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Within The Shadow Of The Shaft.
WITHIN THE SHADOW OF THE SHAFT .
With Illustrations by the Authoi ( Concluded from page 114 . J
BY BRO . SAMUEL POINTER , P . M . AND TREASURER , BURGOYNE , NO . 902 ; P . M . ATHEMU 3 I , NO . 1491 . " Nor could thy fabric , Paul ! defend thee long , Though thou wert sacred to thy Maker ' s praise ; Though made immortal by a poet's song , And poets' songs the Theban walls could raise .
" The daring flames peep'd in and saw from far The awful beauties of the sacred quire ; But , since it was profaned by civil war , Heaven thought it fit to have it purged by fire . "
—Dryden . —Annus Mirabilis . £ T is very true that the 5 public demanded a victim , and it might not have been possible , with reference to
- " the excited state of the popular feeling and the ? safety of the community , to have interposed between the citizens and their self-sacrificing prey :
and here it may be convenient to examine whether the cockneys had any just or reasonable s ^^ ground for the ap-*^ 35 prehensions which
WUfZ undoubtedly the vast f & " ] majority of them en's : ;'' ' tertained . rSf : ' :-. Hubert ' s story was /] \ l , that he was hired in Jj . Holland to come to
< - " ' England on his ejfgs . wicked exploit . Now , W § % were , as is well - ~ * known , at war both ; & . with Holland and bgLj . France then and
, W @ S people always lend ppf ready ears to the tales ^^ of the machinations of their enemies . But there is another
circumstance , to which I think historians have not given sufficient prominence , that , to my mind , goes very far in justifying the inhabitants of the metropolitan city in their expressed ajiprehensioiis that the calamity was occasioned b y design rather than by accident ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Within The Shadow Of The Shaft.
WITHIN THE SHADOW OF THE SHAFT .
With Illustrations by the Authoi ( Concluded from page 114 . J
BY BRO . SAMUEL POINTER , P . M . AND TREASURER , BURGOYNE , NO . 902 ; P . M . ATHEMU 3 I , NO . 1491 . " Nor could thy fabric , Paul ! defend thee long , Though thou wert sacred to thy Maker ' s praise ; Though made immortal by a poet's song , And poets' songs the Theban walls could raise .
" The daring flames peep'd in and saw from far The awful beauties of the sacred quire ; But , since it was profaned by civil war , Heaven thought it fit to have it purged by fire . "
—Dryden . —Annus Mirabilis . £ T is very true that the 5 public demanded a victim , and it might not have been possible , with reference to
- " the excited state of the popular feeling and the ? safety of the community , to have interposed between the citizens and their self-sacrificing prey :
and here it may be convenient to examine whether the cockneys had any just or reasonable s ^^ ground for the ap-*^ 35 prehensions which
WUfZ undoubtedly the vast f & " ] majority of them en's : ;'' ' tertained . rSf : ' :-. Hubert ' s story was /] \ l , that he was hired in Jj . Holland to come to
< - " ' England on his ejfgs . wicked exploit . Now , W § % were , as is well - ~ * known , at war both ; & . with Holland and bgLj . France then and
, W @ S people always lend ppf ready ears to the tales ^^ of the machinations of their enemies . But there is another
circumstance , to which I think historians have not given sufficient prominence , that , to my mind , goes very far in justifying the inhabitants of the metropolitan city in their expressed ajiprehensioiis that the calamity was occasioned b y design rather than by accident ,