Free-masons

San Cristobal and Tezcuco, and soon arrived at Tulanzingo, where the great battle of the Free-masons was fought, and where eight poor fellows lost their lives in the bloody encounter.

Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Robert A. Wilson

Free-masons and workmen, in the Rue Lepelletier, issuing his last instructions for the morrow.

Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg

I am not a Free-mason, but I am told that there is among Free-masons that friendly feeling which makes them understand each other to whatever race they belong and from whatever surroundings they are taken.

Free Masonry of Empire 1930

He must be obedient to the Master without argument or murmuring, respectful to all Free-masons, courteous, avoiding obscene or uncivil speech, free from slander, dissension, or dispute.

The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry Joseph Fort Newton 1913

Here we have a glimpse of the methods of the Free-masons, of their organization, almost military in its order and dispatch, and of their migratory life; although they had a more settled life than this ungainly sentence allows, for long time was required for the building of a great cathedral.

The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry Joseph Fort Newton 1913

No member of a local Guild could undertake work outside his town, but had to hold himself in readiness to repair the castle or town walls, whereas Free-masons journeyed the length and breadth of the land wherever their labor called them.

The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry Joseph Fort Newton 1913

For the Free-masons, be it once more noted, were not only artists doing a more difficult and finished kind of work, but an intellectual order, having a great tradition of science and symbolism which they guarded.

The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry Joseph Fort Newton 1913

The second of these volumes also contains an essay on "Operative Free-masons," by Thomas Carr, with a list of lodges, and

The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry Joseph Fort Newton 1913

They may not have been actually called Free-masons as early as Leader Scott insists they were, [65] but _they were free in fact_, traveling far and near where there was work to do, following the missionaries of the Church as far as England.

The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry Joseph Fort Newton 1913

Employed for years on the same building, and living together in the Lodge, it is not strange that Free-masons came to know and love one another, and to have a feeling of loyalty to their craft, unique, peculiar, and enduring.

The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry Joseph Fort Newton 1913