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MNEMONICS
JjnUED TO THB
ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE
ART OF MEMORY.
IN PARTS.
• sTi0 iK>t ^ loTe of ?loveltf inipuM
•]ni* memorx's nice dependences to lowi;
Put, mindful of the aids that life requiiM,
A.Ad of the serrices man owes to man,
"We meditate new arts on Nature's plan;
Xhe cold, desponding breast of sloth to wana,
Xbe flsune of industry and g^enios fim,
j^jnd emtUation's noble rage alarm,
And tlM kmg hoars of toil and soUmde to
BT ROBERT PIKE. JR. AND VIILIAM C. PIKB.
(9:i)itUentl) Sljotisand.
BOSTOIJ:
PBINTID BY SAMUEL K. DICKINSOK.
1848.
\ Sold by Henry Hinds,
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MNEMONICS
APTIiDD) TO TBS
ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE
ART OF MEMORY.
IN PARTS.
• 'T i« not the love of Novelty inspiree
Th' memory^s nice dependences to scan;
Pvt, mindfal of the aids that life reqolTes,
Ajkd of the services man owes to man,
. We meditate new arts on Nature's plan ;
The cold, desponding breast of sloth to wanik,
The flame of industry and genius fan,
And emulation's noble ruge alarm,
And tk« long hours of toil and solitude to chaim.*
BY ROBERT PIKE, JR. AND WILLIAM C. PIKB.
Q[l)irteentl) SI)onsanb.
BOSTON:
PRINTED BY SAMUEL N. DICKINSON.
1848.
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in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
I care not for all the criticism that ever was canted, or decanted, or
recanted, neither does the world. The world takes an author as it i^ds
him, and seats him accordingly above or below the salt. The world is
as obstinate as a million mules, and will not turn its head on one side or
another for all the shouting of all the critical population that was ever
shouted. It is very possible the world is a bad judge. Well, then ap-
peal to posterity and be hanged to you — and posterity will affirm the
judgment with costs. — Propessor Wilson.
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!»"-*• Dr. Darwin, April 28. ^^
Rev. Alex. Oeddes, Feb. !
Dr. Oametty June 28.
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CONTENTS AND DIRECTIONS.
OontendB, ,.,.,, 5
To the Header, 4
Pre&ce, ,......., 5
Key and Principles,- • • ^ 6
The Comparison of Systiems, ^ 7
Philosophy of Mnemonics, 13
Analytical Basis, 28
Method of Learning, and the Symbols, 24
Bules and Examples, 81
System oi Chronics, 26
Examples in Classification, ^9
. Historical Events in the Eighteenth
Century, 41
Congressional Apportionment for 1848, 54
Miscellaneous Historical Events, 56
Cities and Towns in the United States, 76
Principal Cities of the World, 78
Census of tiie United States, 80
Soyerei^s of England, 81
Biography <rf Eminent Men, 82
United States* Governors, 86
Dictionary of Numbers, 91
Numeric Basis, Rule I, Examples,- • • • 101
Rule n. Vowels and Diphthongs, • 102
Rule ni. Combinations, 103
Rule IV, One thousand understood, 104
Analjrtical Basis, with Examples, 106
Constitution of the United States, 109
Rivers in the United States, 118
To be carefully read and considered as
" a preliminary matter.
To be pondered.
To BE LEARNED AND ReMEMBEREIX
To he Understood.
To be Practised,
Studied in connection with page 23.
Exampks illustrating the Principles of
Mnemonics. Such to be learned as the
reader may deem of importance, the rest
to be considered ^ illustrations.
For reference.
Examples illustrating principles.
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Whek the subject of Mnemonics is introduced, it is immediately associated in the mipd with
a system of artificial memory. Even the use of the term is sufficient to prejudice many persons
against a work bearing the title. This is unjust ; but it arises, as most of the injustice which
is experienced does, from a misapprehension of the subject The fact that there is no such
thing as natural associatwn is overlooked. The fact that all the words we use, the names we
give to objects, have no fitness or appropriateness in themselves, and might, as far as the things
are concerned, as Well be called anything else. We use particular marks us the representatives
of numbers, and call them figures, for the sake of convenience, not because there is any reason
other than this for their being so called.
It is obvious to the most obtuse perception, that some things are remembered more readily
than others. Numbers, as they are usually given, are the most difficult things to remember, and
familiar objects the easiest. Is there any good reason why objects should not be used instead
of figures as the representatives of numbers ? Suppose I use the animal ^a: as a representative
of four^ cannot I assign as good a reason for doing co as he who makes his mark in the follow-
ing manner 1 4. Is there any reason why one should be called arbitrary and artificial, while
the other is natural and rational ? It is upon this principle that letters are tised as the repre-
sentatives of numbers, being the elements of words.
It is just as reasonable and correct to talk about an artificial judgment as an artificial memory.
Because, by going to work right and rationally, we can accomplish more than if we took an
opposite course, it would seem that such a course should be deemed natural, in contradis-
tinction to what we term artificial. The object of the following pages is to assist those who
wish to cultivate the natural memory in preference to seeking for an artificial one. Such will be
benefitted by attending to a few
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DIRECTIONS.
1. The symbols of association, or the Chronic Symbols, as they are sometimes termed, must
be perfectly learned. To do this, turn to the chapter headed * Method of Learning the Symbols?
2. The value of the letters must also be perfectly learned. It will be well to learn the vowels
first, then the value of diphthongs ; and in doing so refer to the Key.
3. Then if you are interested in the subject of Chronics, you may turn to that particular chap-
ter, and you will find no difficulty in comprehending the subject
4. The examples, rules, and subject-matter of the work, are given, not to be committed to
memory, but to illustrate principles. If any one thinks any of the examples tvorthy of being
treasured up, let him learn them ; if not, let him apply the principles of Mnemonics to assist
him in remembering what is desirable.
5. Never suffer yourself to forget any thing which you undertake to remember. If any points
are not sufficiently explained, use the more diligence. Take for your motto,
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Toll on, hope ever, — Despair I no, never !
Boston^ August^ 1845.
J7Q4 Alexander Hamilton, July 6«
John Locke, 72. Lid re. Bodsnet, 78. Ses p&o.
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PREFACE.
•Lnltod In Cbt eountftM elwmlMn of tti« fenria.
Our thoofhit are linked by many a UUn durini
Awake but on«, and k) I what inyzladi iIm,
Each atampt iti image as the otlMr IIm.*
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But vith pl«afQre reiii(mb*ri mj Lir* wvo^i awATp
'r&-9 pl»[» of our me? Cipg, tht» yfej- and Uit; dn^*
W« ctiplil ti?ll Tou —but St TtiuM awttlt^n the slgli —
Of tkid hii^t tKot Jiftvifl fwel]<;d in oar br'^irisa — Uj ilte i
Fnr iOJTOW and jii1ii«b4 tUI cniine t» eiUiJi h^Mutn
Therit aiti tiiQ«v n-Jma vclrjuk vHh k L4;Jir£ full of i'ean
upon Cart]! M a iorrowftjl Tullej of Eear^,
When Llio rucure leern? {Irtrk aa tliu rMians of Uespalf,
WbMt hope ra*j i3<vt enter <m* jorro* tu ahaj* s
Wbcn ihe b-tiffbt cf niirC^irtiin^ the ftutiflepi oF imUi,
Hn>-0 icat[*i^ tlifl WMtti o( Ouf hope* OH OUT ^Kth, { —
'T I0 4 gloriDdB boou ihat the light of Lho neil
O'er Uie ateps of tlia watiderlng oqc mar If c ewtt
ThBlthofs we have crtc^rlihed imd Icvcd wiU tQtmi back.
To chtcr up onr ipiritff C*n lifu*J glojluy Lmck ;
TJiiL tho BOft, BOothltig twilight of uieiuoiy'i itar^
ThAt ^tierdon ol jm^ |;]fiiiiiu vhen itorciu cannot mar^
Did ipringTi l)i.lTn^ bfeath eTETwaJreo thtil^f
limit thuu wept at the ilgbt of a clotid tli^ went by t
Are thtr* ^omcato whtJi yew of ocfiuireuce^ nieet?
TfVhtn tiiB pa«t itcftlj 11 pan u» with fuLry feet J
Wheel tha lOQi^ oT Qm biM«T c^r tb« ruitie or teaTev,
WiikD» the fbebnf tliit gljuidieni, ur ri>Glinff thai silevitt
MjrateHoui meinoryl mwKd (mi hrighf—
Ai puw ai a dMam yf ^mio Iiciiven iif licht
To tbeie wlu> u« put^ — likt 4 iplrLt of wfatli
Thou kauntfiit the iguUty one, where'er IiLa path.
In Tnln ftwui thy pKien<n our fbuUtL'pi vowld flpo t
Letiu hide when wb mij, ve are followed by thee.
Thou taJtefit UP h««K to tht^ rlrcafTii of nur t<ii]U),
And reeilleit tha visioni we ftm^icd mil tnitin
Tiie Hui[]!ij;hl: and eluhlow — tha jpi;ll ti« it broke
The fi'DTitaJni of (telltiff wh«rf pmiKna. iwoke^
But ^hfira Are :ho frlen3i of my cKildiiond ? Tlicy iletp
SOTtii, uncri^Q^rl, uqkntMft.J, within tha gttftt Jeup,
W^ldum^ to the hatttt^^dbld wunt forth to dli?,
And OBtf^afitr off^ln ctran^er lands He ;
While oChen are gathered beneath the dark shade
Of ovr own Tillage ehnrchrard, where children we pli^rai.
O, memocyt eweet are toe •nnbeami that play
On fhy eaiket of Jewels, to light np onr way,
Tbotti^ sad are the ehadowa that follow that light t
Tet wonld wa fbnet them, if memory might f '
like daylight and darkness, they mingle and meet
In that beautiftil twilight, so pensively sweet.
There an thoi;^Bhti, that have slumbered in darkness fbr
ICid tiie wieeks of our hopes, our griefs, and onr tears ;
There are dreams we have cherished, that day after day
To the realms of forgetfulneas wandered away;
There are words we lutve spoken, and tones we have heard.
That for long changing years not an echo have stirred ;
A music that swells, and responses that break
Where the wildest commotion one thou^t could not wake i
Tet a look, or a tone, or the wind's sigmng strain,
Might call up each reding of pleasure and pain.
