An Improved System of Mnemonics, Vol. 1

Thomas Coglan

• 21 april 2018
• 9781332142941

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Excerpt from An Improved System of Mnemonics, Vol. 1: Or Art of Assisting the Memory, Simplified, and Adapted to the General Branches of Literature; With a Dictionary of Words, Used as Signs of the Arithmetical Figures
In introducing this system to the Public, the Author feels the necessity of stating the motives that chiefly influenced him, in presuming to appear before so high a tribunal.
Having delivered Lectures upon Mnemonics, in most of the principal towns in the kingdom; wherein he unfolded their general principles, and particular arrangements, with instructions how to adapt them to many of the leading branches of literature; he had the pleasure of observing the gratification, which the knowledge of the art gave to the greater part of those that attended him, who were generally anxious in their esquiries, whether he meant to publish the system, which they conceived would be useful as a book of reference, either to direct their own operations, or instruct their families; not a work merely to explain the theory, but in it also to furnish associations for several subjects, that are frequently studied, and by many deemed essential to a good education.
To render it useful, this latter part was considered indispensable; for although the ingenuity, and utility of Mnemonics were generally admitted, yet objections were often started to them, by stating the difficulty, or apparent difficulty, of making proper or suitable combinations, which the art required.
These objections were urged, particularly by those persons, that were either engaged in business, or other pursuits, who Mere desirous of commiting the assimilations to memory, but were not inclined to take the trouble of making them.
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