Campanalogia : $b or The art of ringing improved : with plain and easie rules to guide the practitioner in the ringing all kinds of changes, to which is added, great variety of new peals.Stedman, Fabian
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Campanalogia : $b or The art of ringing improved : with plain and easie rules to guide the practitioner in the ringing all kinds of changes, to which is added, great variety of new peals.
Stedman, Fabian
Bells; Change ringing
not speak the like numbers of words under forty years and upwards, each
of them speaking 15000 every hour, and twelve hours every day. These
prodigious numbers are the more to be admired, considering that the
greatest number of letters in any of them, exceeds not twelve, neither
are two letters of one sort in any one of them: but by producing and
varying all the greater quantities, and placing two or more letters of
one sort, or two of one sort and two of another, with all variety of the
like nature that commonly happens in words, the numbers arising thereby
would infinitely exceed the former; And if all the numbers of every
quantity of letters from one to twenty four, together with all the
variety as aforesaid, were methodically drawn out and varied according
to the rules of this Art; which might easily be performed in respect of
the plain and practical method of doing it; but the infinite numbers of
them would not permit a Million of men to effect it in some thousands of
years: it would be evident, that there is no word or syllable in any
language or speech in the world, which can be exprest with the character
of our _Alphabet_, but might be found _literatim_ and entire therein;
and more by many thousands of Millions than can be pronounced, or that
ever were yet made use of in any language.
I will here give one instance of another kind, shewing the admirable
effects of this Art, and so conclude. A man having twenty Horses,
contracts with a Brick-maker to give him one hundred pound Sterling;
conditionally that the Brick-maker will deliver him as many Loads of
Bricks, as there are several Teams of six Horses to be produced out of
the aforesaid twenty to fetch them, and not one Team or Sett of six
Horses to fetch two Loads. The Brick-maker might be thought to have made
a very advantageous bargain, but the contrary will appear. For there are
thirty eight thousand seven hundred and sixty several Teams of six
Horses, to be produced out of twenty, and not twice six the same Horses;
then the Brick-maker must deliver as many Loads as there are Teams, and
each Load consisting of five hundred Bricks, the whole would amount to
19380000, which being bought for one hundred pounds as aforesaid, would
not cost above five Farthings a thousand; and at the rate of thirteen
shillings and four pence the thousand, they amount to twelve thousand
nine hundred and twenty pounds Sterling. But should a contract be made
with the Brick-maker to deliver as many Loads of Bricks, as there are
Teams of six Horses in each, to be produced out of the aforesaid twenty,
which shall stand in the Cart in a differing manner; that is to say,
although there may be the same Horses in several Teams, yet their places
shall be so changed, that they shall not stand twice alike in any two
Teams. On this account the Brick-maker must deliver seven hundred and
twenty times as many as before; for there are 38760 several Teams as
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