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Article MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES. ← Page 5 of 5
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Masonic Notes And Queries.
MENDIZABAX . Mciiclijiahal , lately prime minister of Spain , was a Mason , and was persecuted on that ground . He assisted in the revival , on the restoration of the Constitution . LIONEL PARE 1 L . In Bulwer ' s last great novel , "AA hat will he do with it ? " Lionel Darell
is the name of a personage . Lionel Darell was J . G . AV , of England towards the close of the last century . nno . SHIELD . AA as the Bro . Shield who set to music the " Ode to Masonry" of Bro . Dr . Brown , the ivell known composer ? The ode was performed on 5 th April , 1785 , at the dedication of the Phoenix Hall at Sunderland .
BIDEFORD LODGE . Bideford cannot boast of an unbroken succession . There was a Lodge there , formerly founded by Bro . John Wat-kins , LL . D ., in 1794 . He was an author . The present Bideford Lodge , called the Lodge of Benevolence , No . 719 , dates only from 1843 . AA e should like to know whether Bro . Jolm Watkins was buried at
Bideford , and whether he has any tomb there . COUNTIES WITHOUT ROYAL ARCH CHAPTERS . The English counties without Royal Arch Chapters are Bedfordshire , Buckinghamshire , Huntingdonshire , and Rutlandshire ; ancl the AVelsh counties are Cardiganshire , Radnorshire , Flintshire , Merionethshire , Anglesea . Brecon , and Carnarvonshire .
Our . NEGLECT OF THE CAPABILITIES OF BRICK . —Much of tlio architecture in Italy serves to force upon consideration our ignorant neglect of the real use of brick . You may there see the most varied aud beautiful inventions expressed in this material—mouldings , tracery , flowers , figures , everywhere varied , and showing visibly the movement of the hand aud feeling of tho heart . One would be clover
to discover a single expression of feeling or elevated effort in a whole mile of the brick or compo-frunted houses of our time . —The Builder . THE I (/ . _> u _ .., rc OF SCXEXMJ . —Tho sciences , like thoso who cultivate them , enjoy the . happy privilege that , in regard to them , there exist no national antipathies , nor even that kind of intellectual frontiers which , uv . der the influence of languages become established between the literature of different nations . They form a true
republic , whose peace nothing should ever disturb , and where merit alone leads to distinction , for the conferring of which there aro needed no formalities nor protecting regulations . The respect given to talent , like the esteem accorded to virtue is so inherent in our nature that it is not in our power to refuse it when it is really deserved . —Qnetelet . 4 o
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Notes And Queries.
MENDIZABAX . Mciiclijiahal , lately prime minister of Spain , was a Mason , and was persecuted on that ground . He assisted in the revival , on the restoration of the Constitution . LIONEL PARE 1 L . In Bulwer ' s last great novel , "AA hat will he do with it ? " Lionel Darell
is the name of a personage . Lionel Darell was J . G . AV , of England towards the close of the last century . nno . SHIELD . AA as the Bro . Shield who set to music the " Ode to Masonry" of Bro . Dr . Brown , the ivell known composer ? The ode was performed on 5 th April , 1785 , at the dedication of the Phoenix Hall at Sunderland .
BIDEFORD LODGE . Bideford cannot boast of an unbroken succession . There was a Lodge there , formerly founded by Bro . John Wat-kins , LL . D ., in 1794 . He was an author . The present Bideford Lodge , called the Lodge of Benevolence , No . 719 , dates only from 1843 . AA e should like to know whether Bro . Jolm Watkins was buried at
Bideford , and whether he has any tomb there . COUNTIES WITHOUT ROYAL ARCH CHAPTERS . The English counties without Royal Arch Chapters are Bedfordshire , Buckinghamshire , Huntingdonshire , and Rutlandshire ; ancl the AVelsh counties are Cardiganshire , Radnorshire , Flintshire , Merionethshire , Anglesea . Brecon , and Carnarvonshire .
Our . NEGLECT OF THE CAPABILITIES OF BRICK . —Much of tlio architecture in Italy serves to force upon consideration our ignorant neglect of the real use of brick . You may there see the most varied aud beautiful inventions expressed in this material—mouldings , tracery , flowers , figures , everywhere varied , and showing visibly the movement of the hand aud feeling of tho heart . One would be clover
to discover a single expression of feeling or elevated effort in a whole mile of the brick or compo-frunted houses of our time . —The Builder . THE I (/ . _> u _ .., rc OF SCXEXMJ . —Tho sciences , like thoso who cultivate them , enjoy the . happy privilege that , in regard to them , there exist no national antipathies , nor even that kind of intellectual frontiers which , uv . der the influence of languages become established between the literature of different nations . They form a true
republic , whose peace nothing should ever disturb , and where merit alone leads to distinction , for the conferring of which there aro needed no formalities nor protecting regulations . The respect given to talent , like the esteem accorded to virtue is so inherent in our nature that it is not in our power to refuse it when it is really deserved . —Qnetelet . 4 o