O, how one kind word, to a heart in despair,
Uoloeks Ae fViU fbontafai ef tendamese thawi
Out kH, Hxithtnf tone amid hunslt an d aMft,
Awftktiii ail echo Hint ^llnj bKit wltb Uh <
For toufih but tije iligbteit uf m^mnr^'t wttin^t^
And ten thriuBond rvipcud to th« atnuq tti&t it aingi,
Thf^n trtib up your chJEd in Ihu vmiy he ihould (jo»
AkiiI whtfa bi im Did wUl he leave it r ah^ no t
Til a eord»you have linked m aHeetJon. wiii 3vt,
All wiiere'er he jnaj roam he will think of the put 1
Th^r fi'vilLUK" of cMldhnod evq -aivtr depart
TV li L k thu lofHf nt of life cgunet on tlixouj|h the heart 1
No L:Jr:3L:j^ oan etface them ^ they pan not nwiy,
ThvLi^li our fond dresttunJioaLd perish, i4]d all ei« decay |
Tbcy stand ont Ilk* beaeon-lightj, telling how brif Irf
Wens the h^puB that we Loved en th*iT titvt with a bUg^t
In the htiTXc uf d«jecrLi>n«of (WkneM mnd ^lootn,
Whc^n the Buullflhl ofhopA iilika dowervon atomh,
la tli« hnur when the vtitmeit niisftrtaDu begin,
In th& holur iit teinptAtlon to crime and (4 fin*
In the hoar wheci Uj eiiul may bo rtady to My^
* It wtiv better to die tliati La icsmiw Pct itay/ —
lo the land nf M» liffluLahcnent wheraW it bft,
Hiv thoughts bi ti]«if ladDei* will eocne back io thes |
LcTed ^icea will whl-i^wr agi^ in Ikla ear
Thif fftraiui th»l hji obildhooii deUphted lo busar-
It inury bfl, voii hB.V6 puMttt Trsm thLi hffe &f uqtflitt
Aud quietly ilecp with the turf oa jour brtut ;
Yet if ever thjit child eiiy»Ed touf boaom to bieed*
TLaw often will Oifiuiutf tctl of ibe deed p
And JjiiJugh It may be unnvnillng ivgrvt^
Tlmt lictof cinkindneKi he caiittot furgat,
Whi]« la H^ahneBp flnd powor wlU each loag cOteriiihfd
word
Come back to the heart that In childhood H stirred 1
^ And the tones of reproof in that dear angd yolee,
WiU bid his desponding heart hope and njdce,—
For we axwf inyatery, fearfull / gmndj
A Worl&of OMveity, worthy his hand.
Kind BaKWb before us a glorious boon lies.
Which twtta A)11y, t were madness, to slight or deepin.
We may reach forth Our hand, or our step turn away 1
Two paths are before us — which choose we thif dajf
The one leads us on in perpetual youth.
To the regions of sunlight, the fountains of tmthi
Where mind, and not its clay dwelling, is man,
To enlarge and exalt which, throu^ Ufo's little ipaii.
Is the only employment that merits a thought t
The otAer still leaves this high object unsought,
And labors to shut out the sunbeams of light,
Where mind gropes with shadows, and error, and nl^il
The one leads to happiness, honor, and fiune.
The other to ignorance, sorrow, and shame.
We are led on by silken bonds that we scarce knoWt
We are hedged in by habits so hard to forego.
The foelings that prompt us —the thoughts that oontral
With the past are connected, like body and soul,
We cannot tell how — but the longer they last.
The deeper their roots strike, thehr cords bind mor< (kst
We have found — O I how cheering that trutii to tha haart,
From the courses we follow, with sorrow we part.
O, seize then the God-given boon ere it flies.
And xeadva to be vixtaous, happy, and wisa.
BoftTov, 1844.
ROBERT PIKE, Jr.
WILLIAM 0. PIKE,
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KEY AND PRINCIPLES OF MNEMONICS.
L PROPOSITIONS.
1. To cultivate the memory, we must exercise it. There is no dltemathe,
2. In the acquisition of knowledge, system and method are indispensably necessary.
3. That process^which exercises the faculties of the mind harmoniotisly is the best.
4. The basis of all memory is association ; it controls all our thoughts and feelings.
5. There is no such thing as natural association; it is a* contradiction of terms.
6. Those associations seem natural which are familiar ; as words seem the natural represen-
tatives of sounds ; although the association is entirely arbitrary.
7. It is easier to remember objects than numbers ; hence it is philosophical to use objects as
symbols representing numbers.
8. It is easier to remember words than numbers ; consequently it is rational to substitute
words for nurnbers-^wUck are called mnemonic words.
9. AH (Ejects may be used as symbols representing numbers ; 4UI words for the same purpose^
by assigning a numeric vdtu4 to letters.
In mnemonics, letters are classed as vowels^ consonants, diphthongs and combinations,
n. VALUE OF LETTERS AND DIPHTHONGS EXPLAINED.
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Each letter is used to represent the number against which it
is placed. A^Tien any two of the letters a, e, ij 01 u come to-
gether in one syllable, they form a diphthong, and are used to
represent but one figure upon the principle of adding the sepa-
rate values of the letters together.
There are two seeming exceptions to this rule ; aw which rep-
resents 6, as it is a substitute for aw, having the same sound, and
ow, which represents 9 for the same reason. The letter q is al-
ways followed by w, and so both are taken to represent 4. W^
and y are termed anomalies ; as y is never considered as united
with any other letter, it always represents a cypher.
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THE VALUE OF COMBINATIONS EXPLAINED.
Two or more consonants united in one syllable with-
out a vowel between them, represent but onefigur$f
upon the prii^ciple of adding the values of the several
letters together ; and if the combination amounts to a
greater sum than 9, take the unit figure for the value.
Remembex a vozoel and amsonant are never added
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MNEMONICS.
ITS FKIENDS AND OPPOSERS — OUR SYSTEM
AND OTHERS.
BY R. & W. C. PIKE.
The importance of a good memory is a question about which few are
disposed to quarrel. It is so obvioas— so perfectly self-evident, that th^
person with a good memory possesses a manifest advantage over the indi-
vidual who has a poor one, that it would be worse than useless to discuss
f^of topic. But there is another, intimately connected with the former,
about which thefe exists a very great diversity of opinion, and that refers
to the practical utility of Mnemonics — to its adaptation to the every day
wants of life. There is no disagreement as to the importance of the object
proposed to be attained — the only question is, whether it be attainable.
The mind is governed by fixed and immutable laws, and so far as any
system of Mnemonics is based upon those laws, so far it cannot by any
possibility affect the mind injuriously. This seems to us self-evident.
The next question which presents itself is, — Can we, by any possibility,
become acquainted with those laws ? Intelle^ctual Philosophy has indeed
been studied to little purpose, if we are compelled to reply in the negative.
And if we can become acquainted with the laws of the mind, can we not
apply and enforce those laws systematically ?
Suppose, for illustration, we listen to a speaker who utters his thoughts
unconnectedly in discoursing upon any given topic. Is itreasonable to sup-
pose that we should be able to retain his discourse as distinctly as if he
had studied it thoroughly, and presented his ideas in a connected manner?
And why not? It would undoubtedly be answered, that there was more
system and method in the one \ase than in the other. And this system or
method is nothing more or less ihan arranging our thoughts in accordance
with the laws that govern the mind, — in other words, as far as it goes this
is Mnemonics. And at this point we may safely lay down the following
propositions :
1. To cultivate any power or faculty, we must escereise it This ift a law
of our natures, mental and physical.
1^. Iliis exercise should be systematic and ntethodUal. In other words, it
liiust confirm to the laws of the mind.
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MNEMONICS OUE SYSTEM AND OTHERS.
3. In order thus to conform to the laws of the mind, it mmt exercise all
our faculties harmoniously.
Any system of Mnemonics which comes up to this standard, then^ we
may safely conclude is not only not injurious, but productive of beneficial
results just in proportion as it approximates to tliis s^findard ; and so far as
any system conflicts with these principles, it is positively injurious. We
come then to the inevitable conclusion that Mnemonics may be so ap-
plied as to be beneficial to a v-ery great degree.
This view of the subject is still further enforced by the fact that scien-
tific men in all ages, have practised and taught some principles of Mne-
monics.
Simonides is the reputed inventor of Mnemonics, but whether he was
or not is a matter of very little consequence. It is enough for us to know
that it was understood and practised by the philosophers and orators of
antiquity. As far as we know, that principle most used by them was the
association o^ locality in the use of visible objects. The greatest orators of
Greece and Rome were those who made the most use of Mnemonics,
among which may be mentioned Demosthenes, Cicero, and Julius Csesar.
Bear in mind that the principle used by the ancients was founded upon
bcal association, a principle ridiculed by a modern professor.
Dr. Grey may be considered as the author of another principle of Mne-
monics, which, for convenience sake, we will call a species of topical asso-
dation. In comparing his system with that of Simonides, he says, " From
the account I have given of it the reader will observe, that the method here
proposed is perfectly diflerent from that of Simonides, thofCean so fsunous
among the ancients for being the first inventor of an art of memory of
whom both TuUy and Quintilian speak with respect, and of whose method
of places and images they have given u« a very full and particular ac-
count."
Dr. Grey's method consisted in abreviating the name, and incorporating a
syllable expressive of the date, by assigning a numeric value to the letters.
These syllables were, for the most part, barbarous and unmeaning, and the
following, taken at random, will afford an idea of the principle.
B^vazul 1055, the accession of David to the throne of Israel He used
a part of the alphabet only, taking both vowels and consonants^.
Feinagle, something like forty years ago, produced quite an excitement
in England and France, by a system of Mnemonics which combined the
principles of Simonides and Dr. Grey, greatly modified. Instead of un-
meaning words, Feinagle used those which were significant of ideas, and
associated them with the fact to be remembered. But instead of using
vowels and consonants, the latter only were significant. Thus, the word
MouSe expressed 30, the value assigned to the letters M and S.
Upon the general features of Feinagle's system two authors have pub-
lished works. T. Halworth, several between 1822 and 1830, and more re-
cently. Professor F. F. Gouraud. The general outlines of Hal worth and
Gouraud are those of Feinagle. All use consonants to represent numbers,
rejecting the vowels. Halworth and Gouraud place the mnemonic word
at the close of the sentence, and both make use of formulas constructed in
the same manner. The principle of *' homophonic analogies " is used
more extensively by F. F. Gouraud than it is by Feipagle. This principle
is not alluded to by Halworth.
The prominent features of the various systems will be better understood
by a synon«4is of their keys, and a comparison of the manner »f applying
them.
1708.
William Ktt, 70. Pykpp.
Thomas Holcroft, March 23.
Charles Ton linisos, 70. Lykpj^
Fisher Ames, 50. Jqly i.
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MNEMONICS — OUR SYSTEM AND OTHERS.
