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Usage examples of instruments.

But other saints who are moved by God as separated and not united instruments, receive power in a particular manner in order to bring about this or that act.

Just as the one same power of the principal agent is instrumentally in all the instruments that are ordained unto the production of an effect, forasmuch as they are one as being so ordained: so also the one same sacramental power is in both words and things, forasmuch as words and things combine to form one sacrament.

Consequently, it is thus that Christ works in the sacraments, both by wicked men as lifeless instruments, and by good men as living instruments.

The same principal agent uses various instruments unto various effects, in accordance with the thing to be done.

And the more mighty the operation, so much the mightier instruments does the principal agent require.

For instrumental power lies in several instruments through which the chief agent acts.

They are three: The vigor of the mental movement in general, its strength upon the imaginative and sentimental side, and the suggestion from the environment in the way of musical instruments of adequate tonal powers.

Such instruments never existed in the history of the art until about the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Hence in the pages following, the instruments peculiar to each epoch will receive the attention their importance deserves, which is considerably more than that usually allotted them in concise accounts of the history of this art.

The composers of the music of ancient Greece had for instruments only lyres of six or eight strings, with little vibrative power.

After ten centuries of use every suggestion in the compass of these instruments to furnish, had been carried out.

Egypt were the elegantly colored and ornamented priestly instruments which Bruce found in what was afterward discovered to be the tomb of Rameses III, at Biban-El-Moulouk.

Several complete instruments have been found, which, although dating most likely from a period near the Christian era, are nevertheless sufficiently like the representations of ten centuries earlier to make them instructive as well as interesting.

Several of these instruments have been found in a very respectable state of preservation.

They had drums of many kinds, but as none of these instruments have reference to the development of the higher art of music, we do not delay to describe them.