Mnemotechny, Or Art of Memory ...: With a Mnemotechnic DictionaryE. Churton, 1850 |
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... never had much respect for those beseeching , craving - your - attention sort of scribblers , who state very blandly in their Prefaces , that they have spent so much time , and so much money , in writing a book , all for the ...
... never had much respect for those beseeching , craving - your - attention sort of scribblers , who state very blandly in their Prefaces , that they have spent so much time , and so much money , in writing a book , all for the ...
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... never stand for figures . In the old Roman style of Notation , frequently used in numbering the chap- ters of books , the letter I. stands for 1 , V. for 5 , & c .; but we have T stand for 1 , and L for 5 , and use the V to represent 8 ...
... never stand for figures . In the old Roman style of Notation , frequently used in numbering the chap- ters of books , the letter I. stands for 1 , V. for 5 , & c .; but we have T stand for 1 , and L for 5 , and use the V to represent 8 ...
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... never have phrases that represent a cipher first . Song stands for the year that " Dionysius of Halicarnassus completed his history , " and as Song stands for 07 , the ci- pher before the 7 shows the event to have been before the ...
... never have phrases that represent a cipher first . Song stands for the year that " Dionysius of Halicarnassus completed his history , " and as Song stands for 07 , the ci- pher before the 7 shows the event to have been before the ...
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... never more than three figures ; consequently the figure 1 must not be pre- fixed to any events but Modern ones . All of the Modern dates between 1000 and 1200 are represented in full by the formulas , so that we can establish this rule ...
... never more than three figures ; consequently the figure 1 must not be pre- fixed to any events but Modern ones . All of the Modern dates between 1000 and 1200 are represented in full by the formulas , so that we can establish this rule ...
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... never being troubled with Tithe - paying . The Parliament first convened in Great Britain , dis- cussed the Science of War . Hamlet King of Denmark reigned , and led the Danes in War . Ghengis Khan Emperor of the Tartars , was A Heathen ...
... never being troubled with Tithe - paying . The Parliament first convened in Great Britain , dis- cussed the Science of War . Hamlet King of Denmark reigned , and led the Danes in War . Ghengis Khan Emperor of the Tartars , was A Heathen ...
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Popular passages
Page 248 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 267 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 265 - God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea; and other times to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book and sit him down and die.
Page 271 - The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation ; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Page 253 - O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 278 - O'er-run and trampled on : then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours ; For time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer : welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Page 271 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere, Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young...
Page 266 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Page 257 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 263 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour ! Enough ; no more : 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.