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vwyt i ^ ai bombast Gyj ^ sie-like j ^ on ^ which they call Arabick : although I am morally certain , that not one of the Society kuows any more of thelAmMck Language than Ivdb : bf . the'CHiNES ^ ^ ^
v . i * Upon the account Sir of this stupendous Boedrda , they assunie to themselves the August Title of Ka ^ aMsts ; or rather , as I submissively ^ o ^ ecture ; GaliaUsts ^ i . e . A Enot ^ who are caballing togei thery to extir- ? gate all manner pfj ^ Religion out of theVvVbrid , " To explain the senseless and irrational j ^ 1 shall ask you or' them > or all the world ; whether't ^ ^ nse and Discreti ( m ^ which ^ th % - know nbt ^ at all of ? As for instance , Sir , would you not take
that man to be qualified for Betfflaw , that should call himself a GoMsmtfy when his Business is to mwid ShMtl and would it hot make y'Oti laugfy to hear a Fellow call himself a , Xc ^*^( X ^ when he gets his Biving by sweeping of Chimneys ! Yet this is exactly the Case of Free ^ Mas ( ym ' }¦ Every Member forsooth is & Fre & Ma & m althpugh there he some Hwmes , $ oia & Pettifog ^ Ta ylors and fWea / oerS y and an huge Bead-roll besirfliBs , of Men callingthemselves ^ Avbo l & oWno m know how to ma ^ That the
^ Sir , v ^ hich gives greatest Gfto That they have * artfu ^ d ^ narjan ^ Mm , anda & ^ a ^ lent wslb the ^ Observation of the ^ gwsfe where lie says , ^ e ^ Mm h ^ e foot cUwwys wise ' : and I really looked upon some certain Gentlemen among "iii ^^ y ^^ eyfiT otherwise dignified ahddist ^ Free-MmoifiSym MdcceTiMm ^^^ t ^ Atheism / or Gorisia ^ tius and Yaleris , to i ^ Arian H ^ ^ V- > / V- ^ . ¦
'¦ : :.. "; 1 protest , Sir , I had like to have forgotten one Man , who makes a most 11-Imstribu ^ ^ makes wonderful Brags of being of the Fifth Order : I presume ( as he is a Mason ) he means the Fifth Order of Arcfcitectwre ; which is otherwise c ^ Order : andby it , one would be tempted to imagine ^ ^ Composition 6 i Maggots and Enthusiasm . On e thing there isj which hiakes me more bold in affirming this ; and this is it . —The Doctor pretends he has found out a
Mysterious , Hocm-pocmW that against whomsoever he ( as a Member of the Fifth fader } shall pronounce this terrible Word , the Person shall instantly drop down dead . I cannot imagine how the Doctor came by this powerful word ; unless he found it in MaUafe ' s Pantagrwel ; or in Doctor Fuller ' s Dispensatory ; . y which are two great Eepositories of Incomprehensible Nonsense . I'll take all the Care I can , to keep out of the Doctor ' s Way ; for I am sure if he meets me , and knows me , out comes the great Millesyllabioum , and I ' m as dead as William the Cofiotieror "
This last paragraph evidently alludes to Dr . Eawlinson himself The letter is too long for insertion in a single number of the Magazine , but we propose to continue it . 0 ur readers will perceive that objections to Ereemasonry , and conjectures and ideas about the Order , equally absurd with any which prevail in our own time , were
rife in 1725 ; their whimsicality is of course their only recommendation , and we now present them to our Brethren ^ in the hope that they may derive from them at least as much amusement as was probably experienced by Dr . Eawlinsoii when he placed it in bis Masonic Collection . N . ' JS . The capital letters , italics , antiquated spelling , & c . & c are carefuDy transcribed from the original .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
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vwyt i ^ ai bombast Gyj ^ sie-like j ^ on ^ which they call Arabick : although I am morally certain , that not one of the Society kuows any more of thelAmMck Language than Ivdb : bf . the'CHiNES ^ ^ ^
v . i * Upon the account Sir of this stupendous Boedrda , they assunie to themselves the August Title of Ka ^ aMsts ; or rather , as I submissively ^ o ^ ecture ; GaliaUsts ^ i . e . A Enot ^ who are caballing togei thery to extir- ? gate all manner pfj ^ Religion out of theVvVbrid , " To explain the senseless and irrational j ^ 1 shall ask you or' them > or all the world ; whether't ^ ^ nse and Discreti ( m ^ which ^ th % - know nbt ^ at all of ? As for instance , Sir , would you not take
that man to be qualified for Betfflaw , that should call himself a GoMsmtfy when his Business is to mwid ShMtl and would it hot make y'Oti laugfy to hear a Fellow call himself a , Xc ^*^( X ^ when he gets his Biving by sweeping of Chimneys ! Yet this is exactly the Case of Free ^ Mas ( ym ' }¦ Every Member forsooth is & Fre & Ma & m althpugh there he some Hwmes , $ oia & Pettifog ^ Ta ylors and fWea / oerS y and an huge Bead-roll besirfliBs , of Men callingthemselves ^ Avbo l & oWno m know how to ma ^ That the
^ Sir , v ^ hich gives greatest Gfto That they have * artfu ^ d ^ narjan ^ Mm , anda & ^ a ^ lent wslb the ^ Observation of the ^ gwsfe where lie says , ^ e ^ Mm h ^ e foot cUwwys wise ' : and I really looked upon some certain Gentlemen among "iii ^^ y ^^ eyfiT otherwise dignified ahddist ^ Free-MmoifiSym MdcceTiMm ^^^ t ^ Atheism / or Gorisia ^ tius and Yaleris , to i ^ Arian H ^ ^ V- > / V- ^ . ¦
'¦ : :.. "; 1 protest , Sir , I had like to have forgotten one Man , who makes a most 11-Imstribu ^ ^ makes wonderful Brags of being of the Fifth Order : I presume ( as he is a Mason ) he means the Fifth Order of Arcfcitectwre ; which is otherwise c ^ Order : andby it , one would be tempted to imagine ^ ^ Composition 6 i Maggots and Enthusiasm . On e thing there isj which hiakes me more bold in affirming this ; and this is it . —The Doctor pretends he has found out a
Mysterious , Hocm-pocmW that against whomsoever he ( as a Member of the Fifth fader } shall pronounce this terrible Word , the Person shall instantly drop down dead . I cannot imagine how the Doctor came by this powerful word ; unless he found it in MaUafe ' s Pantagrwel ; or in Doctor Fuller ' s Dispensatory ; . y which are two great Eepositories of Incomprehensible Nonsense . I'll take all the Care I can , to keep out of the Doctor ' s Way ; for I am sure if he meets me , and knows me , out comes the great Millesyllabioum , and I ' m as dead as William the Cofiotieror "
This last paragraph evidently alludes to Dr . Eawlinson himself The letter is too long for insertion in a single number of the Magazine , but we propose to continue it . 0 ur readers will perceive that objections to Ereemasonry , and conjectures and ideas about the Order , equally absurd with any which prevail in our own time , were
rife in 1725 ; their whimsicality is of course their only recommendation , and we now present them to our Brethren ^ in the hope that they may derive from them at least as much amusement as was probably experienced by Dr . Eawlinsoii when he placed it in bis Masonic Collection . N . ' JS . The capital letters , italics , antiquated spelling , & c . & c are carefuDy transcribed from the original .