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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 9 of 10 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
Baunication of the 3 rd of March , was simply to the effect that he should bring before the Grand Lodge a breach of privilege in the reports of proceedings of Grand Lodge in a recent publication . It contained no reference to circumstance , time , or title . It was pre-eminently vague—an apt illustration of the saying ,
that" Language was given man to hide his thoughts ;" for any thing better calculated to take the Grand Lodge by surprise could not have been conceived . Plow , from such a notice , the representatives of Lodges * could be said to be apprised of the nature of the seven resolutions , subsequently
proposed and passed , so that they might be prepared to decide thereon ivithout being taken by surprise , is far beyond bur ingenuity to discover . Nothing , on the contrary , can be clearer from the notice itself , and from the fact that these resolutions , instead of being proposed seriatim , were moved
atid carried in a lump , that surprise was intended , and , perhaps , sanctified as a means to anticipated success . The right worshipful mover would never have ventured to libel fche discretion , Or undervalue the judgment , of a Lord Chancellor , or to offend the common sense of the House of Peers ,
by proposing , as one , resolutions sb distinct in their application as to be necessarily seperated and numbered ; and speaking for themselves in the plural number . And although
" A fellow feeling makes us wond ' rous kind , " « these resolutions" will siy little for the waver of his discretion by the Grand Master ; and still less , where such community of sentiment could scarcel y exist , for the surrender of their reason and privileges by the Members of Grand
Lodge . We admit , in general terms , that the official defer- ; ence of the one was admirably matched by the mistaken humility of the other ; and we are the more thankful , oit
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
Baunication of the 3 rd of March , was simply to the effect that he should bring before the Grand Lodge a breach of privilege in the reports of proceedings of Grand Lodge in a recent publication . It contained no reference to circumstance , time , or title . It was pre-eminently vague—an apt illustration of the saying ,
that" Language was given man to hide his thoughts ;" for any thing better calculated to take the Grand Lodge by surprise could not have been conceived . Plow , from such a notice , the representatives of Lodges * could be said to be apprised of the nature of the seven resolutions , subsequently
proposed and passed , so that they might be prepared to decide thereon ivithout being taken by surprise , is far beyond bur ingenuity to discover . Nothing , on the contrary , can be clearer from the notice itself , and from the fact that these resolutions , instead of being proposed seriatim , were moved
atid carried in a lump , that surprise was intended , and , perhaps , sanctified as a means to anticipated success . The right worshipful mover would never have ventured to libel fche discretion , Or undervalue the judgment , of a Lord Chancellor , or to offend the common sense of the House of Peers ,
by proposing , as one , resolutions sb distinct in their application as to be necessarily seperated and numbered ; and speaking for themselves in the plural number . And although
" A fellow feeling makes us wond ' rous kind , " « these resolutions" will siy little for the waver of his discretion by the Grand Master ; and still less , where such community of sentiment could scarcel y exist , for the surrender of their reason and privileges by the Members of Grand
Lodge . We admit , in general terms , that the official defer- ; ence of the one was admirably matched by the mistaken humility of the other ; and we are the more thankful , oit