Feinagle used " homophonic analogies." So does Gouraud. Halworth
placed the mnemonic word at the close of the sentence. So does Gouraud.
Halworth rejected the connecting words. So does Professor Gouraud.
The following dates, illustrated by the several systems, as far as they go,
will afibrd a fair comparison.
Examples.
1. Joseph's advancement in Egypt^ B. C. 1715.
Halworth. — Pharaoh makes Joseph Governor of Egypt, and gives him a
wife his aid to secure for each — cask to come, - 1715
17 15
Prop. Gouraud — Associates with the fact the word Requital, - 1715
4 7 15
R. & W. C. Pike. — Joseph became Prime Minister of Egypt by walking
in virtue's path 1715
71 51
2. Balaam reproved by his ass, B. C. 1451.
Halworth. — Balak vainly endeavors the curses of — Balaam to buy, 1451
Prop. Gouraud — Associates with the fact the phrase Droll head, 1451
R. & W. C. Pike. — Balaam's ass reproves his master as a fiend 1451
3. Samson's carrying off the gates of Gaza, B. C. 1124.
Prof. GouEAUD — Associates the fact with stout owner, - • 1124
R. & W. C Pike. — Samson carries off the gates of Gaza without
much adc^ 1124
4. Daniel cast into the Uons* den, B. €. 537.
Prop. Gouraud — Associates the fact with Lame cow, - - 537
R. & W. C. Pike. — Daniel, when cast into the lions' den found not
a lion moved a lip 537
5. Yashti reptfdiated hy Darius, B. C 518.
Halworth. — Darius, king of Persia, makes a great feast at Shu-
shan; is offended by Vashti, his. queen, and discards her;
makes Esther his queen, and proclaims his — new beauty, 518
Gouraud i — Associates her as being a sleiohty wife, - - 518
R. & W. C. Pike. — Dariua repudiates - - - - Vashti 518
6. Destruction of Soehm and Gfomorrah, B. C. 1897,
T. Halworth. — Abraham intercedes for Sodom, but cannot prevent
CITY WOES, 1897
F. F. GrouRAUD — Associatcs with roasting a rough pig, - - - 1897
R. & W. C. Pike. — Sodom could not furnish te^ righteous men to
^ save it, - - • * - , - - could 1897
7. Death of Ckcto at TMca, B. Cl 46.
Prop. Gouraud — Associates a paroxysm of b^gb, - • • 46
R. & W. C. Pike. — Cato kills himself, and becomes Ms own fb>e, 46
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1810. MflwHj Ppnon, 1810. L6rdCoUiiigwood,Mardi7.
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Prop. Gk>tjRAUD — Associates the idea of his heart's beating with a
wann palpitation, 959
R. & W. C. Pike. — Edgar, like a a beai^ carried off a - nun 959
9. Stephen, the twenty-fourth Sovere^n of England, A, D, 1135.
Db. GEBr, — Stephen, StepW/,* - - . - . . 1135
Feinagle. — Stephen. The looking-glass (symbol for four) is very
much stiffened. There is a watch placed befbre the glass ;
this is timely,^ - - • 1135
The word stiffened will recall the name of Stephen,
Prof. Gouraud. — Stephen. The N. Y. Exchange 24, if changed
into a Stiff-inn would be too fashionable a resort
^ox di Stout meed dipper, . - - . 1135 r 19
E. & W. C. Pike. — Feed Stephen's dog* on beans, - - 1135
SaheansnWkon, mnemonic name, 1135 — 19-4^^
10. Ethelbald, third Sovereign of England, 857.
F. F. Gouraud. — Ethelbald. A Mount 3, without trees may be eom«
pared to a Tall-bald, whose bare head never felt the teeth
of an Awjul comb.
R. & W. C. Pike. — Ethelbald. Observe a Bali> man sitting at a ta-
ble holding a cup.
11. HdchardZ 118%
F. F. Gouraud. — Richard I. Cceub db Leon. A gold psncil 26, is
seldom used to draw a Cart of Lyons, or ta mark the
outlines of a stoiU, heavy boot-sole.
R. & W. C. Pike. — Is Richard upon the eoiniet putting boots Why?
12. John, 1199.
F. F. Gouraud. — John Bowling 27, as an exercise is as useless to a hard
working Joiner as would be the blows of a stout ho^ beat-
ing a lohale,
R. k, W. C. Pike. — -Let John oaloh the bee in hi:^ gowrd trap,
13. Elizabeth, 1558.
F. F. Gouraud, — Elizabeth. Mt. Vesuvius 43, is yearly visited by
mjsmy a Lizr beast, who always seeiBS to eonsider IkiB
lava a rare view,
R. & W. C. Pike, — Does Elizabeth with the SCiS90FS take snuff? Oddt
Dr. Grey. — Elizabeth. EIs/m/:.
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^ His age at his decease.
nj.. Boilean Despreanx, 75. Dim oil, Henry Dodwell, thgpy.
' David Hume, ^0, Hag awl Richard Cumberland, May 7.
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MNEMONICS —OUR SYSTEM AND OTHSRS.
The foregoing examples are sufficient to compare the several systems
mentioned, and perhaps it may seem invidious in us to extend our remarks
respecting them. There is one, however, whom its author (Professor F.
F, Gouraud) heralded forth as a ** most astonishing invention," "the greatest
discovery the world ever witnessed,*' a "perfect system** which seems to
claim, from its importance, a little more attention. A system of mnemon-
ics should be to the mind as a whole, what maps are to the study of geog-
raphy as a part — an assistance; not to lessen the labor of the mind, but to
increase its acquisitions. Fowler says, of Prof. G.*s system, ** he has framed
his whole system for the eapress purpose of relieving natural memory of its
usual exercisa In this, mainly, he places its entire excellence. This is its
beginning y end, warp, and woof. In this one point consists every item of
excellence claimed for it by the Professor, and to this sole end does every
. part and parcel of it tend."
But the most important principle of Mnemonics is entirely overlooked
in this " perfect system," and that is, a direct use of the knowledge we pos-
sess in acquiring more. The following extract may be found on page 22
of our work.
" The mind is so constituted, that the more knowledge we acquire, the easier becomes
the process. Mnemonics takes advantage of this law of the mind, by making each promi-
nent idea the centre around which others are collected, and with which they are associated.
Yet it is a truth W..^ all will learn, sooner or later, that, whatever assistance we may re-
ceive from others, s'-il we must labor, or be content to remain in ignorance j there is no al-
ternative."
In the use of mnemonic words to^ represent dates where two or more
events occurred in the same year, if associated with the same word, the
fact of their thus occurring wouid be suggested, yet this principle is never
once introduced or alluded to in Professor G.'s system, or if it is we have
not discovered it. Take the following examples as an illustration.
The first money coined at Rome was the key that opened the way to many a silly vice, 480
At the battle ofSalamU the Greeks rendered their country and the world signal seevick, 480
At the battle of ThermiopyUe, Leonidas being summoned to surrender, did Refuse, 480
When Dardanus founded the city of Troy, there was not on the spot even a Turf house, 1480
In ours the following examptes may be found : —
Jerusalem destroyed by Nebuchaditezzar, at it look B. C. 588
Zedekiah's eyes put out, and he ceases to - , • • - - • look B. C. 5S8
At the destruction of Paris by fire look A. D. 588
At the destruction of the invincible Armada - ^look 158S
The English Mercury, first newspaper published, at it * look 1588
At the assassinated Guises look 1588
Not a page of examples can be found in our work where this principle is not enforced and
applied, and it will be obvious to thos^ unacquainted with mnemonics of the importance of
this principle. It is in reality the basis of Mnemonics.
Another objection to this *' perfect system" is, th^^t the mnemonic words ree[uire a species
of translation, inasmuch as frequently only one letter in a word majr be significant of a
number, and this fact also requires longer examples, as, for instance, if we set lawyers to
navigating tfce ocean, it will express the number of persons engaged in navigating it in 1840,
while in the ''■perfect «y8tera" it is expressed by a " Whale-chase any where," the num-
ber being 56,0^3.
The principle of localitjr the "perfect system" " rejects and ridicules," coasequently it " re-
jects and ridicules" one principle by which almost every person remembers. This does not
seem like exercising all our faculties harmoniously. If this " perfect system" of Professor G.*8
was within the reach of every one, we should not have troubled our readers with this com-
parison, but, inasmuch as it is necessary thit those who would get a peep at it must first
subscribe yfoc dollars, or thereabouts, to attend a course of lectures, and m consideration that
all cannot pay thus much, even for a "jierfect system" of " Phreno Mnemotchney," or in
other words, Mtieroonics, we felt constrained to give them about a fifty cent glance upon the
coasideration that our labors would be thus thrown in gratuitously. ' In conclusion, we say
to all, think &nA judge for yourselves.
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John Home Tooke, Mareh 19.
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CHAPTER I,
PHILOSOPHY OF MNEMONICS.
Parent of Wisdom ! thon whose sway
The throng'd ideal hosts ober;
Who bid'st their ranks, now vanish, now appear,
Flame in the van, or darken in the rear,
Accept this votive verse. Thy reign,
Nor place can fix, nor power restrain,
All, all is thine. For thee the ear and eye
Rove throng the realms of grace, and harmony.
The senses thee spontaneous serve,
That wake and thrill through every nerve ;
Else vainly soA, lov'd Philomel, woald now
The soothmg sadness, of thy warbled woe }
The object to be attained in edu-
cation is the development, to their
greatest extent, of the physical, men-
tal, and moral capabilities of man,
and this object should never be for-
gotten. The development of these
powers and faculties should be har-
monious. Where this is not the
case, we cultivate one faculty at
the expense of another, which must
result m injury. In speaking of the
cultivation of memory, we mean the
harmonious expanding of the intel-
lect through its medium; in other
words, it is impossible for a person
to have a good memory in every
sense of the word who has not an
expanded and cultivated mind.
• Memory is the basis of all knowl-
edge, the only medium through which
it can be acquired or retained. De-
prive a person of memory and you
take with it all the knowledge he
possesses and effectually prevent his
ever acquiring more. Without mem-
3 the past would be but one eter-
blank of impenetrable darkness,
tbifMigh which no ray of light could
ey^r,penetrate, while the present, the
Else vainly tweet yon woodbine shade
With donas of fragrance fill the glade ;
Vainly the cyniet spread her downy plume.
The vine gash nectar, and the virgin oloora :
But swiA to thee alive and warm
Devolves each tributary charm.
See modest nature bring her simple stores,
Ltixuriant art a tide as endless ponn
While every flower in fancy's clime,
Each gem of old heroic Time,
Have come to worship at thy magic shrine.
And yield their homage and their praise as thine.
