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The Revelations Of A Square.
ments ; and having stuffed his head full of scraps and remnants of ancient republics , and oligarchies , and aristocracies , and monarchies , and the laws of Solon , and Lycurgu , and Charondas , and the imaginary commonwealth of Plato , and the pandects of Justinian , and a thousand other fragments of venerable antiquity ; he was
for ever bent upon introducing some one or other of them into use ; so that , between one contradictory measure and another , he entangled the government of the Lodge in more knots , during his administration , than half a dozen successors could have untied . " He had been a Junior Warden under Dr . Desaguliers ;
but that discerning Brother entertained some doubts whether his pretensions were sterling , and therefore hesitated to promote him to a higher and more responsible office . His imperfections soon manifested themselves , ancl the Brethren who placed him in the Chair , lived to repent their choice . Pie formed several magnificent schemes for
the advancement of Masonry , but did not possess sufficient stability to carry them into effect ; like the Dutch mountebank who took a run of three miles to leap over a hill , but changing his mind during this preliminary step , when he arrived at its foot , he sat quietly down and declared himself unable to accomplish the feat . Or like the Uperephanos of Brathwait ,
he still thought . That the world without him would be brought to nought : For when the doggc-starre raged , he used to cry , ' No other atlas has the world but I . I am only Hee , supports the state ; Cements divisions , shuts up Janus' gate ; Improves the public frame , chalks out the way How princes should command—subjects
obey—Nought passeth my discovery , for my sense Extends itself to all intelligence . " This wonderful man piqued himself on his oratorical powers , and frequently wearied the patience ofthe Brethren by his dull and unmeaning harangues on the most trifling subjects . I remember on one occasion some topic was
under discussion—I think it was on the propriety of Masonic processions—which had been a fruitful subject of ridicule to the wits of London . A great difference of
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The Revelations Of A Square.
ments ; and having stuffed his head full of scraps and remnants of ancient republics , and oligarchies , and aristocracies , and monarchies , and the laws of Solon , and Lycurgu , and Charondas , and the imaginary commonwealth of Plato , and the pandects of Justinian , and a thousand other fragments of venerable antiquity ; he was
for ever bent upon introducing some one or other of them into use ; so that , between one contradictory measure and another , he entangled the government of the Lodge in more knots , during his administration , than half a dozen successors could have untied . " He had been a Junior Warden under Dr . Desaguliers ;
but that discerning Brother entertained some doubts whether his pretensions were sterling , and therefore hesitated to promote him to a higher and more responsible office . His imperfections soon manifested themselves , ancl the Brethren who placed him in the Chair , lived to repent their choice . Pie formed several magnificent schemes for
the advancement of Masonry , but did not possess sufficient stability to carry them into effect ; like the Dutch mountebank who took a run of three miles to leap over a hill , but changing his mind during this preliminary step , when he arrived at its foot , he sat quietly down and declared himself unable to accomplish the feat . Or like the Uperephanos of Brathwait ,
he still thought . That the world without him would be brought to nought : For when the doggc-starre raged , he used to cry , ' No other atlas has the world but I . I am only Hee , supports the state ; Cements divisions , shuts up Janus' gate ; Improves the public frame , chalks out the way How princes should command—subjects
obey—Nought passeth my discovery , for my sense Extends itself to all intelligence . " This wonderful man piqued himself on his oratorical powers , and frequently wearied the patience ofthe Brethren by his dull and unmeaning harangues on the most trifling subjects . I remember on one occasion some topic was
under discussion—I think it was on the propriety of Masonic processions—which had been a fruitful subject of ridicule to the wits of London . A great difference of