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Page xv - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Page xiv - The life of these men is finely described in holy writ by " the path of an arrow," which is immediately closed up and lost.
Page xiv - Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person but that he was born upon one day and died upon another ; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind.
Page xiv - I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes; I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page xiv - I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died...
Page 82 - The young lady having distinctly heard voices and prompted by the curiosity natural to all to see somewhat of this mystery so long and so secretly locked up from public view, she had the courage with her scissors to pick a brick from the wall and actually witnessed the awful and mysterious ceremony through the first two steps.
Page xiv - ... and women, friends and enemies, priests and soldiers, monks and prebendaries, were crumbled amongst one another, and blended together in the same common mass ; how beauty, strength, and youth, with old age, weakness, and deformity, lay undistinguished in the same promiscuous heap of matter. After having thus surveyed this great magazine of mortality, as it were, in the lump, I examined it more particularly by the accounts which I found on several of the monuments which are raised in every quarter...
Page 81 - The Hon. Mrs. Aldworth, aged 80 years, buried. Mrs. Aldworth was daughter of Arthur Lord Doneraile, by Eliza, daughter of John Hayes, of Winchelsea, in the county of Sussex, Esq. This lady justly ranks amongst the most remarkable persons of her time. The following account of her connexion with the Masonic body is from a rare tract, published in Cork in 1811, and subsequently a few copies were struck off in 1869 for members of the family : ' Lord Doneraile, Mrs. Aldworth's father, who was...
Page 82 - ... of the solemn ceremony she had unlawfully witnessed. This she consented to, and they conducted the beautiful and terrified young lady through those trials which are sometimes more than enough for masculine resolution, little thinking they were taking into the bosom of their craft a member that would afterwards reflect a lustre on the annals of masonry.
Page xiv - ... or skull intermixed with a kind of fresh mouldering earth, that some time or other had a place in the composition of a human body. Upon this I began to consider with myself what innumerable multitudes of people lay confused...