Miuon, aUendi
fleeting present, would comprise our
whole knowledge of existence.
"All nature," remarks Upham, "pre-
sents, a new view in consequence
of memory. The sun in the heavens
is not the same sun which he would
be if man could not remember. It is
the sun not of to-day merely, but of
a thousand years; it has baptized
with light the foreheads of a hun-
dred generations, and no man of ordi-
nary sensibility can contemplate it
without being awakened to the im-
pressive conviction that the same
luminary shone on the bower of Ad-
am, the tent of Abraham, the frail
and tempest-tossed barks of Colum-
bus and the Pilgrims ; of the stem,
deliberative assemblies and battle-
fields of our Revolution, as to-day he
shines on all the kingdoms, and em-
pires, and republics on the globe."
"pAnd if memory can thus give a
new aapect to inanimate nature, much
more so to that which is animate and
inteUigent. Look upon the man who
now stands before you, and suppose
all your past recollections to be blotted
put. Thi^re is the same form and
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Stature aad expression of the coun-
tenance, but how different from the
man with whom but a moment before
was associated the recolle(;tioa of
early life, of common joys and suffer*
ings, of associated trials, and conflicts,
and triumphs. Look upon the man
who has pursued with steadfastness
the interests of freedom, truth, and
virtue, from his youth upward ; who
has been an Aristides when the im-
pulse of party violence threatened
to sweep away the landmarks of
political honesty; who has shown
himself a Washington, when the
storms of war hung darkly over his
beloved country; and what a flood
of glory rests upon such a person, as
we contemplate him in the light of
memory, and amid the illumination
of departed days ! "
The memory is that great store-
house of the mind, in which, however
much may be deposited, it is never
full ; possessing the wonderful prop-
erty of enlarging itself, so that the
more it contams, the more it is capa-
ble of containing. It is here that we
treasure the materials of thought;
it is from this armory that Reason
equips herself to go forth and fight
the battles of truth, putting to flight
her enemies. Ignorance, Error, and
Superstition, with their thousand com-
peers. Observation and Attention
collect the ijiaterials ; Comparison
classifies and arranges them ; Judg-
ment selects tjie weapons ; Prudence
teaches how to use them; \vhile
Fancy and Irnagination are rearing
fairy fabrics, decking the fields with
flowers, pointing out unseen beauties
to the eye, and painting the path-
way of life as a scene of light and
love. It is true, Recollection whis-
pers of the past ; and Disappointnjent
points to the ruin that marks her
footsteps ; but Hope speaks consola-
tion to the heart, and promises to
build all again as brightly as ever.
The advantages of a good mem-
ory are so obvious, it might naturally
be supposed that all would be anxious
to secure the benefits within their
reach through its medium. Yet this,
unhappily, is not the case. "How
often," says Emerson,' "do we find
writers and teachers speaking of
memory almost in strains of con-
tempt, as though it was a faculty
scarcely worth cultivating — scarcely
worth possessing;" and how many
others, who do not say so in words,
inculcate the same sentiment by their
actions. The first natural conse-
quence resulting from this feeling, is
ignorance. How many of our most
intelligent men are ignorant of mat-
ters upon which they ought to be in-
formed. And upon how many other
subjects, where they are unwilling to
plead ignorance, is their knowledge
but a chaotic mass of floating ideas,
"that admits of neither distribution
or review," and for which they are
very little wiser. Suppose you should
make out a list of one hundred only of
the most important events that have
occurred since the Creatibn, and pro-
pose to every individual you meet,
what proportion of the community
could intelligibly describe the events
with the date of their occurrence ? If
you should extend the same inquiry
to the different sciences, what sup-
pose you would be the result?
If the memory was a single, inde-
pendent faculty of the tmnd, aiid the
other faculties were equally indepen-
dent of it, then it would be a matter
of little consequence, comparatively,
whether we cultivated it or not But
standing as it does, connected with
every other fkculty of the mind, and
having tile key of knowledge in its
keeping, the question of its cultiva-
tion becomes one of the utmost im-
portance. We cannot proceed a single
step but by its permission. And far-
ther, the utmost harmony must be
kept up between the memory and
other mtellectual faculties. The
means adopted for the impiovement
of memory, must be adapted to the
cultivation of the intellect The two
go hand in hand; there is no audi
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but at the eyp«ii$e of th^ ^^er.
How, th^n, at© we to improve our
poweM of wind and body? By one
and the sc^me means. It is by bx3B*-
cisiNG THEM. The .ann of the black-
wnith that swings the sledge-hanoiner
is larger than its fellow* The sailqr,
the fanner> the mechanic, postso^s
more physical power, have more ro-
bust constitutionS'than the divine, the
student, or merchant And why?
Because they eaaerctse their physical
powers more. So with the intellect.
In proportion as we exercise any fac-
ulty of the mind, does that faculty
increase in power. The elder Pres-
ident Adams has the following re-
mark respecting the passions: "They
certainly increase, too, by exercise,
like the body ; the love of gold grows
faster than the heap of acq^uisition ;
the love of praise increases by every
l^tifioation, till it stings like an adder
and bites hk^e aserpent; till the man is
i^iserable ev^ry moment he does npt
snuff the incense ; ambition strength-
ens at every advance, and at last
takes possession of the whole soul so
absolutely, that the man sees noth-
mg in the world of importance to
others^r himself but in lus object"
Many persons act with r^pect to
memory as foolishly as \vould the in-
dividual who should carry his arm in
a t^g for months, with the expecta-
tion that it would become vigorous
and powerful TJ?,ey put their mem-
odes in a sling, giye them nothing to
do, and then complaiu that they are
weak and feeble, — that they have
jpoar memories^ And who is to blame ?
If people who wish to remember the
.text they hear at church, or other
matters to which it is necessary a^aln
to refer, will note them down m a
memorandjLuabook, they mtist ^Iw^y s
•expect to have, poor memories, and
always be compelled thus to note
them. A person can not hav^ a gpod
memory, if he mU not use it Those
who have poor .memories have no-
body but themselves to blame.
' Do ^9t tho^ie pcBsons whose busi-
ness coi9i^^ls ifiem tp exercise , their
mejtnga^, hav^ lotentiye on^s^so &r
as the S2ibjects u,pon which they are
e:?;er^ied are concerned 7 Omnibus
and stage -coach driver^ fre^q^enlly do
twenty erran^ on atrip, aad yet they
take m memorandi^m, and seldom
make a mistake. "Formerly/' re-
marks Fowler, " the circus performers
and exhibiters of live animals often
allowed those who visited them in
the forenoon to pass in free in the
.afternoon or evening. If they gave
tickets, they would be transferred, so
that others would go in; hence the
door-keeper was oompelled to re-
member them. * Tp do this, he was
obliged to look sharply, not at their
dress, which might be, changed, but
at their faces. I have s^een scoffe;s of
trials, and every device contrived to
cheat the dpor-keeper> but neyer^aw
a failure. I Regarded this a^ alinp^t
supernatural; but.iv)w see that their
vigorous exercise of Pprijo. enabled
them to carry faces in their eye.
Tliis is practised very successfully pn
our southern and western trsiveiling
routes. The coUectors.on the steam-
boats, -rail-roads, ^c„ are ,Qbliged to
remember who has paid and who npt,
and where they came on board. I
appeal whether theix. power in this
respect, is not. often remarkable — ^, all
from its exercise. Iiji England, there
is a class of persons connected witli
prisons, whose business is to detect
old convicts. They closely scrutinize
every one who is brought in, loqking
at every pecuUarity in the form of
the nose ox. its insertion, at the mouth,
eyes, forehead, shape of the body,
. ^nd rarely allow one who has been
in before to pass, undetected."
If it be conceded, as it unquestion-
ably 7?jm5« be, that exercise is the fun-
damental basis of all improvement of
the memory, still it can not be denied
that method is equally necessary in
conducting that exercise. It needs
no long demonstration to convince
any one that the same labor applied
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fnethodicalfy, will accomplish much
more than without method. The
object of any system of mnemonics
should be to point out the method by
which we can exercise the memory,
and at the same time cultivate the
intellectual faculties in the greatest
degree ; and so far as this object is
accomplished, and only so far» is that
system valuable. That many sys-
tems of mnemonics do not accomplish
this, will not be denied, and, as a con-
sequence, are to a great degree worth-
less. That some principle of classi-
fication should be adopted, all admit;
yet a majority act as if they were
convinced that every one is compe-
tent to prepare his own system ; not
reflecting that the mass of mankind
have not the time, and if they had,
are destitute of the ability or inclina-
tion which is necessary to lead to the
adoption of one. Suppose the mer-
chant or the lawyer should throw into
a promiscuous mass the papers they
wished to preserve; they could not
reasonably expect to be able readily
to find any particular paper that might
be wanted. So if a person should
record all the facts which he wished
to refer to again, without any regard
to the order or classification of them,
he would find it extremely difficult
to find them again. So if a person
attempt to remember facts or acquire
knowledge without any principle of
classification, it will exist in his mind
in fragments, and it will be with the
utmost difficulty that he will ever be
able to get together any two corres-
ponding fragments of ideas.
Suppose the lawyer or merchant
should object to adopting any princi-
ple of classification and arrangement
for his papers on the ground of the
time it would require to armnge them
and the additional la^or it would
itnpose in remembering the principle
of classification adopted? Would
any business man for one moment
admit such an objection as valid? as
weighing one feather against the
adoption of such principle ? And the
1716 Gronovius, 71. Gailpa.
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objection applies to the cultivation
of the mind witli as much less farce
as the improvement of the mind is
of more importance than the preser-
vation of a few scmps of paper.
The basis of all memory is assod-
atUm. By this is meant the principle
that connects two or more thoughts
or objects that have been contem-
plated together, so that when we
think of one, the other will involun-
tarily accompany it It makes no
difference as to the fact of their
being recalled, whether there was
any relation between the ideas or
not. The fact that they were contem-
plated together seems to be the as-
sociating principle. This principle
is exhibited in a great variety of
ways. For instance, if we have
walked across a field in company
with a firiend, the next time we walk
there we shall be reminded, not only
of the former walk, but also of the
topic of conversation, the occasion
of our being there, the state of the
weather, and other attendant circum-
stances. Van Swieten relates of
himself, that he was passing a spot
where the dead body of a dog burst,
producing such a stench as made
him vomit, and that happening to
pass that place some years after, he
was affected by sickness and vomit-
ing, from association.
