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Are Not Authors Generally Freemasons ?
Gil Pirez and the liruxa *— " In those goo : ] old days , watches , steam engines , political economy , and most other of the wicked inventions ofthe Freemasons , were unknown . " Rentley ' s Magazine , Dec . 1847 , p . 600— " The Elkanee , hereditary chief of the Elcants , was an old man of very distingue appearance , and seemed born to command . He asked us questions about
many England , and expressed a great desire for an English wife . Above all things , however , his greatest ambition was to become a Freemason , and he begged of us to make him one , if it were possible , as , according to his idea , all Europeans were Freemasons , and that was the reason of their being so superior to Asiatics in science and the art of war . "t
Metropolitan Magazine Jan . 1846 , p . 283 . — "I belong to the hungry and barren lands you so bitterly denounced in the 'Tour to ' 'he-Hebrides , ' but authors ought to meet with the brotherly love of Freemasons , no matter what their origin . "J Query—If the author of these dialogues be not a Mason , how comes , this pointed allusion ? Harold , vol . i . p . 64 . Sir E . B . Lytton . London Bridye . — " ' Ay , "
said Edward , ( the king ) , ' it is said to have been built by the Romans , and one of the old Lombard Freemasons employed on my new palace of Westminster , giveth that , and some others in my domain ,, the name of the Juiliet Tower . '"
The Masonic Volunteer's Coat.
THE MASONIC VOLUNTEER'S COAT .
"ONCE upon a time , " when the naughty man Bony Party , the old bogy of nurses and children , amused himself by threatening old England with an invasion , it pleased " the lieges" of the metropolis to embody as volunteers—and all London marched about like a bee-hive en masse . Among this national army of enthusiasts was a brother , of whom it has been often our honourable duty to speak , and not merely among them , but often foremost was he at muster and at drill ; proverbial for the correctness of his discipline , as for his soldier-like
appearance , of which he during a long and useful life , gave happy recollection , in the upright carriage and firm step which tended to impose upon those whose senior he was by a good score of years . One unlucky day , however , ( and who has not their unlucky days ) , he , while examining the works of a Geneva watch , which Mr . Bony ' s orders in Council had made somewhat scarce , -forgot the very moment , which in warlike phrase is termed- ' military time . " At this very instantin popped
, , some comrades and jeered him on his tardiness . " Time , " cries the volunteer comrade . " Time " cried he of the three balls—call again to-morrow , to bis customer was all he deigned to utter— off went his coat , on went his military jacket—and off he marched with a true martial carriage .
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Are Not Authors Generally Freemasons ?
Gil Pirez and the liruxa *— " In those goo : ] old days , watches , steam engines , political economy , and most other of the wicked inventions ofthe Freemasons , were unknown . " Rentley ' s Magazine , Dec . 1847 , p . 600— " The Elkanee , hereditary chief of the Elcants , was an old man of very distingue appearance , and seemed born to command . He asked us questions about
many England , and expressed a great desire for an English wife . Above all things , however , his greatest ambition was to become a Freemason , and he begged of us to make him one , if it were possible , as , according to his idea , all Europeans were Freemasons , and that was the reason of their being so superior to Asiatics in science and the art of war . "t
Metropolitan Magazine Jan . 1846 , p . 283 . — "I belong to the hungry and barren lands you so bitterly denounced in the 'Tour to ' 'he-Hebrides , ' but authors ought to meet with the brotherly love of Freemasons , no matter what their origin . "J Query—If the author of these dialogues be not a Mason , how comes , this pointed allusion ? Harold , vol . i . p . 64 . Sir E . B . Lytton . London Bridye . — " ' Ay , "
said Edward , ( the king ) , ' it is said to have been built by the Romans , and one of the old Lombard Freemasons employed on my new palace of Westminster , giveth that , and some others in my domain ,, the name of the Juiliet Tower . '"
The Masonic Volunteer's Coat.
THE MASONIC VOLUNTEER'S COAT .
"ONCE upon a time , " when the naughty man Bony Party , the old bogy of nurses and children , amused himself by threatening old England with an invasion , it pleased " the lieges" of the metropolis to embody as volunteers—and all London marched about like a bee-hive en masse . Among this national army of enthusiasts was a brother , of whom it has been often our honourable duty to speak , and not merely among them , but often foremost was he at muster and at drill ; proverbial for the correctness of his discipline , as for his soldier-like
appearance , of which he during a long and useful life , gave happy recollection , in the upright carriage and firm step which tended to impose upon those whose senior he was by a good score of years . One unlucky day , however , ( and who has not their unlucky days ) , he , while examining the works of a Geneva watch , which Mr . Bony ' s orders in Council had made somewhat scarce , -forgot the very moment , which in warlike phrase is termed- ' military time . " At this very instantin popped
, , some comrades and jeered him on his tardiness . " Time , " cries the volunteer comrade . " Time " cried he of the three balls—call again to-morrow , to bis customer was all he deigned to utter— off went his coat , on went his military jacket—and off he marched with a true martial carriage .