{"id":39,"date":"2012-12-14T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/georgemarkhamtweddell\/2012\/12\/14\/tales-poems-and-masonic-papers-by-emra-holmes-tweddell-publication-1877\/"},"modified":"2012-12-14T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T19:20:00","slug":"tales-poems-and-masonic-papers-by-emra-holmes-tweddell-publication-1877","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/georgemarkhamtweddell\/2012\/12\/14\/tales-poems-and-masonic-papers-by-emra-holmes-tweddell-publication-1877\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales, Poems and Masonic Papers by Emra Holmes (Tweddell Publication 1877)"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Markham Tweddell<\/b> (1823 – 1903) was, among his many activities for the betterment of humanity, openly a life long member of the Loyal Cleveland Lodge of Freemasons in Stokesley. His wide ranging poetry included the book One Hundred Masonic Sonnets<\/b> – made available for view here  – http:\/\/tweddellmasonicsonnets.blogspot.com\/<\/a>  <\/b>He was intensely proud of the Craft and its principles  – in the introduction William Andrews writes –<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Brother Tweddell is sincere in his enthusiasm for the Craft. “Freemasonry” says he in his preface ” is dearer to me than any other thing I know of, because, in my conception of it, it comprises all true religion and morality ; all family, social and national duties; all genuine philanthropy, literature, science, and art ; in brief, all that can endear man to man, and make us more like the Grand Geometrician of the Universe, in whose service alone is felicity for the human race.” This is a far loftier ideal of freemasonry than we are wont to find even among Masonic enthusiasts; and yet, without going as far as the talented author of these sonnets, we readily admit that there is a vast amount of truth in it; Freemasonry is capable of making men good and noble; it could not be otherwise what it is claimed to be  – a system of morality<\/i>“<\/span>
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\nHis sonnets therefore outline his ideal for Freemasonry.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAlthough the principles of freemasonry imbue much of Tweddell’s work, other works specifically aimed at the Masonic brotherhood included <\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe Odd Fellows Reciter and Fireside Companion <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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\nTALES, POEMS AND MASONIC PAPERS BY EMRA HOLMES<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\nPublished 1877 by Tweddell and Sons.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nYou can view the book on line here http:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/talespoemsmasoni00holm#page\/n0\/mode\/2up<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nOr download it via this page on Open Library – in right hand side bar click PDF and download free.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nContents of this book are below <\/span><\/div>\n
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George Markham Tweddell (1823 – 1903) was, among his many activities for the betterment of humanity, openly a life long member of the Loyal Cleveland Lodge of Freemasons in Stokesley. His wide ranging poetry included the book One Hundred Masonic Sonnets – made available for view here  – http:\/\/tweddellmasonicsonnets.blogspot.com\/  He was intensely proud of the Craft and its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/georgemarkhamtweddell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/georgemarkhamtweddell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/georgemarkhamtweddell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/georgemarkhamtweddell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/georgemarkhamtweddell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/georgemarkhamtweddell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/georgemarkhamtweddell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/georgemarkhamtweddell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/georgemarkhamtweddell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}