"Association," says TJpham, "ex-
erts its influence on almost every
thought, — it binds its efficacy on
almost every emotion. Whatever the
time or place, the period of life, the
allotment of mnk or degradation, of
joy or suffering, of sad solitude or
bustling notoriety, it makes no differ-
ence ; it never fails to found its em-
pire and put forth its supremacy
where there is an intellect to con-
template, or a heart to feel." g
It is stmnge, — perhaps the strang-
est of all the mind's intricacies, — the
sudden, the instantaneous manner in
which memory, by a single associa- \
tion, casts wide the door of some
secret chamber in that dark store- :
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house in wliieh Ixmg pawed events
have been shut up for years. That
association may be a look, a tone, a.n
odor, a single word in the cabalistic
sentence of the Arabian tale^ at the
potent magic of which the door
guarded by the robber Forgetf ulness,
is cast suddenly wide, and all the
treasures which he had concealed
are displayed. Upon the memory
of the traveller rushes up the vision
of his youthful days, the sports of
boyhood, the transient cares, the
quarrels soon forgotten, the pains
which passed away like summer
clouds, the pure sweet joys of youth,
and innocence and ignorance of ill,
that never return when once passed
away.
The cultivation of the memory
seems to consist in our ability to
control our associations. If when a
topic is introduced which we have
investigated, we are able so to con-
trol our associations upon that par-
ticular subject as to perceive their
several bearings and relations, pre-
senting those which are pertinent
and proper and withholding those
which have only a remote connec-
tion, it is all the cultivation of mem-
ory we can reasonably desire. The
ability to do this will depend, in a
great measure, upon the method we
have adopted in acquiring knowledge
and cultivating memory.
A person once inquired of tiio Rev.
Andrew Fuller, why it was that he
remembered his sermons better than
those of other ministers. Mr. Fuller
replied, " if I should say to the house
maid, 'Betty, your misUess wants
you to go to the store and get some
sugar, and soap, and cream, and
starch, and tea, and blueing, and
cakes, and butter; she would say,
'Why, I can never remember all
these things.' But if I should say to
her, 'you know your mistress is
going to have company to-morrow,
and she will need tea, and sugar,
and cream, and cakes, and butter;
and that she is going to wash the day
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following, and will need soap, starch
and blueing,' she would say, * now I
can remember it very welL' "
An anecdote is related of Foote,
the comedian, illustmting this princi-
ple. A person was boasting in his
presence of the power of his memory,
upon which he offered to wager a
guinea th^t he would write down
twelve lines that the other could not
repeat correctly after studying as
many minutes. The wager was
accepted, and Foote wrote the fol-
lowing :
*'So she went into the garden to cut
a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie,
and at the same time a great she bear
coming up the street pops its head into
the shop, What I no soap? So he
died, and she very hnprudently mar-
ried the barber, and th^e were present
the Ficvunies, and the JobliUies, a,nd
the GaryuKes, and the grand Ban-
jandrum himself, with the little round
button at the top, and they aUfeUto
playing caXch as catch can, till the
gunpowder ran oia of the heels ^ their
boots'* It is perhaps needless to add
that Foote won the wager. The ab-
sence of analogy between the sev-
eral parts is &e reason why the
example is diflBbult. Another exam-
ple of an opposite nature may illus-
trate this more fully.
"-Hcn/y Eighth, king of England,
had six wives. Two of them he di-
vorced, two he beheaded, aatd two died
natural deaths. The nmnes of three
of them toere Catherine, two Anne,
and one Jaate. The first of the three
Catherines left a daughter na/fned
Mary. The first of the two Annes
left a daughter named Elizabeth, and
ike Jame left a son named Edward,
each of whom ascended the throne of
England, huf' aUof whom died chUd-
less, and with them ended the house of
Tudor:*
The principles of analogy and re-
semblance extend to all the facts
which are presented for our contem-
plation, and it is a matter of the
utmost importance that . we are able
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to trace these analogies and resem-
blances. Observation is the first
step in intellectual progress. The
comparison of our observations seems
to be the second, yet it is obvious
those observations must be remem-
bered before they can be compared.
Where there is a resemblance be-
tween objects, the one will suggest
the other, whether they have been
contemplated together or not.
Mnemonics is the principle of clas-
sification and association methodi-
cally arranged. It consists in mak-
ing use of the knowledge we pos-
sess, to assist us in the acquisition
of more. The little girl who wished
to remember that Romulus slew his
brother Remus, associated it with
Cain's killing Abel. Cain, the first
man bom, slew his brother, Romulus,
the ^rj^ man in Rome, after whom
the city was named, slew his brother.
Was there any danger she would
forget the fact after having thus
associated it. Cain killed Abel.
With this fact she was familiar. In
reading the history of Denmark,
she found that one of the kings
was named Abel; she immediately
thought *Abel was a good man ; let
me see if this was a good king.'
She found that there were two
brothers, Eric and Abel. They
quarrelled. 'Erie must be the bad
man/ thought she, for the principle
of association constantly carried her
back to the first martyr, and Abel
was good. A reconciliation was
proposed and the brothers agreed to
meet. What was the result ? Abel
killed his brothtr ! Would she ever
forget it ? She found that Rome is
sometimes called * the City of the
seven Hills.' To remember that, she
would call the hills by the names of
the days of the week, the number
being the same, and to remember
that there were seven kings iu Rome,
she would imagine one to be stand-
ing on each of the hills, and to re-
member that there were seven Saxon
kingdoms in England, or seven of
1718.
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brad Patnam, 72. Pacre.
the United F^vinces, she might
think ^lere were just enough, so that
each king might have a kingdom and
a province.
We may every where trace anal-
ogies and resemblances. Every-
thing is in some respect like some-
thing that has been. General Wash-
ington was bom in the year 1732,
so was James Necker. George
Washington was connected with a
revolution, so was James Necker.
This single point of resemblance is
suflicient to assodate the two, so
that whenever we should recollect
that Washington was bom in a par-
ticular year, it would remind us of
the birth of Necker. Richard Henry
Lee, one of the signers of the Dec-
laration of Independence, was born
in the same year, also Judge White,
the first settler in Western New York.
We might connect these together by
an association that would be more
readily remembered but not as bene-
ficial to the mind as tracing these
analogies. ' Suppose we should
take such parts of the names as
would form words and arrange them
in ^ sentence thus: Wash, Let^s,
Neckf White, would connect the sev-
eral names so that we should find it
impossible to forget them.
Again, if it was the object to re-
member that Tecumseh, the cele-
brated Indian Chief, was bora in the
year 1769, we could more easily do
it by connecting him with Napoleon
Bonaparte, as 5iey were both born
in the same year. The particular
year might be forgotten, but not the
circumstance that both were bom in
the same year, and supposing that
we had forgotten the particular year
in which they were bom, we might
remember that Napoleon commanded
at the siege of Toulon in 1793, and
that he was 24 years of age at that
time, consequently we should have
the means of ascertaining the year
when Tecumseh was bom. This
would not be the c^e, if we had not
associated the two together. In the
William Penn.
Charles XII, 38.
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PHILOSOPHY OF MNEMONICS.
same manner we should find no diffi-
culty in remembering, that the Duke
of Wellington was bom in the same
year with Napoleon, as they were
competitors upon at least cme battle-
field. So, if I should see stated
the fact that Ney, Soul, or Tallien,
were bom in 1769, I should imme-
diately connect them with Bonaparte,
as they were Frenchmen. If I
should see it stated that in the same
year with the above, five distin-
guished individuals were born, whose
names commenced with the same
letter, it is obvious that after hearing
their names I should be possessed
of a principle which would enable
me at any time to recall them — Clin-
ton (Dewitt,) Canning, Chichester,
(Marquis of Donegal,) Cuvier, and
Chauteaubriand. Several others,
born in the same year, might be
mentioned, but it is not necessary.
The general principle of classifi-
cation is to connect those things you
wish to remember with those which
are perfectly familiar of an analogous
nature. This cultivates not only
memory but comparison, the next
most important faculty we possess.
Without comparison there can be no
reasoning, and if we omit some of
the particulars which should be com-
pared, our conclusions will be likely
to be erroneous.
But the remembrance of dates and
numbers is by far the most difficult
matter to be accomplished. Here
there is no associating principle which
connects the several parts together.
" They are grains of sand which will
not cohere in the order we place
theni." If the number of Bu rgoyne's
army, at the time of his surrender,
5752, should be given us to rerriem-
ber, we could undoubtedly do it by
taking time and pains enough. But
the number 5572 or 5527 or 5257 or
5275, or any other tmnsposition which
we might make, would be just as
easily remembered as the correct
number, and I had almost said just
as likely to be remembered. Sup-
pose I should ask you to remember
the following letters, Aaeuomsh'
sttss, in the order in which they
are plac^^ After spending half an
hour, you might be able to repeat
them, but would be very likely to
forget them in another, half hour.
The reason why it would be difficult
to remember them is obvious ; there
is no principle of association con-
necting them together ; they are like
figures in this respect. If all the
object was to remember the indi-
vidual letters, you would probably
classify them by putting the two a's,
the 2 ^s, and the 4 s*s together, and
learn them in much less time. Sup-
pose I should ask you to remember
the following letters in their order,
Massachusetts, you. would un-
doubtedly glance it over once and tell
me you could repeat all the letters
in their order and remember them as
long as you lived. But why the dif-
ference ? Are the letters any easier
to remember tlian the others? Cer-
tainly not, for they are the same iden-
tical letters / But where is the dif-
ference then'' Simply in their ar-
rangement.
Formerly letters were used to rep-
resent numbers, and they are thus
used to some extent at present. It
is obvious that it is a matter of no
consequence what the sign of a num-
ber may be, provided it is equally
convenient with any other. There
is no objection made to the using of
letters to represent numbers by any
author that I have ever read. I may
use DCXIII for 613, but if I wished
to remember that Clotaire was king
of France in 613, and should say,
" he sat upon the throne of France
without a rival," it would be "ex-
tremely arbitrary and fictitious," to
use the word sat to represent the
date, though I mjght wish to employ
it to express the fact. It is not arbi-
trary or fictitious to use letters to
represent numbers, because that is
done by all learned men. But to
arrange these letters so that the date
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may be easily remembered is ex-
tremtly artificial, and consequently
extremehj objectionable! But, seri-
ously, I will venture to affirm that
no philosophical objection can be
raised to thd principle of substituting
letters as the signs of numbers : that
no objection can be sustained against
arranging those letters into words,
incorporating them into sentences
describing facts, and using them to
express numbers. It is a fact that
" Roderic, the Gothic king, after the
battle of Xeres, attempted to pa^s
the Graudelquiver and was drowned."
Now, what possible objection can
there be in having some word of that
sentence, which will express the
date, printed in such a manner as to
indicate the fact that it represents
the date. The word pass, according
to our key, represents 712, the date.
