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A LECTURE ON THE VARIOUS -RITUALS OF FREEMASONRY FROM THE TENTH CENTURY
Delivered in the Witham Lodge, LincoIn, 1863, by
THE REV. G. OLIVER, D.D.
PAST D.P.G.M. FOR LINCOLNSHIRE;
Honorary Member of numerous Lodges and Literary Societies in various parts of the World.
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CANTO I
IN the midway of this our mortal life,
I found me in a gloomy wood, astray
Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell
It were no easy task, how savage wild
That forest, how robust and rough its growth,
Which to remember only, my dismay
Renews, in bitterness not far from death.
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When Lionel Giles began his translation of Sun Tzu’s ART OF
WAR, the work was virtually unknown in Europe. Its introduction
to Europe began in 1782 when a French Jesuit Father living in
China, Joseph Amiot, acquired a copy of it, and translated it
into French. It was not a good translation because, according to
Dr. Giles, “[I]t contains a great deal that Sun Tzu did not
write, and very little indeed of what he did.”
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