Routledge's Manual of Etiquette eBook

George Routledge
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 212 pages of information about Routledge's Manual of Etiquette.

Routledge's Manual of Etiquette eBook

George Routledge
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 212 pages of information about Routledge's Manual of Etiquette.

    Every brother who maintains a consistency in love and
    sincerity in friendship.

    Every worthy brother who was at first duly prepared, and whose
    heart still retains an awful regard to the three great lights
    of masonry.

    Golden eggs to every brother, and goldfinches to our lodges.

    Honour and influence to every public-spirited brother.

    All freeborn sons of the ancient and honourable craft.

    May the square, plumb-line, and level regulate the conduct of
    every brother.

    May the morning have no occasion to censure the night spent by
    freemasons.

    May the hearts of freemasons agree, although their heads
    should differ.

    May every mason participate in the happiness of a brother.

    May every brother have a heart to feel and a hand to give.

    May discord, party rage, and insolence be for ever rooted out
    from among masons.

    May covetous cares be unknown to freemasons.

    May all freemasons go hand in hand in the road of virtue.

    May we be more ready to correct our own faults than to publish
    the errors of a brother.

    May the prospect of riches never induce a mason to do that
    which is repugnant to virtue.

    May unity and love be ever stamped upon the mason’s mind.

    May no freemason desire plenty but with the benevolent view to
    relieve the indigent.

    May no freemason wish for more liberty than constitutes
    happiness, nor more freedom than tends to the public good.

    May the deformity of vice in other men teach a mason to abhor
    it in himself.

    May the cares which haunt the heart of the covetous be unknown
    to the freemason.

    Prosperity to masons and masonry

    Relief to all indigent brethren.

    To the secret and silent.

    The great lodge of England.

    The great lodge of Scotland.

    To the memory of him who first planted the vine.

    To the perpetual honour of freemasons.

    The masters and wardens of all regular lodges.

    To all masons who walk by the line.

    To the memory of the Tyrian artist.

    May all freemasons live in love and die in peace.

    May love animate the heart of every mason.

    May all freemasons ever taste and relish the sweets of
    freedom.

* * * * *

MILITARY.

    May our commanders have the eye of a Hawke and the heart of a
    Wolfe.

    To the memory of Wellington and all like him.

    Chelsea Hospital and its supporters.

    To the memory of Sir Thomas Picton, and all our brave
    countrymen who fell at Waterloo.

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