Artificial Memory: the Grand Method of Making a Bad Memory Good, and a Good Memory Betterauthor, 1873 - 75 páginas |
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A. L. BANCROFT alphabet artificial memory aids association attention BAD MEMORY BANCROFT & CO blacksmith brain brance chair CHAPTER cheese chestnut-tree commencing commit to memory connect crowned depends upon memory distracting ditch facts faculties Fife figures into words fire forgetfulness frog genius hair horse ideas II crowned imagine jail judge knuckle last consonant leap a wall letter look magpie Market street means MEMORY BETTER MENTAL PICTURING method middle-finger mind and memory MNEMONIC mnemonist mode month NEMOS number of words octave oil-coat once palace piece of poetry proceed Red Sea remem remembering the number remembering words represented rope SAN FRANCISCO shave shoe shot similar sounds smithy soap stands STATIONERY student subdued sound subtract suggest Sunday supposed tain Take thought tion tooth towel translate vivid vowels
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Página 38 - The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Página 73 - What a bliss to press the pillow Of a cottage-chamber bed, And to listen to the patter Of the soft rain overhead! Every tinkle on the shingles Has an echo in the heart; And a thousand dreamy fancies Into busy being start...
Página 8 - But there is yet a greater instance of intellectual unity, than even all these combined. JOHANNES, well known in Trinity College, Dublin, was nearly blind ; and yet he could answer the question relative to the name of the day of the week, on which any day of the month fell in any year, whether in the new or the old style, instanter ; — and BUXTON, the calculating peasant, could give the product of any arithmetical question, by the simple operation of his mind, as well as the best calculator could...
Página 64 - ... twenty-eight years, which would, but for the leap-years, recur in seven years, and hence the Solar Cycle (see PERIOD). The dominical letters were first introduced into the calendar by the early Christians, to displace the nundinal letters in the Roman calendar. They are of use as a means of discovering on what day of the week any day of the month falls in a given year (see EASTER). Rules and tables for finding" them are given in praver-books, breviaries, &c., as well as in works on dates.
Página 3 - Systematic Memory. Or How to Make a Bad Memory Good and a Good Memory better. By Thos.
Página 64 - Wednesday third day, Thursday fourth day, Friday fifth day, Saturday sixth day.
Página 61 - Edward I Edward II Edward III Richard II Henry IV Henry V Henry VI Edward IV Richard III Henry VII...
Página 16 - ... the faculty upon which the other operations of the mind wholly rest and depend.