Dissertations Moral and Critical, Том 1Mess. Exshaw, Walker, Beatty, White, Byrne, Cash, and M'Kenzie, 1783 |
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... speaking to them . What is written is permanent , and may be reviewed at leifure ; but what is addreffed to the ear is immediately gone ; and , if it take no hold of the Memory , is good for nothing . The The force wherewith any thing ...
... speaking to them . What is written is permanent , and may be reviewed at leifure ; but what is addreffed to the ear is immediately gone ; and , if it take no hold of the Memory , is good for nothing . The The force wherewith any thing ...
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... idea that may prefent itself , without caring how far it may lead from the prefent purpose . Of fuch medita- tions the Memory retains little or nothing . VOL . I. E But But when we speak aloud , or converfe , our Chap . III . 49 OF MEMORY .
... idea that may prefent itself , without caring how far it may lead from the prefent purpose . Of fuch medita- tions the Memory retains little or nothing . VOL . I. E But But when we speak aloud , or converfe , our Chap . III . 49 OF MEMORY .
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James Beattie. But when we speak aloud , or converfe , our thoughts become more ftationary , and are better connected , and more perfectly understood ; and impreffions are made on the ear , as well as on the mind . Memory may be made ...
James Beattie. But when we speak aloud , or converfe , our thoughts become more ftationary , and are better connected , and more perfectly understood ; and impreffions are made on the ear , as well as on the mind . Memory may be made ...
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... in general converfation , or whose profeffion obliges them to speak in publick , have , for the moft part , a facility of Recollection , that surprises the the reclufe ftudent ; who perhaps knows more than they 52 Chap . III . OF MEMORY .
... in general converfation , or whose profeffion obliges them to speak in publick , have , for the moft part , a facility of Recollection , that surprises the the reclufe ftudent ; who perhaps knows more than they 52 Chap . III . OF MEMORY .
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... speak flowly , and with propriety , and to speak aloud . For thus , Attention will be fixed ; an appeal made to two fenfes at the fame time , and no habits contracted of faulty pronunciation . 7. It has been doubted , whether the Memory ...
... speak flowly , and with propriety , and to speak aloud . For thus , Attention will be fixed ; an appeal made to two fenfes at the fame time , and no habits contracted of faulty pronunciation . 7. It has been doubted , whether the Memory ...
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