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The Girls' School.
In the name of the governors and subscribers to the school , we return our best thanks to the Brethren of the Royal York Lodge for the entertainment given to the children ; trusting that when next they are invited out , the House Committee and the authorities in London will interfere as little as possible with the arrangements , so
that the children may enjoy more real liberty in their own fashioneven if it be by " a jolly romp , " such as youth only can appreciateand to which they showed they were not altogether disinclined , by the heartiness with which , on the band striking up a polka in the grounds of the Pavilion , they improvised a dance after _ their own fashion , without the aid of a master of the ceremonies . Children should
be treated as children , lest they should verify the adage "that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy . " That they are so treated in the Girls' School , we are confident , and we will , therefore , not pledge ourselves that the subscribers and friends of the institution may call at any hour , upon any day , and see them as prim and decorous as they appeared whilst singing before the Brighton Brethren and their friends on Thursday—and , indeed , we should be sorry if it were so .
Biographical Sketches Of Eminent (Deceased) Freemasons.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF EMINENT ( DECEASED ) FREEMASONS .
II . —ROBERT BURNS . Ouk departed brother , Robert Burns , author of the immortal poems of which the Right Hon . William Pitt declared , "that he could think of none since Shakespeare ' s that had so much the appearance of sweetly coming from nature "—was born nearly a
century since , in a clay-built cottage on the banks of the Doon , Avithin a few hundred yards of that same Kirk Alloway , which he afterwards rendered so famous , and distant about tAvo miles from the town of Ayr , on the 25 th of January , 1759 , under auspices which but too truly foreshadowed the fate of him who , amid storm and tempest , was brought into this inhospitable world .
Robert Burns , as he and his brother subsequently modified their name , was the eldest son of William Burness , by his wife Agnes Brown . In a letter to Dr . Moore he gives some account of himself , which we shall follow in its chief particulars , occasionally adopting the supplemental information offered by his own letters , and by those of his brother Gilbert .
In the letter referred to , he says : — " My name has made some little noise in this country . You have done me the honour to interest yourself very warmly in my behalf ; and I think u 2
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The Girls' School.
In the name of the governors and subscribers to the school , we return our best thanks to the Brethren of the Royal York Lodge for the entertainment given to the children ; trusting that when next they are invited out , the House Committee and the authorities in London will interfere as little as possible with the arrangements , so
that the children may enjoy more real liberty in their own fashioneven if it be by " a jolly romp , " such as youth only can appreciateand to which they showed they were not altogether disinclined , by the heartiness with which , on the band striking up a polka in the grounds of the Pavilion , they improvised a dance after _ their own fashion , without the aid of a master of the ceremonies . Children should
be treated as children , lest they should verify the adage "that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy . " That they are so treated in the Girls' School , we are confident , and we will , therefore , not pledge ourselves that the subscribers and friends of the institution may call at any hour , upon any day , and see them as prim and decorous as they appeared whilst singing before the Brighton Brethren and their friends on Thursday—and , indeed , we should be sorry if it were so .
Biographical Sketches Of Eminent (Deceased) Freemasons.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF EMINENT ( DECEASED ) FREEMASONS .
II . —ROBERT BURNS . Ouk departed brother , Robert Burns , author of the immortal poems of which the Right Hon . William Pitt declared , "that he could think of none since Shakespeare ' s that had so much the appearance of sweetly coming from nature "—was born nearly a
century since , in a clay-built cottage on the banks of the Doon , Avithin a few hundred yards of that same Kirk Alloway , which he afterwards rendered so famous , and distant about tAvo miles from the town of Ayr , on the 25 th of January , 1759 , under auspices which but too truly foreshadowed the fate of him who , amid storm and tempest , was brought into this inhospitable world .
Robert Burns , as he and his brother subsequently modified their name , was the eldest son of William Burness , by his wife Agnes Brown . In a letter to Dr . Moore he gives some account of himself , which we shall follow in its chief particulars , occasionally adopting the supplemental information offered by his own letters , and by those of his brother Gilbert .
In the letter referred to , he says : — " My name has made some little noise in this country . You have done me the honour to interest yourself very warmly in my behalf ; and I think u 2