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Article NOTITIÆ TEMPLARIÆ, No. 3. ← Page 3 of 3 Article THE LAMP-POST. Page 1 of 3 →
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Notitiæ Templariæ, No. 3.
by the government of Portugal as a reward for certain transatlantic adventurers and commercial speculators . In 1 S 2 G , the Grand Prior of the Order of Christ was Louis Antonio de Fontado , of the house of Barbacena , a man of considerable influence in Portugal , and who was , at one period ofthe troubles in that kingdom , cast into prison for seditious proclamations and practices .
The last accounts that have reached us , are to be found in the Eng lish newspapers for February 1832 , where it is mentioned that the Grand Prior of the Knig hts of Christ had died—a staunch adherent of the Miguelite dynasty . ° 3 : PILGRIM .
The Lamp-Post.
THE LAMP-POST .
A HOUSEHOLD ANECDOTE . BY DOUGLAS JERnOLD . PARACELSUS , we are told , extracted the finest essences from the unseemliest compounds . The moral chemist may work out a truth even from a lamp-post .
In a suburb terrace , ivhich we care not to name , the inhabitants dwelt in darkness . To them , gas was as great a mystery as the fire of Prometheus . However , a wise man , living at Number Seven—there were thirteen houses in the row , which , far removed from the main-road , displayed a most p icturesque air of g loom and solitude—proposed the innovation of a lamp-post . Strange to say , escaping the fate of many
innovators , Number Seven was neither stoned , nor torn to pieces , nor even banished the neig hbourhood . Far happier than Doctor Faustus , far more fortunate in his times than Cornelius Agrippa , Number Seven , even though , like the said Cornelius , he kept a huge black dog , was hailed as a public benefactor—a man illumined for the special good of his fellows . A lamp had long been necessary to the advancing comfort
ancl civilization of Terrace ; many and grievous were the results of miry paths and dark nig hts . In the last fog , Number Four , a hit elderly , had bared his shin-bone against the scraper of Number Five ; and Number Eight , an antique , but timid spinster , had sprained her ancle , and broken the rest of Number Nine ' s pigs , by suddenly intruding them sleepingas in the good old pastoral times , m near
upon , proximity to the habitation of their master . We might , but we will not , fill pages with a gloomy narrative of casualties , never again to be repeated in consequence of the promised new light . When Number Seven proposed his remedy of the lamp , had he presented to each of his neighbours the lamp of Aladdin , he could not
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Notitiæ Templariæ, No. 3.
by the government of Portugal as a reward for certain transatlantic adventurers and commercial speculators . In 1 S 2 G , the Grand Prior of the Order of Christ was Louis Antonio de Fontado , of the house of Barbacena , a man of considerable influence in Portugal , and who was , at one period ofthe troubles in that kingdom , cast into prison for seditious proclamations and practices .
The last accounts that have reached us , are to be found in the Eng lish newspapers for February 1832 , where it is mentioned that the Grand Prior of the Knig hts of Christ had died—a staunch adherent of the Miguelite dynasty . ° 3 : PILGRIM .
The Lamp-Post.
THE LAMP-POST .
A HOUSEHOLD ANECDOTE . BY DOUGLAS JERnOLD . PARACELSUS , we are told , extracted the finest essences from the unseemliest compounds . The moral chemist may work out a truth even from a lamp-post .
In a suburb terrace , ivhich we care not to name , the inhabitants dwelt in darkness . To them , gas was as great a mystery as the fire of Prometheus . However , a wise man , living at Number Seven—there were thirteen houses in the row , which , far removed from the main-road , displayed a most p icturesque air of g loom and solitude—proposed the innovation of a lamp-post . Strange to say , escaping the fate of many
innovators , Number Seven was neither stoned , nor torn to pieces , nor even banished the neig hbourhood . Far happier than Doctor Faustus , far more fortunate in his times than Cornelius Agrippa , Number Seven , even though , like the said Cornelius , he kept a huge black dog , was hailed as a public benefactor—a man illumined for the special good of his fellows . A lamp had long been necessary to the advancing comfort
ancl civilization of Terrace ; many and grievous were the results of miry paths and dark nig hts . In the last fog , Number Four , a hit elderly , had bared his shin-bone against the scraper of Number Five ; and Number Eight , an antique , but timid spinster , had sprained her ancle , and broken the rest of Number Nine ' s pigs , by suddenly intruding them sleepingas in the good old pastoral times , m near
upon , proximity to the habitation of their master . We might , but we will not , fill pages with a gloomy narrative of casualties , never again to be repeated in consequence of the promised new light . When Number Seven proposed his remedy of the lamp , had he presented to each of his neighbours the lamp of Aladdin , he could not