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T HE
TATLER;
Or, LUCUBRATIONS of
ISAAC BICKERSTAFF, Esq;
VOLUME the FIRST.
LONDON:
Printed for JACOB and RICHARD TONSON.
MDCCLIX.
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Possibly the first mention of Freemasonry in a newspaper:
"They have their signs and tokens like Free-masons...." [vol. i, p. 231. (No. 26 Thursday, June 9, 1709)]
"All persons of Quality admire me; though, rot me, if I value a blue garter any more than I do a blue apron." [vol. ii, p. 191. (No. 73 Tuesday, September 27, 1709)]
"You may see them at first sight grow acquainted by sympathy ; insomuch that one had not studied Nature, and did not know the true cause of their sudden familiarities, would think that they had some secret intimation of each other, like the Free-masons." [vol. iii, p. 333. (No. 166 Tuesday, May 2, 1710)]
Text excerpted from 1759 edition, regular s substituted for the long s. Different capitalization referenced in: AQC 111 (1998) p. 11.
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