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Article THE PORTRAIT GALLERY—No. 2. ← Page 3 of 3 Article BROTHER JOHN HAVERS, P. S. GRAND DEACON. Page 1 of 2 →
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The Portrait Gallery—No. 2.
expense of natural justice , it is in its effect as evanescent as it is revolting . Unwilling obedience may indicate apparent submission , but crying injustice never remains unredressed : sooner or later , society avenges the wrong .
The Deputy Grand Master , seeing this—feeling this , —but not possessing the Spartan courage to attempt its removal , —has , nevertheless , the discretion to avoid , in his own person , the perpetration of it . We hope some day to be justified in retouching this picture , by throwing on it more light aud less shade , than , as truthful limners , we have been enabled to give it on the present occasion . ITHURIEL .
Brother John Havers, P. S. Grand Deacon.
BROTHER JOHN HAVERS , P . S . GRAND DEACON .
0 , do not put me to it ; for I am nothing if not critical . —SHAKSPEARB . Ovn sketch of Bro . Havers is necessarily brief . Neither his position nor his pretensions , demand an elaborate portraiture .
He is one of those " fortunate youths" in Masonry , who find themselves clothed with distinction with a consciousness of not deserving it , and destined to play a part for which nature and genius never qualified them .
With the forward confidence of conceit , our Brother Havers is at all times ready to attempt to make the worse appear the better reason ; and in cases which abler men would prudently refrain from attempting-to carry , our valorous brother is more than anxious to engage . He mistakes quixotism for chivalry , and sees in every windmill a giant adversary . There is no stone wall too thick to encounter his cranium , nor
any adventure too desperate for his daring . He hesitates not to pass " The great Serbonian bog , —' twixt Damietta and Mount Cassius old—Where armies whole have sunk . "
Alack-a-day ! that such heroic puissance should be crowned with such p igmy successes ! His voice possesses neither richness , compass , nor modulation : there
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The Portrait Gallery—No. 2.
expense of natural justice , it is in its effect as evanescent as it is revolting . Unwilling obedience may indicate apparent submission , but crying injustice never remains unredressed : sooner or later , society avenges the wrong .
The Deputy Grand Master , seeing this—feeling this , —but not possessing the Spartan courage to attempt its removal , —has , nevertheless , the discretion to avoid , in his own person , the perpetration of it . We hope some day to be justified in retouching this picture , by throwing on it more light aud less shade , than , as truthful limners , we have been enabled to give it on the present occasion . ITHURIEL .
Brother John Havers, P. S. Grand Deacon.
BROTHER JOHN HAVERS , P . S . GRAND DEACON .
0 , do not put me to it ; for I am nothing if not critical . —SHAKSPEARB . Ovn sketch of Bro . Havers is necessarily brief . Neither his position nor his pretensions , demand an elaborate portraiture .
He is one of those " fortunate youths" in Masonry , who find themselves clothed with distinction with a consciousness of not deserving it , and destined to play a part for which nature and genius never qualified them .
With the forward confidence of conceit , our Brother Havers is at all times ready to attempt to make the worse appear the better reason ; and in cases which abler men would prudently refrain from attempting-to carry , our valorous brother is more than anxious to engage . He mistakes quixotism for chivalry , and sees in every windmill a giant adversary . There is no stone wall too thick to encounter his cranium , nor
any adventure too desperate for his daring . He hesitates not to pass " The great Serbonian bog , —' twixt Damietta and Mount Cassius old—Where armies whole have sunk . "
Alack-a-day ! that such heroic puissance should be crowned with such p igmy successes ! His voice possesses neither richness , compass , nor modulation : there