Is the fact stated any more liable to
be forgotten from that circumstance ?
Certainly not. What then is the ob-
j ection ? It is arbitrary and fictitious.
Is there any natural association he-
ivreen pass and 712? inquires the
objector. Certainly not; but it is
because there is no such thing as
natural association. Is there any
natural association between the
death of Roderic and 712? Of
course not, admits the objector. One
question further — which do you find
the easiest to remember, the facts
stated or the date? Most persons
readily admit the date to be most
difficult. Upon the principle here
adopted, the labor of remembering
the date is obviated ; we know that
as soon as we learn the fact. But,
continues the objector, you are com-
pelled to translate the letters into
figures. Not at all. Are figures the
natural representatives of numbers.
By no means. It is just as philo-
sophical to use letters or any other
signs as those we do use.
"Dr. Harvey discovers the circu-
lation of the blood in man.** The
word expressing the date of the dis-
covery is man representing 1619. It
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is well enough to know that the dis-
covery of the circulation of the blood
through the human system was dis-
covered, but so unnatural that man
should represent it ! It is well enough
to know that " the Portuguese wished
slaves to prepare their food" and so
commenced the African slave-trade.
But it would be extremely arbitrary
to represent the date 1482 by food,
or any other word in the sentence.
We might suppose they would laugh
when the English- by Sir John Haw-
kins engaged in the trade, but you
had better be ignorant of the date
than have 1563 represented by laugh.
It is well enough to know that they
first sell slaves in Virginia in 1620,
but the word sell must not repre-
sent it.
The whole question turns upon
one point, and no cavilling or objec-
tion can get by it. It is this. Is it
easier to remember tvords thwa figures?
Can we remember words of 6, 8 or
10 letters easier than combinations
of 6, 8 or 10 figures. But, objects
one, we have a faculty for remem-
bering numbers and consequently
we ought to cultivate it, as all oar
faculties were given us to be culti-
vated. But it does not follow that
because we can remember that Rod-
eric was drowned in the year 712,
that it is rational to spend as much
time in learning that single date as
is necessary to learn twenty. It
would be just as reasonable (because
we have the power, and because
exercise strengthens our powers) to
take a maul and belabor a giant oak
while the same effort rationally di-
rected would convert the whole tree
into fire wood, as to attempt to re-
member numbers because we can.
The objector mii^t first prove that
we are so constituted that it was
intended we should remember num-
bers arbitrarily and without any asso-
ciation before we are called upon to
retreat from our position. When
that is done we will surrender. Our
object in study should be the culti-
Madam Dacier, 69. Dig sow.
Dr. Willlnin Robertson, 72. Bexpe.
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vation of the intellect, the expanding
of the mind, and if this can be ac-
complished mosti successfully by-
spending ten times as long as neces-
sary in remembering the fact and
then forgetting it in as short a time
afterwards, do it by aU means! If
you can prepare more fire-wood by
mauling the oak, or gain more strength
than otherwise, lay on the blows
thick and heavy.
But, continues the objector, it is
only the most important dates that
W6 desire to remember. If we
attempt to remember top much we
become confused. This is not so,
and it ought not to be so. In the
first place, it is false that we only
desire to remember the most impor-
tant facts. I never found the indi-
vidual whose desires were thus lim-
ited. And it is false, that the more
we try to remember the more we
become confused. I grant, in the
first place, that it is desirable to
remember the most important things
first and the details afterward, and
that what we learn should continu-
ally be the most important. The
more we learn upon any subject the
clearer become our conceptions, the
less the labor of acquisition and the
greater the capacity for retaining
more. For every fact we treasure
up in the store-house of memory we
make room for two more. This is
the law ; and in face of it, who dare
say we can remember too much if
we constantly remember what is
most important ? The truth is, those
who urge this objection cannot find
any more plausible excuse for their
ignorance.
Ignorance, dark and all-pervading
shrouds our most intelligent commu-
nities. There is no disguising the
fact as well as no denying it. We
are all conscious that it is so, and
those who are the best informed are
those most sensible of how little
they know in comparison with what
they ought There is, with regard
to numbers, some excuse for igno-
rance. Besides the difficulty of re-
membering there is another diffi-
culty, that of ascertaining what is
true and what is false. I do not
mean what is absolutely true, but
what is so considered by intelHgent
men. Let me take the census of
Philadelphia for 1840 as an illustra-
tion. I find in the United States
Almanac, published in Philadelphia,
for 1844, the census of the city put
down at 205,580. I look into Has-
kell's Gazetteerof the United States
and find it 220,423. I look into the
American Almanac (usually correct)
and find it 228,69 1 . Another author-
ity giv^s it 258,832. How is an
ordinary reader to ascertain the truth
in such a matter ? I confess myself
unable to determine.
Blake, in his Biographical Dic-
tionary, speaking of Francis Hop-
kinson, says, " In this station (Judge
of the Admiralty) he continued till
1796, when he was appointed Judge
of the District Court. He died
1791, aged 53." From this state-
ment, how is a person to ascertain
what is true? In speaking of Thomas
Pownal, he says, •* He died at Bath,
much respected, 1795, aa^ed 73.*' In
his table of American Biography, he
states his death as happening " Feb-
ruary 25, 1805, aged 83." He states
that Sir Jefl!rey Amherst " was bom.
1727," and "died August 3, 1797,
aged eighty years." The word eighty
was printed. Speaking of Hugh
Mercer he says, " He was with
Braddock in the campaign of 1785."
He says of William Livingston, he
"was bom about the year 1741," and
" died July 25, 1790, aged 67 ! "
Hale, in his History of the United
States, Introduction, k 22, says, " The
religious wars which afflicted France
in the "sixteenth century, induced
that illustrious statesman, Jasper
Coligni, the head of the Protestant
sect in France, to project, in 1502, a
settlement in America." Coligni
was bora in 1516, and killed August
24, 1572, at the massacre of St. Bar-
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Iholomew. In the French War, } 52,
53, he says " For the next compaign
(1758) the ministry determined upon
three expeditions, one of twelve
thousand men (Holmes & Frost say,
14,000) against Louisburg; one of
sixteen thousand (Holmes says,
15,391) against Ticonderoga and
Crown Point, and one of eight thou-
sand (Holmes says, ,8,800) against
Fort Du Quesne ." A little below,
he says, " The expedition against
Ticonderoga was commenced by
General Abercrombie. The army
consisted of seven thousand regulars
and ten thousand provincials,** which
of course make sixteen thousand.
The true number of regulars was
6,367, the provincials, 9,024, making
15,391. Speaking of Wolfe, he says,
** Whenever an (J^portunity occurred,
Greneral Wolfe, who was then young ,
displayed all that fire, impetuosity
and discretion which afterwarda im-
mortalized his name." Wolfe lived
after this thirteen months and twenty
days. So much for a dozen lines of
a "History of the United States,"
which received a premium o^ four
hundred dollars and a gold medal!
On four pages of Parley*s Common School History, commencing with
the 321st page, may be found the following errors, which 1 discovered in
glancing hastily over them.
Solon, Law-giver of Athens, given 643, correct, 594
Venice founded,
Battle of Bannockbum,
Portuguese discover the Cape of Good Hope,
Gustavus Vasa expelled the Danes,
Republic of Holland founded,
Otho, king of Greece,
" Capture of Louisburg by Wolfe ! 1758," will be found in another place.
421,
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452
1313,
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1481,
II
1486
1525,
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1523
1581,
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1579
1829.
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The foregoing examples are given
as specimens, to show the manner in
which children are taught
In conclusion permit us to stiy, as
certainly as a person may choose be-
tween virtue and vice, between in-
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telligence and ignomnce, so certainly
may a person choose between a good
memory and a poor one. " The fool
hath a price put into his hands but no
heart to improve it"
2722. Andrew Dacfer, 71. Duffpa.
S& Negroes executed as CoMpiraton in Charleston^ S. C, 18-22,
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EXPLANATION. ^
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The Analytical Basis is founded upon the classijlcation of piinci-
pics, and explains how we may make use of those principles in the ac-
quisition of oth.ers, in obedience to the laws of association.
There are few persons, however well informed they may be upon a
^ibject, who are prepared to speak well and clearly, without premedita-
tion, and an arrangement of their ideas. Nor is this to be expected while
the present methods of acquiring knowledge are practised. We are taught
to acquire ideas at one time, and arrange them at anotlier, and the conse-
quence is, that they are never arranged. What we postpone, to do at some
convenient season, is never done. The error lies in not arranging and classi-
fying facts as we proceed ; then we should be prepared to use our knowl-
edge whenever occasion occurred. 5 j^
But the inability to use our previous acquisitions is not the only, or < '^
the greatest evil which we sutler as a consequence of this course. \ ::s
The difficulties of acquiring knowledge are increased fourfokL We are \ X
precluded, to a great extent, the use of association, the only principle that / '^
enables uato remember. Consequently, we are compelled to resort to the \' S
drilling process -^ i\ie wearing ihe '\dQ9i m\o \\\e mind hy repetition, till we
can repeat it meclianically, and not unfrcquently without being any wiser. \ :
I appeal to every man's common sense to say if it is not so. . \ \
A vivid impression, conveying a full apprehension of the idea, may be < •
made in obedience to the laws of association instantaneously, which an \
hour's drilling would fail to accomplish. A person properly educated, would i 3
be able to speak upon any subject which he had investigated, at any "*
time, or upon any occasion, without a moment's premeditation. Those
who will investigate this subject, I doubt not will come to the same
conclusion ; others may deem it visionary.
All subjects may be naturally divided into a certain numhcr of princi-
ples, or particulars. These subjects are to be classified with reference to
the number and ardcr of the principles or particulars. Thus the Decalogue,
and the Flagv4S of Egypt would be classed together as containing the \
same number of particulars. These particulars become points of remem- I
brance for others of, or belonging to, the same numerical class. Thus, if I
we desired to remember that WiUiam the Conqueror had ten children, ]
we might associate them with the ten Plagues of Egypt in the order of i
their birth. This principle is equally applicable to all subjects, as will be I
seen from the variety of examples given in the Basis ; and though it may
be " a complete system of classification," it does not follow that the classifica-
tion must necessarily be complete. It is only intended as an illustration
of the principle.
For farther illustration, see the appUcation to the Constitution of the Uni-
ted States, and other examples. i
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1723. ?*^?%?^*l®r, 77.JS5iee*rM«. D.of Marlborough, 73. JlfaiWoeo. '
1^ Lord Ersrkine, Nov. 17. Riego executed, Nov. 27.
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LEARNING THE SYMBOLS.
CHRONIC SYMBOLS.
