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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 7 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
generous feeling and lofty principle , which it is to be hoped will ere long produce an abundant harvest ; and in the garnering of a product so essential to the wants of the colonists , may they never forget that they owe their moral improvement to that wise and extended code which the Earl of
Durham provided for their instruction and guidance . Circumstances , to which we must here only refer with deep regret , induced him to return home on the instant . A nobleman so sensitive of his honour , felt that it had been wounded , and the infliction of the wound acting upon a
constitution , as has been stated , weak and tender , produced additional weakness , and was the too sure precursor of death . Too late was the certainty of his impending fate perfectly known , and the patient nobleman bequeathed his reputation to his country ; -his love , and it was pure and
spotless , to the wife of his bosom and his beloved children , and the honour of the peerage to his son George Frederick , the present Earl , now in his 13 th year ; to be worn , it is hoped , with all the true nobility of the father .
We have faintly attempted to do justice to the honoured dead , in respect to his character as an English nobleman ; our next duty is to inscribe on our pages the grateful record of our veneration for him as a Mason . For the great good he did while living , the lasting gratitude of the
Craft will be as deep as their consciousness of his worth is sincere . Admirably adapted for the high station to which he was called by the Present Grand Master , who partook in a great measure of the honour resulting therefrom , Lord Durham won every heart in Grand Lodge and out of it ,
by his impartiality when on the Masonic throne ; whereby peace and good order were invariably protected ; as well as by the effect produced without the walls of Grand Lodge ,
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
generous feeling and lofty principle , which it is to be hoped will ere long produce an abundant harvest ; and in the garnering of a product so essential to the wants of the colonists , may they never forget that they owe their moral improvement to that wise and extended code which the Earl of
Durham provided for their instruction and guidance . Circumstances , to which we must here only refer with deep regret , induced him to return home on the instant . A nobleman so sensitive of his honour , felt that it had been wounded , and the infliction of the wound acting upon a
constitution , as has been stated , weak and tender , produced additional weakness , and was the too sure precursor of death . Too late was the certainty of his impending fate perfectly known , and the patient nobleman bequeathed his reputation to his country ; -his love , and it was pure and
spotless , to the wife of his bosom and his beloved children , and the honour of the peerage to his son George Frederick , the present Earl , now in his 13 th year ; to be worn , it is hoped , with all the true nobility of the father .
We have faintly attempted to do justice to the honoured dead , in respect to his character as an English nobleman ; our next duty is to inscribe on our pages the grateful record of our veneration for him as a Mason . For the great good he did while living , the lasting gratitude of the
Craft will be as deep as their consciousness of his worth is sincere . Admirably adapted for the high station to which he was called by the Present Grand Master , who partook in a great measure of the honour resulting therefrom , Lord Durham won every heart in Grand Lodge and out of it ,
by his impartiality when on the Masonic throne ; whereby peace and good order were invariably protected ; as well as by the effect produced without the walls of Grand Lodge ,