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Biographical Sketches Of Eminent (Deceas...
get 20 good natured Blockheads to scribble for me , but that cock won't fight you know . I will come to high Mass on Saturday , but yet wish you to give me an instant line that I may stir my stumps accordingly . " Yours as ever .
" S . W . u The Foundling goes rather in favour of the long-nosed Man . " 44 Sunday Morning . ¦ * * * I kuoAv not yet how or Avhere a Rehearsal is to take place . I am just now going to Perry to make some arrangement—if it be possible ,
I Avill apprize you of Avhat is settled , but the time runs so very short that I almost doubt being able to send you the Result . I have however already endeavoured to get the Rehearsal between 1 and 3 , or after 5 , on your account , so that my Will ' s good if my poAver be restrained . " * * *
To show that he was , besides being much attached to the Craft—for Masonic allusions repeatedly occur in his correspondence— -not only a good man and true Mason , but anxious to do his official duties with zeal—we append another extract : — " ¦ 3 rd March , 1816 . u Dear I \—There seems a fatality against my , ever hearing the grand Battle Symphony , and my learning how to Conduct Choruses from the noble knight Man , for this Morning arrived a Summons from the grand Lodge to attend the Quarterly communication on Wednesday next , when I am obliged to dine Avith my brother officers at 5 , and after Avar ds to take my station at the Organ for the remainder of the evening , & the business ¦
is never over before . 11 , so you see I am properly checkmated . " * *¦ , * With these evidences of his attachment to our Fraternity we shall only add that he held the office of Grand Organist until the year 1818 , when he was succeeded by our esteemed Brother Sir George Smart , Knfc .
Hoping we have made good our title in selecting one of our eminent deceased Brethren as the subject of our first biographical series , we take leave of the most wonderful English child , and man , of musical genius that this country can show , and rejoice to add that our late Bro . Samuel Wesley shines resplendent in our annals , as the first PG . O . to the Grand Lodge of England . Scuiba .
China . —A country where the roses have no fragrance , and the Avomen no petticoats ; where the labourer has no Sabbath and the magistrate no sense of honour ; where the roads bear no vehicles , and the ships no keels ; Avhere old men fly kites ; where the needle points to the south , and the sign of being puzzled is to scratch the antipodes of the head ; where the place of honour is on the left hand , and the seat of intellect is in the stomach ; where to take off your hat is an insolent
gesture , and to wear white- garments is to put yourself in mourning—whose literature is without an alphabet , and the language without a grammar . For countless centuries the government has been in the hands of state philosophers , and the vernacular dialects have been abandoned to the labouring classes ; finally , the Chinese language is the most intricate , cumbrous , and unwieldy vehicle of thought that ever obtained among any people . — Wingrove Cooke > Correspondent ofthe , " Times VOL , V . ' M
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Biographical Sketches Of Eminent (Deceas...
get 20 good natured Blockheads to scribble for me , but that cock won't fight you know . I will come to high Mass on Saturday , but yet wish you to give me an instant line that I may stir my stumps accordingly . " Yours as ever .
" S . W . u The Foundling goes rather in favour of the long-nosed Man . " 44 Sunday Morning . ¦ * * * I kuoAv not yet how or Avhere a Rehearsal is to take place . I am just now going to Perry to make some arrangement—if it be possible ,
I Avill apprize you of Avhat is settled , but the time runs so very short that I almost doubt being able to send you the Result . I have however already endeavoured to get the Rehearsal between 1 and 3 , or after 5 , on your account , so that my Will ' s good if my poAver be restrained . " * * *
To show that he was , besides being much attached to the Craft—for Masonic allusions repeatedly occur in his correspondence— -not only a good man and true Mason , but anxious to do his official duties with zeal—we append another extract : — " ¦ 3 rd March , 1816 . u Dear I \—There seems a fatality against my , ever hearing the grand Battle Symphony , and my learning how to Conduct Choruses from the noble knight Man , for this Morning arrived a Summons from the grand Lodge to attend the Quarterly communication on Wednesday next , when I am obliged to dine Avith my brother officers at 5 , and after Avar ds to take my station at the Organ for the remainder of the evening , & the business ¦
is never over before . 11 , so you see I am properly checkmated . " * *¦ , * With these evidences of his attachment to our Fraternity we shall only add that he held the office of Grand Organist until the year 1818 , when he was succeeded by our esteemed Brother Sir George Smart , Knfc .
Hoping we have made good our title in selecting one of our eminent deceased Brethren as the subject of our first biographical series , we take leave of the most wonderful English child , and man , of musical genius that this country can show , and rejoice to add that our late Bro . Samuel Wesley shines resplendent in our annals , as the first PG . O . to the Grand Lodge of England . Scuiba .
China . —A country where the roses have no fragrance , and the Avomen no petticoats ; where the labourer has no Sabbath and the magistrate no sense of honour ; where the roads bear no vehicles , and the ships no keels ; Avhere old men fly kites ; where the needle points to the south , and the sign of being puzzled is to scratch the antipodes of the head ; where the place of honour is on the left hand , and the seat of intellect is in the stomach ; where to take off your hat is an insolent
gesture , and to wear white- garments is to put yourself in mourning—whose literature is without an alphabet , and the language without a grammar . For countless centuries the government has been in the hands of state philosophers , and the vernacular dialects have been abandoned to the labouring classes ; finally , the Chinese language is the most intricate , cumbrous , and unwieldy vehicle of thought that ever obtained among any people . — Wingrove Cooke > Correspondent ofthe , " Times VOL , V . ' M