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Are Not Authors Generally Freemasons?
movements of the multitude , which pressed on , rank after rank , like the waves of the sea . Once , indeed , a savage-looking fellow , rendered still more fierce by intoxication , seized me by the coat , and , declaring that I was a Freemason , desired me to shout for the absolute king . My actual position was not agreeable ; for my host had warned me , that although I might pass through the crowd unmolested , still , if a mere urchin raised the cry of Freemason against me , the people , in their irritated state , might fall upon me as a pack obeys a single hound . "
A Year in Spain , by a Young American . —After some interesting details of a robbery by Spanish banditti , under the command of the notorious Felipe Cano , in which the author was a personal sufferer , he concludes with the following biography of his hero : — " We learned that Felipe Cano had commenced his career of honour as a guerilla soldier , in the war of independence . B y his superior courage and conduct , he rose to command among these wild warriors , and when Ferdinand came back from his French visit
, he made him a captain . When the constitution was restored in 1820 , Cano entered into it with ardour , and of course became a Freemason . It occurred to me that had I been a brother , I should have saved my effects , and secretly determined to avail myself of the first occasion to get the brand of the hot iron . " Again , after explaining the power of the church , arising from the union of its members , he says , " The church , indeed , from a species of Freemasonry , acting in secret , and effecting the most important results by that perfect unity of will and sentiment which springs from a community of interests , and from spiritual subjection . "
The Parson ' s Daughter . — " These women have a sort of Freemasonry of their own , and the only difference between their craft and ours is , that they see no use in a secret if they may not tell it . " " It has long been a question , and by many very zealous persons a question of vast importance , whether the Eleusian and Dionysian mysteries , the fraternity of Ionian architects , and the Essenian and Pythagorean associations , were the same as those of Freemasonry at the
present moment , varied only as the religious opinions themselves differ . Huge volumes have been written , and great names made use of , in the discussions of these topics , which , to the * prophane' aud uninitiated , may not appear of such transcendant consequence . "—It is not unfair from the above , and other references in the " Parson ' s Daughter , " to consider that the talented author has betrayed the secret of his being a Freemason—only however by the tributes paid to the system .
Tobin , the dramatist , was probably a Freemason , see " Honey Moon , ' Act iv ., scene 2 . Rolando . Would I were in a Freemason ' s lodge ! Volante . Why there ? Rolando . They never admit women . Volante . It must be a dull place . Rolando . Exceedingly quiet .
Slcipp ' s Military Bijou . —In this work the following incident is related : " Captain Greville , in one of the conflicts with the enemy , was severely wounded ; his sword had been shot away ; when a Spanish officer was in the act of cutting him to pieces , Captain Greville , who was a Mason , made the masonic sign , and fortunately for him his opponent was also a Mason—his uplifted hand was stayed , and Greville was
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Are Not Authors Generally Freemasons?
movements of the multitude , which pressed on , rank after rank , like the waves of the sea . Once , indeed , a savage-looking fellow , rendered still more fierce by intoxication , seized me by the coat , and , declaring that I was a Freemason , desired me to shout for the absolute king . My actual position was not agreeable ; for my host had warned me , that although I might pass through the crowd unmolested , still , if a mere urchin raised the cry of Freemason against me , the people , in their irritated state , might fall upon me as a pack obeys a single hound . "
A Year in Spain , by a Young American . —After some interesting details of a robbery by Spanish banditti , under the command of the notorious Felipe Cano , in which the author was a personal sufferer , he concludes with the following biography of his hero : — " We learned that Felipe Cano had commenced his career of honour as a guerilla soldier , in the war of independence . B y his superior courage and conduct , he rose to command among these wild warriors , and when Ferdinand came back from his French visit
, he made him a captain . When the constitution was restored in 1820 , Cano entered into it with ardour , and of course became a Freemason . It occurred to me that had I been a brother , I should have saved my effects , and secretly determined to avail myself of the first occasion to get the brand of the hot iron . " Again , after explaining the power of the church , arising from the union of its members , he says , " The church , indeed , from a species of Freemasonry , acting in secret , and effecting the most important results by that perfect unity of will and sentiment which springs from a community of interests , and from spiritual subjection . "
The Parson ' s Daughter . — " These women have a sort of Freemasonry of their own , and the only difference between their craft and ours is , that they see no use in a secret if they may not tell it . " " It has long been a question , and by many very zealous persons a question of vast importance , whether the Eleusian and Dionysian mysteries , the fraternity of Ionian architects , and the Essenian and Pythagorean associations , were the same as those of Freemasonry at the
present moment , varied only as the religious opinions themselves differ . Huge volumes have been written , and great names made use of , in the discussions of these topics , which , to the * prophane' aud uninitiated , may not appear of such transcendant consequence . "—It is not unfair from the above , and other references in the " Parson ' s Daughter , " to consider that the talented author has betrayed the secret of his being a Freemason—only however by the tributes paid to the system .
Tobin , the dramatist , was probably a Freemason , see " Honey Moon , ' Act iv ., scene 2 . Rolando . Would I were in a Freemason ' s lodge ! Volante . Why there ? Rolando . They never admit women . Volante . It must be a dull place . Rolando . Exceedingly quiet .
Slcipp ' s Military Bijou . —In this work the following incident is related : " Captain Greville , in one of the conflicts with the enemy , was severely wounded ; his sword had been shot away ; when a Spanish officer was in the act of cutting him to pieces , Captain Greville , who was a Mason , made the masonic sign , and fortunately for him his opponent was also a Mason—his uplifted hand was stayed , and Greville was