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Article BROTHER JOHN HAVERS, P. S. GRAND DEACON. ← Page 2 of 2
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Brother John Havers, P. S. Grand Deacon.
is an effeminate tone , and a sing-songiness about it , which divests the speaker of all authority and the hearers of all patience . He minces out his words as a French grisette would her wares , —showing nothing but a tinsel array of trumpery .
As a debater he is painfully verbose , without the redeeming quality of being argumentative : in fact , he is a reasoner without method , a declaitner without point , and an orator without eloquence . Our Past Grand Senior Deacon may be assured of one thing , namely , that he will never personally realize the French
adage"II vaut mieux faire envie que pitie . " Although our Brother Havers may possess ( we mean in his own estimation ) great merits , we must not forget his pretensions to criticism . He has assumed the office of critical censor : long may he erjoy it . We would however suggest to our friend , not to practice
an offensive pedantry as a substitute for literary judgment , nor to fancy he has won the crown of philology , when in fact he has unwittingly acquired a cap and bells .
Undoubtedly , Brother Havers is a verb active in his own person , and has a right to cut in pieces such "subjects" as may be submitted to his professional judgment ; but great as are his powers in that respect , we may be pardoned for refusing to acknowledge his infallibility in matters masonic , and venture to think that as older and abler Masons would decline the onerous office , our—comparatively—juvenile brother , should ¦ " ¦ tarry at Jericho until his beard be grown . "
We should imagine Brother Havers to be about thirty-three years of age . He possesses a fine manly look , expansive forehead , an eye that would petrify a rhinoceros , and good features . He combines an apparent suavity of manner with an agreeable demeanour , well calculated to enlist favourable feelings on behalf of six feet of good looking humanity . He has been , and continues to be , a liberal contributor to all the Masonic Charities , —except the "Aged Masons' Asylum . "
Having now ( we suppose ) attained the highest object of his ambition as P . S . G . D ., we hope our brother will for the future , allow us to throw a little " repose" into his portrait , and in an adjuration scarcely less solemn than that of Hamlet , we say to him"Best , rest , perturbed spirit . " JUSTITIA . vor .. VII . s
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Brother John Havers, P. S. Grand Deacon.
is an effeminate tone , and a sing-songiness about it , which divests the speaker of all authority and the hearers of all patience . He minces out his words as a French grisette would her wares , —showing nothing but a tinsel array of trumpery .
As a debater he is painfully verbose , without the redeeming quality of being argumentative : in fact , he is a reasoner without method , a declaitner without point , and an orator without eloquence . Our Past Grand Senior Deacon may be assured of one thing , namely , that he will never personally realize the French
adage"II vaut mieux faire envie que pitie . " Although our Brother Havers may possess ( we mean in his own estimation ) great merits , we must not forget his pretensions to criticism . He has assumed the office of critical censor : long may he erjoy it . We would however suggest to our friend , not to practice
an offensive pedantry as a substitute for literary judgment , nor to fancy he has won the crown of philology , when in fact he has unwittingly acquired a cap and bells .
Undoubtedly , Brother Havers is a verb active in his own person , and has a right to cut in pieces such "subjects" as may be submitted to his professional judgment ; but great as are his powers in that respect , we may be pardoned for refusing to acknowledge his infallibility in matters masonic , and venture to think that as older and abler Masons would decline the onerous office , our—comparatively—juvenile brother , should ¦ " ¦ tarry at Jericho until his beard be grown . "
We should imagine Brother Havers to be about thirty-three years of age . He possesses a fine manly look , expansive forehead , an eye that would petrify a rhinoceros , and good features . He combines an apparent suavity of manner with an agreeable demeanour , well calculated to enlist favourable feelings on behalf of six feet of good looking humanity . He has been , and continues to be , a liberal contributor to all the Masonic Charities , —except the "Aged Masons' Asylum . "
Having now ( we suppose ) attained the highest object of his ambition as P . S . G . D ., we hope our brother will for the future , allow us to throw a little " repose" into his portrait , and in an adjuration scarcely less solemn than that of Hamlet , we say to him"Best , rest , perturbed spirit . " JUSTITIA . vor .. VII . s