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On Freemasonry.
often double , and tolerably regular . Those belonging to the ancient kings are only distinguished from the others by the magnificence of the sarcophagi , and the mysterious solitude of their situation . The others immediately overlook the great buildings in the town . The sculpture is more highly finished than in the temples . The figures are cut in
still profile outline , but supple and natural attitudes , with groups in perspective . Some represented games , such as rope-dancing , and asses taught to play tricks , and rear on their hind legs . After passing the apartments , adorned in the above elegant style , he entered long and gloomy galleries , which wound backwards and forwards in numerous
angles , and seemed to occupy a wide extent of ground . They are melancholy , repulsive , and without any decoration , but from time to time open into other chambers covered with hieroglyphics , and branch out into narrow passages , which lead to deep perpendicular pits . At the bottom of these pits he found other adorned chambers , and lower still , a new series of perpendicular pits ; and at last ascended a long flight of steps , which he found to be on a level with the first chambers he had entered . "
After the building of King Solomon ' s Temple , other nations were not indifferent to the cultivation and successful practice of Operative Masonry ; to which they were probably incited by the dispersion of the Brethren ; whence the true principles of architecture were disseminated after that magnificent fabric was completed . Persepolis was built by the
Persians ; Ecbatana by the Medes ; Damascus was embellished with many splendid buildings by the Syrians ; but Egypt still took the lead in great scientific undertakings ; and Amasis , its king , with his flourishing Lodges of Masons , projected and executed wonderful works , some of which are thus described by Herodotus . — " This prince erected at
Sais , in honour of Minerva , a magnificent portico , exceeding every thing of the kind in size and grandeur . The stones of which it was composed were of a very uncommon size and quality , and decorated with a number of colossal statues and androsphynges , of enormous magnitude . To repair this templehe also collected stones of an amazing thickness
, , part of which he brought from the quarries of Memphis , and part from the city of Elephantine , which is distant from Sais a journey of about twenty days . But what , in my opinion , is most of all to be admired , was a monolith edifice which he brought from Elephantine , constructed of one entire
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry.
often double , and tolerably regular . Those belonging to the ancient kings are only distinguished from the others by the magnificence of the sarcophagi , and the mysterious solitude of their situation . The others immediately overlook the great buildings in the town . The sculpture is more highly finished than in the temples . The figures are cut in
still profile outline , but supple and natural attitudes , with groups in perspective . Some represented games , such as rope-dancing , and asses taught to play tricks , and rear on their hind legs . After passing the apartments , adorned in the above elegant style , he entered long and gloomy galleries , which wound backwards and forwards in numerous
angles , and seemed to occupy a wide extent of ground . They are melancholy , repulsive , and without any decoration , but from time to time open into other chambers covered with hieroglyphics , and branch out into narrow passages , which lead to deep perpendicular pits . At the bottom of these pits he found other adorned chambers , and lower still , a new series of perpendicular pits ; and at last ascended a long flight of steps , which he found to be on a level with the first chambers he had entered . "
After the building of King Solomon ' s Temple , other nations were not indifferent to the cultivation and successful practice of Operative Masonry ; to which they were probably incited by the dispersion of the Brethren ; whence the true principles of architecture were disseminated after that magnificent fabric was completed . Persepolis was built by the
Persians ; Ecbatana by the Medes ; Damascus was embellished with many splendid buildings by the Syrians ; but Egypt still took the lead in great scientific undertakings ; and Amasis , its king , with his flourishing Lodges of Masons , projected and executed wonderful works , some of which are thus described by Herodotus . — " This prince erected at
Sais , in honour of Minerva , a magnificent portico , exceeding every thing of the kind in size and grandeur . The stones of which it was composed were of a very uncommon size and quality , and decorated with a number of colossal statues and androsphynges , of enormous magnitude . To repair this templehe also collected stones of an amazing thickness
, , part of which he brought from the quarries of Memphis , and part from the city of Elephantine , which is distant from Sais a journey of about twenty days . But what , in my opinion , is most of all to be admired , was a monolith edifice which he brought from Elephantine , constructed of one entire