Discourses, delivered on public occasions : illustrating the principles, displaying the tendency, and vindicating the design, of Free masonry . s. It is thusdefcribed by Olaus Wormius : Bacillus eftquadratus trium poUicum longitudine ; lat-itudine tertia parte poUicis ; latera quatuorcharacteribus inlignita habens ; expruno fyl-veftri, ut videtur, fabricatus.* A FIGURE of one he has given may be feenin the plate, F, f. He fuppofes the letters tobe amatorial, and fo written as to convey inan intricate, or anagrammatic, manner thename of the lover, in a fentiment of attach-ment intelligible to a
Discourses, delivered on public occasions : illustrating the principles, displaying the tendency, and vindicating the design, of Free masonry . s. It is thusdefcribed by Olaus Wormius : Bacillus eftquadratus trium poUicum longitudine ; lat-itudine tertia parte poUicis ; latera quatuorcharacteribus inlignita habens ; expruno fyl-veftri, ut videtur, fabricatus.* A FIGURE of one he has given may be feenin the plate, F, f. He fuppofes the letters tobe amatorial, and fo written as to convey inan intricate, or anagrammatic, manner thename of the lover, in a fentiment of attach-ment intelligible to all. The words on the tejfera amatoria or bacillusywhich he has defcribed are : Bynaffa viiet hierejla muia affThenkejlol inde Latidian.* Nomen meum novit amiciffima meaEx amoris hac teflera Landum. • IHsnummU Dankorum lib, xvii. 328 Dijfertatwn^ Isc, « Bleft be the pledge, whofe kind enchantment givesTo wounded Jove the food on which it Uves !Rich in this gift, though cruel ocean bearThe youth to exile from his faithful fair,He in fond dreams hangs oer her glowing owns her prefent, and ftill hears her fpeak. Hayley. ^^kP-^. LIST OF. SUBSCRIBERS. ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND APOLOGY SUBSCRIBERS. To the refpefted officers and mem-bers of the GRAND LODGE, and to mybeloved brethren of the feveral lodgesthroughout the Commonwealth, my grate-ful acknowledgments are due for the kindencouragement and liberal patronage theyhave given to this work. This inftance oftheir benevolent attention, added to thevarious other favors they have heaped uponme, affects me fenfibly. I wifh I could bet-ter exprefs and better repay my hope they will not be altogether difappoint-cd in the volume ; and that it may prove A MONUMENT OF MY GRATITUDE TO THEM,AND OF MT ATTACHMENT TO MASONRY. I REGRET that, fubfcription papers nothaving been returned in feafon, the lift ofSubfcribers is fo very imperfeft. It com-prifcs but about half the lodges. I haveheard repeatedly of the encouragement tli
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