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Article OBITUARY. Page 1 of 1 Article ROBERT THOMAS CRUCEFIX, LL.D., P.S.G.D. Page 1 of 4 →
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Obituary.
OBITUARY .
" To tbat complexion must we come at last . " " Ah ! little recks the royal mind Within his banquet hall , While tapers shine and music breathes , Antl beauty leads the ball ; He little recks the oaken plank Shall be his palace wall !
* * * " But haughty peer antl mighty king One doom shall overwhelm ! The oaken cell Shall lotlge him well Whose sceptre ruled a realm ; While he who never knew a home Shall find it in . the elm . "
Robert Thomas Crucefix, Ll.D., P.S.G.D.
ROBERT THOMAS CRUCEFIX , LL . D ., P . S . G . D .
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH . BY JOHN LANE , D . C . L ., P . P . J . G . D ., Oxfordshire . " Nee temere , nee timide . " IT ivould ill beseem the writer of an article like the presentto
, attempt to shield himself from the censure he would richly deserve , did he misstate facts , or wilfully draw from those within his knowledge false inferences , by contributing- tbis crude sketch under the assumed appellation of "LATOMUS , " by which for some years he was known to the readers of the FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW . He has a duty , and a very serious one to perform , to the memory of a deceased valued friend and to the Masonic public , who will look to the lines
he traces with interest , and , he knows , witii charitable allowances for the errors of a Brother who begins by declaring- it to be his inflexible determination to base all this sketch ou proved facts , to indulge in few comments , and to endeavour to write the life of a friend ancl Brother recently deceased as if he were writing the biography of an eminent person , whose existence had closed centuries since . It is with feelings of the deepest interest , that the writer
peruses the voluminous and valuable correspondence , now before him , of the late Brother Crucefix , with many eminent persons whose names will appear in this biography ; but be also feels the greatest lepugnance to breaking that most sacred of trusts—a private letter , and publishing what was i itended for a friend ' s , and not the public eye ; b . 'it , Irom ihe rich store , a selection may be made , and without breach of faith . Many , extracts from private letters may be , as it were , dovetailed into this VOL . I . n
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Obituary.
OBITUARY .
" To tbat complexion must we come at last . " " Ah ! little recks the royal mind Within his banquet hall , While tapers shine and music breathes , Antl beauty leads the ball ; He little recks the oaken plank Shall be his palace wall !
* * * " But haughty peer antl mighty king One doom shall overwhelm ! The oaken cell Shall lotlge him well Whose sceptre ruled a realm ; While he who never knew a home Shall find it in . the elm . "
Robert Thomas Crucefix, Ll.D., P.S.G.D.
ROBERT THOMAS CRUCEFIX , LL . D ., P . S . G . D .
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH . BY JOHN LANE , D . C . L ., P . P . J . G . D ., Oxfordshire . " Nee temere , nee timide . " IT ivould ill beseem the writer of an article like the presentto
, attempt to shield himself from the censure he would richly deserve , did he misstate facts , or wilfully draw from those within his knowledge false inferences , by contributing- tbis crude sketch under the assumed appellation of "LATOMUS , " by which for some years he was known to the readers of the FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW . He has a duty , and a very serious one to perform , to the memory of a deceased valued friend and to the Masonic public , who will look to the lines
he traces with interest , and , he knows , witii charitable allowances for the errors of a Brother who begins by declaring- it to be his inflexible determination to base all this sketch ou proved facts , to indulge in few comments , and to endeavour to write the life of a friend ancl Brother recently deceased as if he were writing the biography of an eminent person , whose existence had closed centuries since . It is with feelings of the deepest interest , that the writer
peruses the voluminous and valuable correspondence , now before him , of the late Brother Crucefix , with many eminent persons whose names will appear in this biography ; but be also feels the greatest lepugnance to breaking that most sacred of trusts—a private letter , and publishing what was i itended for a friend ' s , and not the public eye ; b . 'it , Irom ihe rich store , a selection may be made , and without breach of faith . Many , extracts from private letters may be , as it were , dovetailed into this VOL . I . n