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Francis Bacon:
"Lucid intervals and happy pauses." "History of King Henry VII"(1622).
"Nay, number (itself) in armies, importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for (as Virgil saith) it never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be." "Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral" (1597), XXIX: "Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates."
We have also sound houses, where we practice and demonstrate all sounds and their generation. We have harmonies which you have not, of quarter sounds and lesser slides of sounds. Divers instruments of music likewise to you unknown, some sweeter than any you have; together with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet. We represent small sounds as…
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