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The Architecture Of The Heavens.
science , seems extravagant , is always the consolation and too often the only reward which recompenses the solitary and persevering student for all the trials , the disappointments and delays of nights" Spent not in joys and wine , " but in the pursuit of abstracting and otherwise all but unrewarded philosophy . We must notthereforecavil with the enthusiasts' evpijica
, , of triumph when he finds such labours so rewarded . The work is embellished with illustrative diagrams , which afford clear and intelligible means of following the Professor in the progress of his announcements ; and let us add , that the interests of science , knowledge , and truth , ( perchance , three convertible terms ) , owe not a little to Mr . Nicholl for this volume . !
The Knights Templars.
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS .
TO THE EDITOR . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER —In reference to some remarks in a late Number , hy your excellent correspondent Noachida Dalruadicus , perhaps the following extract from the History of the Kni ghts Templars , by Dr . Burnes , K . H ., will not be unacceptable , though it may shake a previous faith in the statements of Llorente , and especially of the
Encyclopaedia Metropolitana , concerning "the Knights who retired into Scotland . " I quote the passage with the context . " The next authentic notice we can find on this subject , is in M . Thory ' s excellent Chronology of Masonry , wherein it is recorded that about 1728 , Sir John Mitchell Ramsay , the well known author of Cyrus , appeared in London with a system of Scottish Masonry , up to that date perfectly unknown in the metropolis , tracing its origin from the crusadesand
, consisting of three degrees , the Ecossais , the Novice , and the Knight Templar . The English Grand Lodge rejected the system of Ramsay , who , as is well known , along with the other adherents of the Stuart family , transferred it to the Continent , where it became the corner-stone of the hauts grades , and the foundation of those innumerable ramifications into which an excellent and naturally simple institution has been very uselesslextended in France and
y , Germany , other countries abroad . In pursuing the very curious subject of the hauts grades , we may observe , however , that they never obtained much consideration during the lifetime of Ramsay , although they are invariabl y traced to him and to Scotland , the fairy land of Freemasonry , * but gathered their chief impulse from the disgraceful dissentions in the Masonic Lodges at Paris , about the middle of last century , which induced the Chevalier de Bonneville and other distinguished
persons at the court of France , to form themselves into a separate institution , named , in honour of one of the princes of the blood , Louis de Bourbon , Prince de Clermont , then presiding over the Masonic fraternities , the Chapitre de Clermont . In this chapter they established , among other degrees , Ramsay ' s system of the Masonic Templars , which , ' along with other high grades , was soon conveyed into the northern
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The Architecture Of The Heavens.
science , seems extravagant , is always the consolation and too often the only reward which recompenses the solitary and persevering student for all the trials , the disappointments and delays of nights" Spent not in joys and wine , " but in the pursuit of abstracting and otherwise all but unrewarded philosophy . We must notthereforecavil with the enthusiasts' evpijica
, , of triumph when he finds such labours so rewarded . The work is embellished with illustrative diagrams , which afford clear and intelligible means of following the Professor in the progress of his announcements ; and let us add , that the interests of science , knowledge , and truth , ( perchance , three convertible terms ) , owe not a little to Mr . Nicholl for this volume . !
The Knights Templars.
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS .
TO THE EDITOR . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER —In reference to some remarks in a late Number , hy your excellent correspondent Noachida Dalruadicus , perhaps the following extract from the History of the Kni ghts Templars , by Dr . Burnes , K . H ., will not be unacceptable , though it may shake a previous faith in the statements of Llorente , and especially of the
Encyclopaedia Metropolitana , concerning "the Knights who retired into Scotland . " I quote the passage with the context . " The next authentic notice we can find on this subject , is in M . Thory ' s excellent Chronology of Masonry , wherein it is recorded that about 1728 , Sir John Mitchell Ramsay , the well known author of Cyrus , appeared in London with a system of Scottish Masonry , up to that date perfectly unknown in the metropolis , tracing its origin from the crusadesand
, consisting of three degrees , the Ecossais , the Novice , and the Knight Templar . The English Grand Lodge rejected the system of Ramsay , who , as is well known , along with the other adherents of the Stuart family , transferred it to the Continent , where it became the corner-stone of the hauts grades , and the foundation of those innumerable ramifications into which an excellent and naturally simple institution has been very uselesslextended in France and
y , Germany , other countries abroad . In pursuing the very curious subject of the hauts grades , we may observe , however , that they never obtained much consideration during the lifetime of Ramsay , although they are invariabl y traced to him and to Scotland , the fairy land of Freemasonry , * but gathered their chief impulse from the disgraceful dissentions in the Masonic Lodges at Paris , about the middle of last century , which induced the Chevalier de Bonneville and other distinguished
persons at the court of France , to form themselves into a separate institution , named , in honour of one of the princes of the blood , Louis de Bourbon , Prince de Clermont , then presiding over the Masonic fraternities , the Chapitre de Clermont . In this chapter they established , among other degrees , Ramsay ' s system of the Masonic Templars , which , ' along with other high grades , was soon conveyed into the northern