A candid disquisition of the principles and practices of the Most Ancient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons : together with some strictures on the origin, nature, and design of the institution (1769)
Calcott, Wellins · London : Printed for the author by Brother James Dixwell · leaf 199
r vene-rable inllitution •, certain I am, ifthis eflablifhment Hiould ever be held in littleefteem by the members, it muft be ov/ing to thewant of a due fenfe of the excellence of its prin-ciples, and the falutary laws and focial duties onv/hich it is founded. But fometimes mere curiofity, views of… … ( I6I ) our community, this together with an unpardonableinattention of thofe who propofed them, to theirlives and converfations have conflantly occafion-ed great difcredit and uneafinefs to the craftyfuch perfons being no ways qualified for a focietyfounded upon wifdom, and cemented by moralityand…
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