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the middle ages ; and this theory appears well to suit very many cases ; but men are not called nicknames after all the varied trees of the forest—nor are the names of all the beasts and birds of the country given to them systematically , simply as nicknames , in reference to their personal qualities . That such names are given by way of distinction is evident ; and swallow and sparrow are not distributed throughout the country without some other reason than a nickname . Both by land and by sea the necessity for distinguishing bodies and individuals arises , and . standards and figure-heads adopt their several characters . The man ' s shield would have his emblem , as in canting heraldry , and his ship would bear the emblem of his shield . These
emblems must be such as the rude painter or carver of the day can represent , and such as will mark out the individual who bears them . These objects are naturally and necessarily of the like class with those we find to constitute the repertory of heraldry , the metals , colours , and charges , and it is quite within bounds that the heraldry of the
Crusades , taking its rise when the clan system expired , may have adopted and preserved principles taught by the shapes and skalds ., and that to this day some few of the armorial bearings may represent those of the forefathers who filled the ship of the sea-king , or bore their shields in many a hard fight against the Welsh .
The personal names consist to a very great extent of these representable objects ; and it is when the copious list of these are exhausted , that verbal distinctions are found in the list , as Keen , Sharp , and others as commonly known to us . It may indeed be laid down that a great number of the old clan names are representable by their emblems to this day .
Freemasonry Vindicated.
FREEMASONRY VINDICATED .
At the present day we should have thought it impossible that any neces ^ sity could have arisen to vindicate either the principles or the practice of our Order ; but it appears we have been mistaken , and that in the modern Athens there are yet to be found men who , knowing nothing of the institution , feel it becoming in them to enter the field as champions against it ,
proclaiming to the world at once their own ignorance and their want of charity towards their neighbours—hence the publication now before us ; ' * which the preface informs us , owes its existence to several unjust attacks recently made upon the Masonic Order in some of the Edinburgh journals . The maligners of the Craft , who have been very satisfactorily castigated in this
u Vindication " arc two anonymous authors , Medicus" m the Caledonian Mercury , and a writer in the Edinburgh News ; and besides these two , the Kev . James Wright , in a paper called the A ? % has done his best to bespatter our fair fame . The origin of the discussion ( if that can be properly so called where anything like argument is made use of only by one side' * A Vindication of Freemasonry from the Charges brought against it by "Medious ?" tkc . ; by Sxsvjsiuii Fmjemasonb . Edinburgh : W " . Paterson , 1858 .
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Anglo-Saxon History Illustrated By Topog...
the middle ages ; and this theory appears well to suit very many cases ; but men are not called nicknames after all the varied trees of the forest—nor are the names of all the beasts and birds of the country given to them systematically , simply as nicknames , in reference to their personal qualities . That such names are given by way of distinction is evident ; and swallow and sparrow are not distributed throughout the country without some other reason than a nickname . Both by land and by sea the necessity for distinguishing bodies and individuals arises , and . standards and figure-heads adopt their several characters . The man ' s shield would have his emblem , as in canting heraldry , and his ship would bear the emblem of his shield . These
emblems must be such as the rude painter or carver of the day can represent , and such as will mark out the individual who bears them . These objects are naturally and necessarily of the like class with those we find to constitute the repertory of heraldry , the metals , colours , and charges , and it is quite within bounds that the heraldry of the
Crusades , taking its rise when the clan system expired , may have adopted and preserved principles taught by the shapes and skalds ., and that to this day some few of the armorial bearings may represent those of the forefathers who filled the ship of the sea-king , or bore their shields in many a hard fight against the Welsh .
The personal names consist to a very great extent of these representable objects ; and it is when the copious list of these are exhausted , that verbal distinctions are found in the list , as Keen , Sharp , and others as commonly known to us . It may indeed be laid down that a great number of the old clan names are representable by their emblems to this day .
Freemasonry Vindicated.
FREEMASONRY VINDICATED .
At the present day we should have thought it impossible that any neces ^ sity could have arisen to vindicate either the principles or the practice of our Order ; but it appears we have been mistaken , and that in the modern Athens there are yet to be found men who , knowing nothing of the institution , feel it becoming in them to enter the field as champions against it ,
proclaiming to the world at once their own ignorance and their want of charity towards their neighbours—hence the publication now before us ; ' * which the preface informs us , owes its existence to several unjust attacks recently made upon the Masonic Order in some of the Edinburgh journals . The maligners of the Craft , who have been very satisfactorily castigated in this
u Vindication " arc two anonymous authors , Medicus" m the Caledonian Mercury , and a writer in the Edinburgh News ; and besides these two , the Kev . James Wright , in a paper called the A ? % has done his best to bespatter our fair fame . The origin of the discussion ( if that can be properly so called where anything like argument is made use of only by one side' * A Vindication of Freemasonry from the Charges brought against it by "Medious ?" tkc . ; by Sxsvjsiuii Fmjemasonb . Edinburgh : W " . Paterson , 1858 .