle turn , If not unto the Pole ? ANCIENT CRANIOLOGY . —The Physiognomie of Rich . Sanders , 1653 , has the following passage— " A littel head is never withovt vice , and commonly is guiltie of littel wisedome ; but is rather full of foll y , which is naughty and malicious . A very great head doth not signifie any perfection of manners , though there may be sometimes , but not of true
goodness of nature . " BUSINESS . —After all , there is nothing like business for enabling us to get through our weary existence . The intellect cannot sustain its sunshine-flight long ; the flagging wing drops to the earth . Pleasure palls , and idleness is " Many gathered miseries in one name . " But business gets over the hours without counting them . It be
may be very tired at the end ; still it has brought the day to a close sooner than anything else . A NEWSPAPER . —Freshness of effect belongs to a newspaper , and distinguishes it from a library book , the former being the zenith , and the latter the nadir , with a number of intermediate degrees , occupied by pamphlets , magazines , and reviews . Besides , in a daily paper , with , advertisements , proportionate to its large size , what is deferred must , four times out five
, be extinguished . A newspaper is a market for flowers and vegetables , rather than a granary or a conservatory , and the drawer of its editor a common burial ground , not a catacomb for embalmed mummies , in which the defunct are preserved to serve in after times as medicine for the living . —Coleridge . MARRIED , May 11 , at the Savoy Church , London , by the Rev . S . Ramsey , A . M ., Brother John Whitmore , P . M . 318 , to Eliza Dennis , niece of Dr . Crucefix , Lancaster Place . DIED , June 12 , aged three years , of water on the brain , Wn . Henry , youngest son of Brother W . R . G . Key , P . M .
Obituary.
Obituary .
Feb . 8 . —BROTHER SAMUEL GREEN , 7 , Old Burlington-street , ret . 55 , Treasurer of the Burlington Lodge . The deceased was of unassuming manners and gentle disposition ; kind to all , and respected by all who knew him . For a considerable time before his death he was severely afflicted , but he attended his Lodge duties as well as he was able . His latest moments were an example to those around him , of the patience with which great suffering can be endured , when resignation chastens the mind , and the hope of a blissful eternity assures the Christian . VOL . VI . G G