-
Articles/Ads
Article ARE NOT AUTHORS GENERALLY FREEMASONS ? ← Page 3 of 4 →
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Are Not Authors Generally Freemasons ?
It is only necessary to observe , that Smylar was compelled to conceal herself by the sudden entrance of Sir George ; that she had previously been plotting against the happiness of Col . Bruff ' s daughter , and in her concealment was very nearly learning all the secrets of her master and Sir George ; but that she accidentally discovered herself , in a very laughable scene that occurred a few minutes after .
New Monthly Magazine , August , 1846 . —Travels of Mr . Jolly Green , p . 449 . Sometimes the subject of Freemasonry is joked upon , e . g .: — A swindler , calling himself Sir Henry Jones , Bart , is sadly emeshing our poor friend Jolly Green , to whom he is relating his escape from a dungeon , in which he states himself to have been ensconsed by the Barbary Corsairs . In three days his head was to be struck off . " This ( said he ) was rather a ticklish position , but I knew the customs of the country , and that everything was to be done by briberyso I sent for the head
, gaoler , and suspecting him to be a Freemason , I gave him the sign , which to my great gratification he answered ; a few words in Arabic settled the matter . First of all he got me decent clothes , a turban , a jacket , a pair of loose trousers ; then he sent me a very good dinner , with a bottle of the very best port I ever drank , from the Dey ' s own portable cellar—they carry their wine in that country when they travel on the backs of the camels—and after that I had a cigar , and made
myself tolerably comfortable with some cold brandy and water . " Jolly Green . " And did he do all this merely because you were a Freemason ? by Jove , I ' 11 enter a lodge to-morrow , " Jones . " I ' 11 introduce you ; my lodge here in Paris , ' the Star in the East , ' the most respectable in France . I ' m a Past Grand , so is Louis Philippe . —What did you say ? oh , about the gaoler . No , not exactly—a trifle of money passed between us . I agreed to give him one thousand piastres to supply me with what I wanted , and set me at liberty . " Jolly Green . " But where did you get the money , " & c .
Bentley ' s Miscellany , July , 1846 , p . 3 . Brian O'Linn . — " ' My dear young friend , * said Dr . Faunce , addressing his guest , * I feel towards you a sort of Freemasonry , an Order which I have the honour to belong to , which leads me to forget that we formed an accidental acquaintance on the top of a stage-coach only four days ago . To strangers I am not very communicative , but in that light a secret impulse tells me you are not to be considered . '"
Metropolitan Magazine for May , 1846 , p . 111 . Literary Notice . — "Morning , and other Poems . " By a Member of the Scottish Bar" Poetry might be judged by a sort of sliding scale of justice . If we say , an occasional flash of fire of genius , being the masonic sign of bards , entitles the poet to a charter of immunities , his freedom should be as the winds of heaven , whose steady brightness is as the morning light growing into the splendour of the perfect day . " "
Fide also an extract from the same Magazine some pages back—the author must surely be a Mason . Memoirs of a Physician . By Alexander Dumas , vol . iii . part 1 . Joseph Balsamo . —The imposter Balsamo is made by Dumas to ap-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Are Not Authors Generally Freemasons ?
It is only necessary to observe , that Smylar was compelled to conceal herself by the sudden entrance of Sir George ; that she had previously been plotting against the happiness of Col . Bruff ' s daughter , and in her concealment was very nearly learning all the secrets of her master and Sir George ; but that she accidentally discovered herself , in a very laughable scene that occurred a few minutes after .
New Monthly Magazine , August , 1846 . —Travels of Mr . Jolly Green , p . 449 . Sometimes the subject of Freemasonry is joked upon , e . g .: — A swindler , calling himself Sir Henry Jones , Bart , is sadly emeshing our poor friend Jolly Green , to whom he is relating his escape from a dungeon , in which he states himself to have been ensconsed by the Barbary Corsairs . In three days his head was to be struck off . " This ( said he ) was rather a ticklish position , but I knew the customs of the country , and that everything was to be done by briberyso I sent for the head
, gaoler , and suspecting him to be a Freemason , I gave him the sign , which to my great gratification he answered ; a few words in Arabic settled the matter . First of all he got me decent clothes , a turban , a jacket , a pair of loose trousers ; then he sent me a very good dinner , with a bottle of the very best port I ever drank , from the Dey ' s own portable cellar—they carry their wine in that country when they travel on the backs of the camels—and after that I had a cigar , and made
myself tolerably comfortable with some cold brandy and water . " Jolly Green . " And did he do all this merely because you were a Freemason ? by Jove , I ' 11 enter a lodge to-morrow , " Jones . " I ' 11 introduce you ; my lodge here in Paris , ' the Star in the East , ' the most respectable in France . I ' m a Past Grand , so is Louis Philippe . —What did you say ? oh , about the gaoler . No , not exactly—a trifle of money passed between us . I agreed to give him one thousand piastres to supply me with what I wanted , and set me at liberty . " Jolly Green . " But where did you get the money , " & c .
Bentley ' s Miscellany , July , 1846 , p . 3 . Brian O'Linn . — " ' My dear young friend , * said Dr . Faunce , addressing his guest , * I feel towards you a sort of Freemasonry , an Order which I have the honour to belong to , which leads me to forget that we formed an accidental acquaintance on the top of a stage-coach only four days ago . To strangers I am not very communicative , but in that light a secret impulse tells me you are not to be considered . '"
Metropolitan Magazine for May , 1846 , p . 111 . Literary Notice . — "Morning , and other Poems . " By a Member of the Scottish Bar" Poetry might be judged by a sort of sliding scale of justice . If we say , an occasional flash of fire of genius , being the masonic sign of bards , entitles the poet to a charter of immunities , his freedom should be as the winds of heaven , whose steady brightness is as the morning light growing into the splendour of the perfect day . " "
Fide also an extract from the same Magazine some pages back—the author must surely be a Mason . Memoirs of a Physician . By Alexander Dumas , vol . iii . part 1 . Joseph Balsamo . —The imposter Balsamo is made by Dumas to ap-