Correspondmg to the Years of any Century.
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The symbols corres-
pond to the years of any
given century, conse-
quently they are one hun-
dred in number. The rea-
son why familiar objects
are taken to represent
numbers is twofold, Fa-
miliar objects are mare
readily remembered and
m^re easily associated with
other objects.
It is known and admit-
ted that we remember
every thing by calling to
our aid the principle of
association. Contemplate
a single circumstance^ or
recall a single idea uncon-
nected with any other,
and then you may call
in question the truth of
this statement, but liot till
then.
Locality is a principle
of association. We re-
member things by seeing
lahere they were, by seeing
their relation to other
things. In learning the
symbols we made use of
familiar localities. A room
is taken as the basis of
association. The room is.
considered as having four sides, bounded by the four comers, and consid-
ered in the following order : North, East, South, and West. We set up
our landmarks by numbering the northwest corner one; the northeast
corner twenty -five; the southeast j'S/iJy, and the southwest seventy-fioe.
It will be seen that this division assigns ivjenty-Jive to each side. A
division of sides is then made, taking every fifth, and altogether forming
twenty localities. This matter will be more fully understood by reference
to the following figure.
4
TeKfc
SjmboU.
Indiou.
Tew«.
BjmboU.
iDdleet.
8f \
BariTie r
S
r 51
T.iniC':- rw
6
•c
'2
Hy&ii 4
1
62
TirllirVlla
1
5
e
3
Tabl e
2
53
IM It
2
4
rox-tr«
4
54
Lii mp
3
1
h
y^mi
5
J?
65
4
6
S aw
6
o
66
Vrii
6
2
7
CluU r
2
67
Oai-
8
Ciinfl
2
68
CIpft*
1
9
NiW
3
69
rrr t>u)
2
10
A£ o
4
60
'i'uljaftc e
4
11
BarreZ
6
61
yin ih
5
12
Bear
62
6
U
^\g
J
63
14
Bottl
2
9
64
(i].>V f!
2
S)
15
Goa<
3
65
il L^^ktj t
3
16
Whce \
5
Cfi
M&si
4
17
Apple «
Guitar
6
67
Spoo /
jfoo r
6
18
68
19
Aimi'.mda
1
69
Sofa
1
20
J^L^ISn i
3
70
Pyrami a
2
21
11 1^^/n.bEc/
4
71
Parro t
3
22
f;jjiiii^ }
5
72
renci I
5
2a
iJLii^L; m
6
73
Peachc s
6
24
l>o^
1
74
Pon y
18
25
El«?ptin nf
2
18
75
Puin a
1
26
EtskLtic J
3
76
CAt
3
27
\\ r«?
4
77
T>esk
4
28
BruQ m
6
78
hark
5
29
Turke y
79
IIO »7»
6
UO
Ju j7
1
80
Boo >t
1
31
EaKl e
2
81
Caj?*
2
32
Jethr
4
82
Crick e /
3
33
Palf
5
83
Slica/
4
22
34
To WM
Tumble r
6
22
84
Co r»
5
35
85
Cup
36
Imag «
Trninpp /
2
86
Bru fh
1
37
3
87
Cradl e
2
38
H,i n'
4
88
Calic
4
fr.
S(|.iiir..- I
5
89
Sliaw Z
5
40
0^sr( 1-
90
Peace ci
6
41
Scjr ^/'
1
91
m vg
42
F-ih--:
2
92
Trlewcop «
2
26
43
ScE-.-^hri
3
26
m
Wildca <
3
44
Qi^a \
5
94
Lea/
4
45
SkLi /^ji
6
95
OwZ
I
46
O^tii ^K
96
Tra p
47
Fn» g
1
97
Wi(7
1
48
Bou f
3
98
Goose
2
49
Co:l*,-tf
4
99
Ua«
3
L50
Aw/
5
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P( tat
4
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1724.
Humphrey Prideaux, 77 Peer
\rue.
Lord Byron, April 19.
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North
X
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A<y
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90
West
ROOM.
85
80
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South.;
20 25 This plan must be made
perfectly familiar, by hav-
ing the numbers associated
with the localities of your
30 room ; so that, upon the lo-
cality being pointed out,
you are reminded of the
number; you may then
35 commeiice with the cor-
East. ft^TSy and place the objects
40 constituting the symbols in
those localities. Thus, in
the northwest comer, place
the banner, for l ; in the
45 northeast the elephant,
for 25; in the southeast
the awl, for 50 ; and the
puma in the southwest
for 75. After these four
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15 10 65 '"'60 55 50
symbols are perfectly familiar, you may take up the north side, locating
every fifth symbol, and proceeding in the same manxer till the twenty
are so familiar you can repeat them backward as well as forward. It is
very essential that these twenty be perfectly learned.
The following will illustrate the manner :
Banner. Vessel.
1 5
Azo.
10
Goat.
15
Ba%et.
20
OwL
95
Peacock. 90
Cup.
85
Book. 80
y
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BOOM.
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X
Elephant
25
30 Jug.
35 Tumbler
40 Oyiter.
45 Skulls.
When the twenty lo-
cated symbols are familiar,
you may take the one
immediately following,
and associate the two to-
gether. Thus, the symbol
for one is banner, to
which tie up the hyena,
the symbol for two. On
the deck of the vessel,
five^ you lay the saw, six,
Azo^ ten, places her right
hand upon a barrel, for
eleven ; the goat is tied up
15 70 65 CO 55 50
Puma. Pyra'd. Musket. Tobacco. Loaf. Awl.
to the wheel, in the basket you place the handkerchie](^ and beside
the elephant stands the enunet. You will proceed in this manner
till you have associated twenty symbols with the twenty you first
learned, and then you are familiar with forty of the hundred. It is neces-
sary to keep up the distinction between the first twenty learned and
the. last.
After the forty are familiar, you may associate all the symbols of each
locality together. Thus, to the banner you have tied up the hyena,
and to confine him still more, place the table so that it may be an o])stacle
to his getting away ; and bear in mind that the table stood under the
shade of a tree, the fax-tree, to which the vessel was moored. In
the same manner proceed with each locality. As an illustmtion of the
value of local association, I may say, that a majority of persons would
1725.
Charles Townscnd, 42. Tel aid.
Dr. S. Parr, March 6.
Mrs. A. L. Barbauld, March 9.
Emperor Alexander, Dec. l.
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spend over three lumrs, to sit down and study the list, and yet we can
teach them to classes more perfectly, by adopting this principle, in forUj-
Jive minutes ! It has repeatedly been done.
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; KuLB. To calculate the day of the week.
1. To the day of the monili^ add the index of the months and the index of the year; reject
the Severn^ and take the remainder^ which is the day of the week.
NOTES.
1. Every fovarih vear is Leap Year, excepting the last in the century, of which every fmrih
century in Xieap Year. Every fourth year is Leap Year in Old Style.
2. To calculate a date in January or February of Leap Year, deduct one from the re-
mainder.
3. To calculate a date in any other century, the index of the century must be added.
4. Each successive century in Old Style commenced one day earlier in the week, as will
be seen by the following table :
CENTURIES.
.^ 5 Old Style 0.
^^* \ New Style 4.
5. Old and New Style diflTer
now twelve days. The style was
changed October 5th, 1552, by
Pope Gregory Xm.
OU Style,
IruTs.
New StyU,
1
201
901
1801
2201 1
2601
301
1001
6
401
1101
5
1901
2301
2701
5.
9
501
1201
4
2001
2401
2801
Ch.
601
1301
3
Era
701
1401
2
1701
2101
2501
2901
101
801
1501
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INDICES OF THE MONTHS.
1. June.
2. September, December, gf"
3. April, July, o
4. January, October, §•
5.. May, g-
6. Auo:ust, g
0. Feb'y, March, NovV, *
Jane's Banner.:
See and Deck.
Foolish Julia.
New and Old.
Fifth Month.
Saw a gust
Mars No Fever.
Of all the dates since Julius Csesar bled,
Which one could mention In a thousand rears,
Not one hut could be solved as quick 8fl said,
By those who listeu fvlth mnemonie ears.
Chronics is a system of Quotidian Chronology, which enables the person who
understands it to answer the day of the week for any date that may be stated.
Its importance, in enabling us to settle satisfactorily certain disputed points in Chro-
nology, can scarcely be overrated. To instance one, about which there has been
much disagreement, we need only refer to the question, * Whether the 'Vulgar be
the true Christian Era, or not ? ' It has been maintained by some, that the Chris-
tan Era is in error th-ee years ; others contend that the error is one of four years /
while others as confidently assert it to be six. Chronics settles the question with math-
ematical certainty in favor of the error of six years^ and demonstrates the impossi-
bility of either of the other suppositions being correct.
Its importance in the remembrance of dates can scarcely be overrated, as its
testimony is of that nature which Justifies a person in being positive of the Accuracy
of his statement. To the lawyer it gives the ability to detect, instantly, discrepan-
cies in testimony, which otherwise would have escaped his closest scrutiny. It su-
persedes the necessity of an Almanac as far as the day of the week or the month is
concerned ; and when it is seen that, through the medium of Mnemonics, it can be
taught for a longer period than the earth has existed, in the space of an Jiour's time,
80 that the question which the mathematician could not solve in a months the school-
1726.
William S. Johnson, 93. Jares ota. Bishop R. Heber, April 3.
William Gifford, Esq., Dec 31. Sir J. S. RafBes, July 5.
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SYSTEM OP CHRONICS.
boy may answer in a minute, — inducements will not be wanting to the lover of science
to investigate its principles.
^^ Bear, in mind, those only who are acquainted with K. & TV. C Pike's System
OF Mnemonics, can expect to learn CniiONics thus quickly, as it has never yet been
taught through any otJier medium.
After having become familiar with the principles of Mnemonics, suppose you procure
an Almanac for some one of the following years :
1806, 1817, 1823, 1828, 1834, 1845, or 1851.
Next write down on a slip of paper the days of the week ia their order, commencing
with Sunday, which you may number 1, und the rest in their order, as they are
written. Then against Sunday write the name of the month which commences on that
day, and so continue to do till you have them all written, dowa, and see if you have not
formed the following table :
1. Sunday J June.
2 1 r ^ 5 September, The nmnbers at the left hand
^' ) December. may be called Indices, because
o /x» . j April, tbey indicate the day of the
. uesaay, i July. week on which the seteral
A TV ^ ^ J January, months commence in the years
. 4. weanesaay, j Q^^^ober. ^efo^d mentioned. To ascer-
5. Thursday, May. tain the day of the week for
J 6. "Friday, August any date in those years, you will
\ ( February, ; refer to the day of the week on
7. Saturday, •< March, which the month commenced.
( November.
