The art of memory. : A treatise useful for all, especially such as are to speak in public... / By Marius D'Assigny.

  • Marius D'Assigny
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1699
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    There are likewife three differing A&ts of ‘this Faculty, tho fome reckon but two3 ft, That which we properly call Memory, /. i Which is a Retention of the Ideas of things” frefhing thofe Ideas that are there clofered ~ up. 34, Reminifcentia, which is a Reco- very. of the {ame Ideas which were former- . Jy loft, or.a renewing of thofe Impreffions 7- in the Memory that were blotted out, or idefac'd by Forgetfulnefs. The firft may’ ibe found in fome meafure in the Brutes, ical Retention of the Objects that are either fgrateful.or hurtful to their Natures; fo that the prefence of thofe things caufe them leither to\fly from, or to run to them, having had a former fenfe of their good , differs in this from that of Man, in thac it irequires the prefence of the Objects to mind perfect and excellence Affiftances, needs not the Reprefentation of Things to remem- ber the former Paffages; neither is his Me- mory fo narrow, fo weak and infirm, as rhat of che Brutes. But the two latter Acts of Memory are not to be found in ihem, becaufe they epee on the reafoning | Oo He | tas | Neha th> | Sok Tea OTP NE eS ae es : SS > p> famaaee St Mea 7 Pe acter RIN eAER TATE icra tae IN ee i ' i] oe u 7 it i . / ! a Oe Sn > ccs pant nu ie nin ID wy E : 1 p iy 4 fll q = EBT 5 atl RAR CAR Be RU ATSB REN NT were ae oe as pe iin Ae Pe