Preface

Dear Read­ers:–The Gentleman’s Jour­nal has evolved over the course of the last sev­eral years into some­thing wholly sep­a­rate from it’s ini­tial pur­pose. Hav­ing been started as a place to dis­cuss “all things under the sun” within the con­text of Roman dogma, doc­trine, dis­ci­pline, and tra­di­tion, it has slowly become less ped­a­gog­i­cal and more per­sonal – show­cas­ing my cre­ative writ­ing, opin­ion pieces, and love of Eighteenth-​century Eng­lish Lan­guage and Lit­er­a­ture. It has taken on the vis­age of an Eighteenth-​century jour­nal, the sort that might have been con­tributed to by Addison, Steele, and John­son; edited by Cave; and pub­lished by Lintot.

Orig­i­nally enti­tled the The Daily P.E.E.P.–Pro Eccle­sia Et Pon­tif­ice, for Church and Pope – it has with­drawn from the tumul­tuous chaos of that con­flict which is presently being waged within the Roman Church. The Edi­tor has relin­quished the enter­tain­ment of Holy Orders that once pos­sessed him and he has taken to sec­u­lar sub­jects, where reli­gious ones have taxed his patience and energies.

The fore­see­able future does not promise any more like evo­lu­tions and the present form and con­tent of the jour­nal is as it will remain.

Yr Most Hum­ble & Obt Svt,
Adam Mitchell Bernard Bond

Some Pre­lim­i­nary Remarks -

Api­ar­ian Sym­bol­ism — A brief his­tory of the bee in sym­bolic usage.

About the Editors -

The Pedant’s Law -

Retired Prefa­tory Texts for The Gentleman’s Jour­nal and it’s fore­run­ner The Daily P.E.E.P. -

Mast­head -