THE STONEMASONS OF GERMANY.
153
Stock does not give the lecture in full, but as a good
example of the oration common on such occasions, I now transcribe that of the smiths,^
It contains excellent
also formerly in close union with the masons, as would naturally occur.
and some lessons in morality (to which occasional attention will be directed
rules for conduct,
with
connection
arcliitecture.
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Although couched in rude language, it is brimming over with the rather
wit of our German cousins. Berlepsch admits that some of the allusions point to
ponderous
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