Assimilative Memory; or, How to Attend and Never ForgetLoisette, A. (Alphonse)
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Assimilative Memory; or, How to Attend and Never Forget
Loisette, A. (Alphonse)
Mnemonics
1. What is thereby secured?
2. Is the remembrance of the first impression assured?
3. What other great advantage does the method of Interrogative
Analysis give?
4. Are all well-informed persons good talkers?
5. If not, why?
6. In conversation, in what state are their minds apt to remain?
7. Do any trains of thought arise in their own minds?
8. What does the practice of Interrogative Analysis compel such
persons to do?
9. What do teachers often complain of?
10. What is the cause?
11. What does my method show them?
12. Can they help practising it?
13. Do I not fully illustrate my method?
14. Does not the pupil gain confidence by practising this method?
15. Does not the habit of active thinking thereby grow upon him?
The following sentence will be made use of as an example for practice. I
deal with it by the Analytic-Synthetic, and also by the Interrogative
Analysis methods.
"The Devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice,
An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice!"
1. The Devil hath an arrow. 2. The Devil hath _not_ an arrow. 3. The
Devil hath not an arrow _for the heart_. 4. The Devil hath not an arrow
for the heart _like a voice_. 5. The Devil hath not an arrow for the
heart like a _sweet_ voice. 6. The Devil hath not, _in his choice_, an
arrow for the heart like a sweet voice. 7. The Devil hath not, in his
_quiver's_ choice, an arrow for the heart like a sweet voice. 8. The
Devil hath not, in _all_ his quiver's choice, an arrow for the heart
like a sweet voice.
THE SAME BY INTERROGATIVE ANALYSIS.
1. _Who_ hath not in all his quiver's choice an arrow for the heart like
a sweet voice? The _Devil_ hath not, in all his quiver's choice, an
arrow for the heart like a sweet voice. 2. Hath the Devil in all his
quiver's choice an arrow for the heart like a sweet voice? The Devil
hath _not_, in all his quiver's choice, an arrow for the heart like a
sweet voice. 3. What hath not the Devil in all his quiver's choice for
the heart? The Devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, _an arrow_
for the heart like a sweet voice. 4. For what hath not the Devil in all
his quiver's choice an arrow like a sweet voice? The Devil hath not, in
all his quiver's choice, an arrow _for the heart_ like a sweet voice. 5.
Like what sweet thing hath not the Devil in all his quiver's choice an
arrow for the heart? The Devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, an
arrow for the heart _like a sweet voice_. 6. Like what kind of a voice
hath not the Devil in all his quiver's choice an arrow for the heart?
The Devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, an arrow for the heart
like a _sweet voice_.
"A bad workman blames his tools."
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