This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...power. He remembered the whole, not the parts. To recover a passage or sentence, he was obliged to return to the beginning. In literature and art, memory is a synonyme for invention; it is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins HOW TO SORT OUR THOUGHTS. 107 are empty. The saying of Reynolds ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...power. He remembered the whole, not the parts. To recover a passage or sentence, he was obliged to return to the beginning. In literature and art, memory is a synonyme for invention; it is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins HOW TO SORT OUR THOUGHTS. 107 are empty. The saying of Reynolds has the force of an axiom: "Genius may anticipate the season of maturity; but in the education of a people, as in that of an individual, memory must be exercised before the powers of reason and fancy can be expanded; nor may the artist hope to equal or surpass, till he has learned to imitate the works of his predecessors." Mozart studied the productions of every renowned composer with intense industry. The memory must be educated in order to be useful. A straggling and open field of learning affords poor and insufficient pasturage; boundary lines are indispensable. As Shenstone said, our thoughts and observations should be sorted. This art of cultivation may be condensed into four rules--1. The habit of fixing the mind, like the eye, upon one object. 2. The application of the powers of reflection. 3. The watchfulness of understanding, which is known, in a good sense, as curiosity. 4. Method. After every effort and precaution, memory is that delicate hand of the intellect which seems to be most susceptible of violence or disease; its fine nerves quickly lose their energy, and cease to obey the impulse of the mind. The muscular sense of the member decays and vanishes. Locke has illustrated the varying strength and duration of this faculty (Human Understanding, ch. x. sec. 5) by a metaphor, unsurpassed in our language for beauty of conception, aptness of application, and completeness of structure: --" Our minds represent to us thos...
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Add this copy of Summer Time in the Country to cart. $34.81, good condition, Sold by John C. Newland rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cheltenham, Glos., UNITED KINGDOM, published 1858 by George Routledge.
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Used-Good. Good hardback in green cloth with gilt; aeg. Some scattered light foxing; cloth worn at head & foot of spine; elaborate gilt on front board bright. With illustrations by Birket Foster & others.
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Add this copy of Summer Time in the Country to cart. $75.00, very good condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1858 by Routledge.
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Near fine. Many engravings, some by Birket Foster. 8vo, ornately gilt cloth; (dampstained in margins). London: George Routledge, 1858. First Illustrated Edition. Near Fine. "Willmott's literary work showed wide reading and a pleasant imagination..." DNB XXI, p.500.
