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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 7 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
somewhat exceeded the Masonic line of demarcation . Yet , although we are not lawyers , we would remind our readers , that " ignorantia legis non excused culpam . " It may seem easy to obtain a qualification in Masonry—it is another
matter to prove the qualification to be grounded upon the knowledge ancl the clear practice of its principles . —We hope to have concluded .
Our obituary in the present number will be read with melancholy'interest . " Nature has bestowed on us the power of looking behind the mask ; " and her great debt
having been paid in full by four of the best Masons we knew when living , we may in all modesty render tribute to their virtues—even a whisper cannot now undermine their reputation—scandal herself is dumb .
Trevor Cony , Robert Tytler , Joseph Lythgoe , John Rippon , have , since we last wrote ( what an awful subject for an editor is his periodical obituary !) departed for the " world of spirits . "
Their shades of character were singularly different , all essentially beautiful : —In Corry , there was much of the humanities , which stamped the gentleman and the man of letters .
In Tytler , enthusiasm was too sincere to be mistaken for the blemish of plausibility ; he was so sturdy in his principles , that a superficial observer would interpret his honest ruggedness as an imperfection ; but it was a rock on which he could build securely ; he was unapproachable certainly
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
somewhat exceeded the Masonic line of demarcation . Yet , although we are not lawyers , we would remind our readers , that " ignorantia legis non excused culpam . " It may seem easy to obtain a qualification in Masonry—it is another
matter to prove the qualification to be grounded upon the knowledge ancl the clear practice of its principles . —We hope to have concluded .
Our obituary in the present number will be read with melancholy'interest . " Nature has bestowed on us the power of looking behind the mask ; " and her great debt
having been paid in full by four of the best Masons we knew when living , we may in all modesty render tribute to their virtues—even a whisper cannot now undermine their reputation—scandal herself is dumb .
Trevor Cony , Robert Tytler , Joseph Lythgoe , John Rippon , have , since we last wrote ( what an awful subject for an editor is his periodical obituary !) departed for the " world of spirits . "
Their shades of character were singularly different , all essentially beautiful : —In Corry , there was much of the humanities , which stamped the gentleman and the man of letters .
In Tytler , enthusiasm was too sincere to be mistaken for the blemish of plausibility ; he was so sturdy in his principles , that a superficial observer would interpret his honest ruggedness as an imperfection ; but it was a rock on which he could build securely ; he was unapproachable certainly