Volume 1

The new art of memory, founded upon the principles taught by M. Gregor von Feinaigle / to which are added some account of the principal systems of artificial memory. From the earliest period to the present time ; illustrated by engravings.

  • Feinaigle, Gregor von, 1765?-1819.
Date:
1812
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    the sounding of’ the clock, prompts the recol- lection of the business I had resolved to perform at these times. A glimpse of the first words of a paragraph, ‘ora page, introduces the recollec- tion of the whole: Ina word, we must connect the things we wish to remember with the imme- diate objects of our senses, that offer themselves daily to our attention, but particularly with the objects of our sight, the most vigorous and lively of all our senses, and of which the objects are, perhaps, more numerous than those of all our other senses put together. — “This theory is the foundation of all contri- vances which have been, or, perhaps, can be, employed to help recollection. It is the ground- work of the famous artificial memory of Simo- NIDES, a lyric poet, of the island of Ceos, one of the Cyclades, who flourished in the sixty-first olympiad, about five hundred and _ thirty-five years before the birth of Christ, and [who] is ce- lebrated by Cicero and QuincTiLiaN. Both these authors relate the following mythological incident, on the occasion which suggested the invention. Simonides was employed by Scopas, a rich Thessalian, to compose a panegyric on him for a certain sum of money ; was invited to a’ festival, given by Scopas to his friends, i in order to icheites it, but was sordidly refused more than half the stipulated compensation, —be- cause puzzled, perhaps, with the sterility of the BS |
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