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BARRUEL'S MEMOlRh OF JACOBINISM.. 277
spirit. He will say some things not relevant to die Masonry
of this country; something which, the wickedness of " the
reign of terror" could better justify; but let him not be interrupted
or despised. He is not a man to declare, as undeniably
true, what he knows to be a gross error ;* nor to
mistake Free Masonry for evangelical truth.
CHAPTER XLV.
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The world is in pain '
" Our secrete to gain,
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And still let them wonder and gaze on;
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They ne'er can divine
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The word or the sign,
" Of a Free and an Accepted Mason;
44 Tie this and tis that,
41 They cannot tell what,
44 Nor why the great men of the nation
44 Should aprons put on,
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« With a Free and an Accepted Mason."—OW Song.
Abbi BarrueVs Memoirs of Jacobinism, vol. ii. p. 152.
CHAP. IX.—" During the last twenty years it was difficult,
especially in Paris, to meet persons who did not be-
k Sovereign inspector general; tradition of the master'p degree, p. 97
of this volume.