Mnemonics Applied to the Acquisition of Knowledge: Or, The Art of Memory

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S. N. Dickinson, 1848 - 100 頁
 

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第 17 頁 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf, to make an apple pie ; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. What ! no soap?
第 72 頁 - Lindsays' pride ; But never have I told thee yet How the great Marquis died ! A traitor sold him to his foes ; O deed of deathless shame ! I charge thee, boy, if e'er thou meet With one of Assynt's name — Be it upon the mountain's side, Or yet within the glen, Stand he in martial gear alone, Or backed by...
第 72 頁 - gainst treason's might, This hand hath always striven, And ye raise it up for a witness still In the eye of earth and heaven. Then nail my head on yonder tower — Give every town a limb — And God who made shall gather them : I go from you to Him...
第 1 頁 - Nor love of novelty alone inspires Their laws and nice dependencies to scan; For, mindful of the aids that life requires, And of the services man owes to man, He meditates new arts on Nature's plan; The cold desponding breast of sloth to warm, The flame of industry and genius fan, And emulation's noble rage alarm, And the long hours of toil and solitude to charm. But she, who set on fire his infant heart, And all his dreams and all his wanderings shared, And bless'd the Muse and her celestial art,...
第 15 頁 - The love of gold grows faster than the heap of acquisition; the love of praise increases by every gratification till it stings like an adder and bites like a serpent; till the man is miserable every moment when he does not snuff the incense.
第 13 頁 - OF WISDOM !* thou, whose sway The throng'd ideal hosts obey ; Who bid'st their ranks, now vanish, now appear, Flame in the van, or darken in the rear ; Accept this votive verse. Thy reign Nor place can fix, nor power restrain. All, all is thine. For thee, the ear and eye Rove through the realms of grace and harmony : The senses thee spontaneous serve, That wake, and thrill through every nerve.
第 5 頁 - 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.
第 31 頁 - Genius, unexerted, is like the poor moth that flutters around a candle till it scorches itself to death. If genius be desirable at all, it is only of that great and magnanimous kind, which, like the condor of South America, pitches from the summit of Chimborazo, above the clouds, and...
第 72 頁 - O deed of deathless shame ! I charge thee, boy, if e'er thou meet With one of Assynt's name — Be it upon the mountain's side, Or yet within the glen, Stand he in martial gear alone, Or backed by armed men — Face him, as thou wouldst face the man Who wronged thy sire's renown : Remember of what blood thou art, And strike the caitiff down...
第 54 頁 - Constitution in a Congress, consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives. The Senate consists of two members from each State, chosen by the State Legislatures for six years.

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