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the sense o ^ favour , is unknown ; in the sense of duty , it is never forgotten . " The court , camp , shore , the vessel , and the mart , " are the scenes of its hourly action , its silent energy , its unproclaimed triumphs I Its devotion to the hovel as to the mansion , exonerates it from the charge of partiality or indifference ; its taciturnity from arrogance ; its individuality from imbecility of purpose ; whilst
unselfishness marks its whole career , with the glorious witness of risks incurred , labour lavished , toils endured ; - —ay , most wonderful ! even gold bestowed!—without the least chance of popular fame , the remotest contingency of lofty preferment;— -only that Brothers may meet upon that line of Masonic sympathy , which spans by a bridge erf hearts , the swollen tides of human wretchedness , and encompasses all countries , with a ring of love !
Notes On Antiquarian Research
NOTES ON ANTIQFAEIAN RESEAKCH
CHAPTER I . " Marks left by the fingers of some sly old antiquarian . " —Examiner . The Bishop of Oxford , in an interesting address , which he delivered at Winchester , before the Archaeological Institute , in 1845 ,
said : — " We cannot conceal ironi ourselves that the antiquary has been commonly conceived to be a harmless creature , patient alike , and provocative of jibes , with little pith or point of character , and little earnestness , except for trifl . es . Pope , in his sonorous " Antithesis , " has well expressed the common charge : —
" With sharpen'd sight pale antiquaries pore , The inscription value , but the bust adore . " Passing on to show " we are a link in the . golden chain which reaches from the beginning to the end , " and that reliques are witnesses and records of the past , the bishop sets forth the character of the true antiquary , concluding his address in the following sentences :
" Here , then , we take our stand . Into that old past we love to look , because in it was life ; into it we dare to look , because that life is now in us ; and that same gift we do believe we may pass , to those beyond us . "We too may and shall be ancients , and matter for history . Let us yield ourselves with what freedom we may to the working of the power within us , and our deeds will harmonise with those brought by the same power , through the noble spirits who
have been before us . Let us only use them as examples and incentives , and not feebly and blindly copy them as models . Let us visit the scenes of their departed greatness , not to array out ourselves idly , in their worn-out customs , but that , having ears to gather up the whispers of their oracular advices , we may , by our own skill in art , by boldness in execution , fashion for ourselves the outward circumstances we need . "
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the sense o ^ favour , is unknown ; in the sense of duty , it is never forgotten . " The court , camp , shore , the vessel , and the mart , " are the scenes of its hourly action , its silent energy , its unproclaimed triumphs I Its devotion to the hovel as to the mansion , exonerates it from the charge of partiality or indifference ; its taciturnity from arrogance ; its individuality from imbecility of purpose ; whilst
unselfishness marks its whole career , with the glorious witness of risks incurred , labour lavished , toils endured ; - —ay , most wonderful ! even gold bestowed!—without the least chance of popular fame , the remotest contingency of lofty preferment;— -only that Brothers may meet upon that line of Masonic sympathy , which spans by a bridge erf hearts , the swollen tides of human wretchedness , and encompasses all countries , with a ring of love !
Notes On Antiquarian Research
NOTES ON ANTIQFAEIAN RESEAKCH
CHAPTER I . " Marks left by the fingers of some sly old antiquarian . " —Examiner . The Bishop of Oxford , in an interesting address , which he delivered at Winchester , before the Archaeological Institute , in 1845 ,
said : — " We cannot conceal ironi ourselves that the antiquary has been commonly conceived to be a harmless creature , patient alike , and provocative of jibes , with little pith or point of character , and little earnestness , except for trifl . es . Pope , in his sonorous " Antithesis , " has well expressed the common charge : —
" With sharpen'd sight pale antiquaries pore , The inscription value , but the bust adore . " Passing on to show " we are a link in the . golden chain which reaches from the beginning to the end , " and that reliques are witnesses and records of the past , the bishop sets forth the character of the true antiquary , concluding his address in the following sentences :
" Here , then , we take our stand . Into that old past we love to look , because in it was life ; into it we dare to look , because that life is now in us ; and that same gift we do believe we may pass , to those beyond us . "We too may and shall be ancients , and matter for history . Let us yield ourselves with what freedom we may to the working of the power within us , and our deeds will harmonise with those brought by the same power , through the noble spirits who
have been before us . Let us only use them as examples and incentives , and not feebly and blindly copy them as models . Let us visit the scenes of their departed greatness , not to array out ourselves idly , in their worn-out customs , but that , having ears to gather up the whispers of their oracular advices , we may , by our own skill in art , by boldness in execution , fashion for ourselves the outward circumstances we need . "