Annals, Compiled from Records in the British Museum; the Bodleian Library, Oxford; the Public Record Office, London; the Chapter Books of the Cathedral; the Council Book of the Corporation of Cork; and Other Authentic Sources |
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Seite 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.
Seite xiv - 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.
Seite 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.
Seite xiv - ... who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 81 - The writer of the above seems to have forgotten the story of Lady Aldworth, which is thus related in Dr. Caulfield's very interesting Annal* of St. Fin Barre, Cork, 1871 :— "1775. 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 82 - ... scissors, to pick a brick from the wall, and actually witnessed the awful and mysterious ceremony through the two first steps. Curiosity gratified, fear at once took possession of her mind, and those who understand this passage well know what the feelings must be of any person wno could have the same opportunity of unlawfully beholding that ceremony.
Seite 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...