A Course of six Lessons on the New Art of Memory, Phrenotypics; or, Brain Printing; and mental improvement |
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Page 4 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 65 - ... no, your own repetition of it will be an improvement to yourself; and this practice also will furnish you with a variety of words, and copious language to express your thoughts upon all occasions. 3. Commit to writing some of the most considerable improvements which you daily make, at least such hints as may recall them again to your mind, when perhaps they are vanished and lost. And here I think Mr.
Page 66 - To shorten something of this labour, if the books which you read are your own, mark with a pen or pencil, the most considerable things in them which you desire to remember. Thus you may read that book the second time over with half the trouble, by your eye running over the paragraphs which your pencil has noted.
Page 65 - At the end of every week, or month, or year, you may review your remarks for these reasons : first, to judge of your own improvement; when you shall find that many of your younger collections are either weak and trifling ; or if they are just and proper, yet they are...
Page 65 - ... many of your younger collections are either weak and trifling; or if they are just and proper, yet they are grown now so familiar to you, that you will thereby see your own advancement in knowledge. And in the next place what remarks you find there worthy of your riper observation, you may note them with a marginal star, instead of transcribing them, as being worthy of your second year's review, when the others are neglected.
Page 4 - Each indiviual study consists of a greater or less number of such couples to lie made indissolubly to stick together. The process, then, of committing to memory and recollecting, consists of the following three stages : — 1. It must be agreed upon which two notions should always follow one another. 2. The two notions of the thus agreed upon couple must be stuck together, and impressed upon the brain ; and, 3. One of these two notions must be given, in order that the other may spring up before the...
Page 39 - When you have a long series of figures to learn, all that will be necessary for you to do, will be to...
Page 27 - Now you will find that the shorter the phrenotypic distance is between two given notions, the more rapidly and more strongly they will become connected, and adhere to each other.
Page 50 - Genera placed together, on the same principle, constitute an order, and orders unite to form classes.
Page 49 - In studying geography, it will be necessary for you first to connect the outline of a country with its name. This will...