The Quarterly Magazine of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows, Manchester UnityG.M. and Board of Directors, 1860 - Fraternal organizations |
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... consider the propriety of peti- tioning Parliament for sundry alterations of the present law , it is desirable that the more intelligent members of the Order should direct their attention to its provisions , and carefully note down any ...
... consider the propriety of peti- tioning Parliament for sundry alterations of the present law , it is desirable that the more intelligent members of the Order should direct their attention to its provisions , and carefully note down any ...
Page 46
... considering the subject of payments and benefits in the Manchester Unity , the members may be divided into four classes , namely : -those who oppose any change , however necessary , because it is new , and refuse to reason upon it , for ...
... considering the subject of payments and benefits in the Manchester Unity , the members may be divided into four classes , namely : -those who oppose any change , however necessary , because it is new , and refuse to reason upon it , for ...
Page 47
... consider , be safely said we are now so far on the high road of improvement , we shall not think of halting till we have reached the desired end . By such apologetic answers we may for a time avoid the criticisms of our friends , but ...
... consider , be safely said we are now so far on the high road of improvement , we shall not think of halting till we have reached the desired end . By such apologetic answers we may for a time avoid the criticisms of our friends , but ...
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... considers it necessary that 4d . and 6d . contribution should be paid at those ages for certain benefits , how can ... consider , as an instance , a new lodge about to be opened , expected to consist of mixed members of the ordinary ...
... considers it necessary that 4d . and 6d . contribution should be paid at those ages for certain benefits , how can ... consider , as an instance , a new lodge about to be opened , expected to consist of mixed members of the ordinary ...
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... considering the relative positions of master and apprentice . With this sum of money the youth , then barely twenty - one , determined to begin the world . The Principality was not at that time wide enough for his ambition , so he ...
... considering the relative positions of master and apprentice . With this sum of money the youth , then barely twenty - one , determined to begin the world . The Principality was not at that time wide enough for his ambition , so he ...
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Page 321 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 319 - ... giveth himself as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. Counsel is of two sorts : the one concerning manners, the other concerning business. For the first, the best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
Page 320 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truths which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 319 - Dry light is ever the best," and certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another, is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment : which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.
Page 320 - ... hurtful and unsafe, though with good meaning, and mixed partly of mischief and partly of remedy; even as if you would call a physician that is thought good for the cure of the disease you complain of, but is unacquainted with your body, and therefore may put you in way for a present cure, but overthroweth your health in some other kind, and so cure the disease and kill the patient.
Page 320 - And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and...
Page 320 - A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Page 350 - Godiva, wife to that grim Earl, who ruled In Coventry; for when he laid a tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children, clamoring, "If we pay, we starve!
Page 271 - ATTEND, all ye who list to hear our noble England's praise ; I tell of the thrice famous deeds she wrought in ancient days, When that great fleet invincible against her bore in vain The richest spoils of Mexico, the stoutest hearts of Spain.
Page 81 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown ' That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me ! " LINES, SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, OF WHITEFORD, BART.