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Article ANCIENT MASONS' MARKS. ← Page 2 of 9 →
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Ancient Masons' Marks.
in buildin' up the lofty rhyme , gie us a' Pindar in English . " It was but lately in these Western lands , that the words just quoted came with the full power of truth upon our mind , on meeting , after years of separation , one with whom our recollection of schoolboy days , and college life , were inseparably connected . The same Alma Mater hailed us as her children
, and we could both look back with pleasure and pride to the evening when , together , we were received by a mutual friend into the mysteries of Freemasonry , and tendered our fealty to a Lodge , whose proud motto still is , " Second to none , "— Esto perpetua . " It is thus kindlthenthat we resume . The morning had
y , , already far advanced into day , and the flag of Old England floated freely from the castled steep of St . Elmo and the cavalier of St . James , —when we dismounted from our Pegasus , with the fortunate belief that our latter lucubrations savoured
too much of the genus loci , —the essence of the poppy . Acting on that belief , we shall now suppose that " Nature ' s sweet restorer , balmy sleep , " has done its duty , and a hearty breakfast put us into excellent humour with all the world , not even excepting the " Nix niangiare" steps , ( for whose effects upon the mind , see Byron ) , and the indefatigable
entomologists who lie thereon . We have passed them , and with serene temper enter the boat . Stout of frame are boat and boatmen ; the former is called the " Divina Providenza . " The latter are respectively called Giovanni and Paoli : the two worthies agree in these points , —they hate the Greeks , and are rather afraid than otherwise of Freemasons . We are
crossing the Grand Harbour ; that strange-looking turret on your right marks the Isola point ; see , on each side is sculptured alternately an eye , an ear , and a fleur de lis . On the other side of the dockyard creek ( formerly the harbour for the war galleys of St . John ) , up which we now proceed , rises the giim front of St . Angelo , rampart above rampart , like the
inner and outer ballium of a feudal castle . Few , and at longintervals , are the openings in the walls , and these are strongly arched and barred with iron ; eastward , towering above the rest , is a strong cavalier ; westward lies the old residence of the G . M . and the chapel of the Order of St . John . In the chapel is a marble tablet with an inscription mottoand shield
, of arms , relating to " Fr . Philippus de Villiers L ' isle Adam , Magister Hospitalis Militia ? , " for such is he simply termed . Farther on , those black-looking houses form part of the town of Vittoriosa , so named from a victory gained there in olden VOL . III . 2 T
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Ancient Masons' Marks.
in buildin' up the lofty rhyme , gie us a' Pindar in English . " It was but lately in these Western lands , that the words just quoted came with the full power of truth upon our mind , on meeting , after years of separation , one with whom our recollection of schoolboy days , and college life , were inseparably connected . The same Alma Mater hailed us as her children
, and we could both look back with pleasure and pride to the evening when , together , we were received by a mutual friend into the mysteries of Freemasonry , and tendered our fealty to a Lodge , whose proud motto still is , " Second to none , "— Esto perpetua . " It is thus kindlthenthat we resume . The morning had
y , , already far advanced into day , and the flag of Old England floated freely from the castled steep of St . Elmo and the cavalier of St . James , —when we dismounted from our Pegasus , with the fortunate belief that our latter lucubrations savoured
too much of the genus loci , —the essence of the poppy . Acting on that belief , we shall now suppose that " Nature ' s sweet restorer , balmy sleep , " has done its duty , and a hearty breakfast put us into excellent humour with all the world , not even excepting the " Nix niangiare" steps , ( for whose effects upon the mind , see Byron ) , and the indefatigable
entomologists who lie thereon . We have passed them , and with serene temper enter the boat . Stout of frame are boat and boatmen ; the former is called the " Divina Providenza . " The latter are respectively called Giovanni and Paoli : the two worthies agree in these points , —they hate the Greeks , and are rather afraid than otherwise of Freemasons . We are
crossing the Grand Harbour ; that strange-looking turret on your right marks the Isola point ; see , on each side is sculptured alternately an eye , an ear , and a fleur de lis . On the other side of the dockyard creek ( formerly the harbour for the war galleys of St . John ) , up which we now proceed , rises the giim front of St . Angelo , rampart above rampart , like the
inner and outer ballium of a feudal castle . Few , and at longintervals , are the openings in the walls , and these are strongly arched and barred with iron ; eastward , towering above the rest , is a strong cavalier ; westward lies the old residence of the G . M . and the chapel of the Order of St . John . In the chapel is a marble tablet with an inscription mottoand shield
, of arms , relating to " Fr . Philippus de Villiers L ' isle Adam , Magister Hospitalis Militia ? , " for such is he simply termed . Farther on , those black-looking houses form part of the town of Vittoriosa , so named from a victory gained there in olden VOL . III . 2 T