Sublime friendship delineated [electronic resource] : Containing, an enquiry into the nature and object of friendship; the qualities necessary to form it; characters of the persons with whom it may be contracted, and the duties it perscribes to us. A compendious account of the most principal orders of Knightwood. Of the essens, a sect of Jewish philosophers, remarkable fro their mutual brotherly love. Of the society of ancient freemasons from their first institution; their establishment in England and Ireland, and the various persecutions they suffered on the continent. The distintion between ancient and modern freemasonary. The constitutions of the ancient and most benevolent order of friendly brothers of Saint Patrick. Compiled by John Donovan.