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5595. MUSIC, Passion for.—

If there is a
gratification which I envy any people in this
world, it is to your country [France] its music.
This is the favorite passion of my soul, and
fortune has cast my lot in a country where
it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.—
To—. Washington ed. i, 209. Ford ed., ii, 158.
(Wg. 1778)