The Indices of the months may be learned upon the principle of adding some and
subtracting others by the following doggrel ; those months having the sign — to be sub-
tracted, and the others are to be added :
March November February ) ^
Let Mars ... the Knave . . . o'er Fever . reign, |
August — > June } -
One fVom Augustus . . . give to Jane. . . . j
May — September December ) ^
Mary . . . has lost both Sam . . . and Dai^e, )
October — January — ^prti July \ ^
Old . . John . . . three Apus ... for Julia . . . save, y
The day of the month is to be taken as the starting point in ascertaining the day of
the week. Take art example in any of the following years :
1801, 1807, 1812,* 1818, 1829, 1835, 1840,* or 1846, ^
and by adding the index of the pwnth to the day of the month, and dropping the sevens,
the remainder will be the day of the week for the date, taken <
July 4«, in any of those years. This, however, will not be [
Day of July 4 > *^® ^^s®> unless particular years ^
Index of July 3 C -=^ ^ Saturday* \^ taken, and so it is necessary I
to attend to another circum^ I
December 25, m any of those years. stance, and that is the index of ^
. Day of the month, 25 > ^ . ^ . , the year. These indices will be i
Index of December, 2>"^'^^ — ^^^-^^ ^*"^^* found on the termination of the i
Symbol eorresrponding to the year taken. For an illustration of this refer to the table I
headed Chronio Symbols, and you vnW find the letter or letters representing the >
indecc of any particular year printed in italic. These Symbols s^e used as the repre- J
sentatives of tno years of any century to which they are applied. <
The years of a century are divided into Common and Leap Years. The Common <
Years consist of 365 days, or 62 weeks and 1 day. If there were but 52 week» in a \
year, each sulfeequent year would commence on the same day of the week ; but the one i
day ciuises each successive year to commence one day later until Leap Year comes in ta >
{ disturb this order. It is equally obvious, that if it was not for Leap Year, every i
I * January and iV^mary excepted. <.
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1727 ®*^ Isaac Newton, 85. Needcu. George Canning, Aug. 27.
Dr. J. Mason Good, Jan. 2. Dugald Stewart, June II.
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SYSTEM OF CHRONICS.
seventh year would commence on the same day of the week again, and thus run on in
an endless cycle. But after having proceeded regularly for three years^ Leap Year comes
in with 366 days, or 52 weeks and 2 days, and thus produces a variation of two days.
From Leap Year, and the first Year after Leap Year, till the year commences on the
same day of the week again, is six years ; from the first year hejhre Leap Year it is
five years ; and from the second year after or before Leap Year, it is a period equal to
both the others ; viz., eleven years.
Years. Period.
1 First after Leap Year, 6
7 First before Leap Year, 5
12 Leap Year, 6
18 Second from Leap Year, 11
•29 First after Leap Year, 6
35 First before Leap Year, 5
40 Leap Year, 6
46 Second ftK)m Leap Year, 1 1
57 First after Leap Xear, 6
68 First before Leap Year, 5
68 Leap Year, 6
74 &c. Second from Leap Year, 11
The annexed list of years,
of which the index is a cypher,
will illustrate the principle.
EXAMPLES
1. The Battle of New Means was fought January
8, 1815. What day of the week?
Day of the month, 8 ")
t representing the index, 8 )
2. Battle of Waterloo, June 18, 1815.
of the weekf
Day of the mohth, 1 8 "|
Index of June, 1
Symbol for 1 5, Goat,
Lidexofl815, 8
What day
=:22=i:l. Sunday.
What
= 14 = 0. Saturday.
3. Napoleon Bonaparte died May 5, 1821.
day of the week t
Day of the month, 5 ^
Index of May,
Symbol for 21,
Handkerchief,
4. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died July 4,
1826. What day of the week f
Day of the month, 4 1
Index of July, 3
Symbol for 26,
Emmet, 3 J
5. The Steamboat Lexington burnt in Long Island
Sound, January 13, 1840. What day of the week f
Day of the month,
Index of January,*
Symbol for 40,
Oyster,
[-=10 = 3. Tuesday.
:1
=: 1 7 — 1 = 2. Monday.
The entire rule for the calcu-
lation of the day of the week
may be stated as follows : —
To the DAY OF THE MONTH
add the index of the month,
and the index of the year ;
reject the sevens^ and take the
remainder.
Note. In the Symbols, where
a letter is used representing 7,
a cypher is placed, upon the
principle of rejecting the sevens.
For various particulars see the
table headed System of
Chronics.
The process for ascertaining
the day of the week in any
other century than the present,
is the same, with the addition
of the centennial index, which
may be found in the table of
* System of Chronics.' To un-
derstand how that table was
formed, it will be neces.«<ary to
give an explanation of Old and
New Style.
The Roman Calendar was
reformed by Julius Cassar, for-
tjr-five yeare before the Chrifl-
tian Era. It is not necessary
to explain the causes which led
to this reform. It is enough for
the present purjfbse to know,
that it was made, and in what
it consisted. Julius Csesar as-
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• See * System qf Cbronies^* NoU 2.
1728- Dr. Friend, 53. jPoi7/€a.
Horatio Gates, 78- Garecpoo.
Cotton Mather, 65. Maut awl
John Stark, 94. SpeU no.
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6. Q^een Victoria was married February 10, 1840. sumed the lei^ of the year to
What day of the week? be 365 days and 6 hours. It
Day of the month, 10^ • ^*^ '^^^^^ ^^, ,«^^°' ^h^*, *^«
Index of February* o\,. , _^ ^^ , , f" ¥"" ^^^"^^ ^^"^^ *« *
Index of 1840, represent- ^=10-l=:2.M>nJay. day m 4 years, and conse-
ed bv Oyster quenUy the fourth year was
r T? xr' . 1- f A n -rrr, , made to coHsist of 366 days,
7. W, H. HaiTison died AprU 4, 1841. What day ^jjiie the three previous years
of the week f contained but 365. This fourth
Day of the month, 4"] year was termed Bissextile, or
Index of April, 3 I r. - c,.„/^/„. Leap Year. This method of
1841, Symbol, Scarf , ^ — o— i. ounaay. computation continued till the
rf represents 1 J year 1 582, although it had been
8. Andreto Jackson died June 8, 1845. What day t^TlT^ T^'TrnH t^I
of the week^ h^tore^ that time. It had been
'^ * found, in settling the festivals
Day of tiie month, 8 ^ of the church, that in the year
Lidex of June, 1 I j^ _ ^ Sundav 325, at tiie time of the General
Sy°;)>olfor45, r — ^ ^ council of Nice, that the Ver-
SkullSj mdex, 6 J ual Equinox occurred on the
21st of March. In the year 1582, the Vernal Equinox occurred on the 11th of March,
§* J thus anticipating the time ten days. The error was corrected by Pope Gregory XIIL,
y I v^ the same year, by callinff October 6th the 16th, and continuing the rest of the days in
rt I order. So it must be obvious, that the month of October in that year contained but
,5 > 21 days.
^ J The error of Julius Caesar consisted in 8uj)p06ing the year 11 minutes (omitting the
fractions) longer than it is, and this variation in a hundred years amounts to 18
hours and some minutes ; consequently in 400 years it amounts to 3 days.
Hours hours hours
Thus, 18 X 4 = 72-i- 24 = 8 days.
The rule of Julius Ceesar was to call every fourth year Leap Year, which resulted
in an error of three days in every four hundred years ; consequendy every fourth year
may be Leap Year minus three in every four hundred years. The rule adopted was
that the last year in three successive centuries should be common years, and the Leap
Year retained only on the fourth. In order that the rule for ascertaining on what
centuries the Leap Year was retained might correspond with the rule for finding Leap
Year, it was decreed that these last years in the centuries which could be divided by
400, without a remainder, should be considered Leap Year ; and those which could not,
were to be classed as common years.
Thus, the last year in the 16th century, 1600, was to be considered a Leap Year,
because, divided by 400, there would be no remainder; but 1700, 1800, and the last
S i year in the present century, 1900, are to be considered common years.
&, < A century, Old Style, contains 36.525 days.
T. days davs
Thus, 100 X 3651^ = 36.525, or 5.217 weeks & 6 days.
It is obvious, that if there was another day in a century, there would be an even
number of weeks ; consequently, each successive century would commence on the
same day of the week ; but there being six days over, each successive century is
thrown forward six days, which causes each successive century to commence one
day in the week earlier than the preceding. Each common year consists of a number
of weeks, and one day over, which causes the next year to commence one day later.
The century wants one day to be composed of entire weeks, so the next century com-
mences one day earlier.
Every fourth century, in New Style, contains just the same number of days that a
century in Old Style does; consequently the variation between that and the pre-
ceding centuipy is only one day. The other centuries in New Style contain one day
* See * Syitem qf Chronies,' Note 2.
1729 ^^ Blchard Steele. Charles Thompson, 95. nen youth.
Oliver Goldsmith, 45. Gdidpm ail. Or.Samuel Clarke, 54. Coil thee. '
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less than a century of Old Style. TKe variation in Old Style between successive
centuries was one, in New Style it is one more, making it two. In the table beaded
* System of Chronics* the centuries are named from the year which commences them.
Thus, the present century is named 1801, because 1801 was the Jirst year in the
present century. The number in the column headed * Indices * against 1801 is the
index of the present century, not that particular year, and so of the rest
In the same table, Note 2, is a matter which needs some explanation. Leap Year
contains 3G6 days. The additional day is Febniarj^ 29th ; consequently the months of
January and February are not affected by it. Tliere should be two indices given for
every Leap Year ; but inasmuch as this would be attended with inconvenience, the
index of the ten months, taken as a year, is given, and the year consisting of January
and February has its index found by deducting one.
ri841 has an index of 1
1842 " " 2
Thus,^ 1843 " " 3
1 ft44 5 January and February, 4
[ I The remaining months, 5
In calculating a date in those months, I use the -indei for the rest of the year, and
deduct one.
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1. The Crucifixion, March 26, A. D, 28.*
Day of the month, 26 "1
Index of the month,
Index of the year, 28,
Index of the century, 2 J
2. Massacre of the Christians by Dioclesion, Decemr
ber 25, 303.
Day of the month, 25 "]
Index of December, 2 oka c .. j
Index of the year, 3, 2 ^35 = 0. Saturday.
Index of the century, 300, 6 J
3. Flight of Mahomet from Mecca, July 16, 622.
Day of the montli, 16 "|
Index of July, 3
Index of the year 22, 5
Index of the century, 3 ^
^=84:=::6. Friday,
y=z27z=i6, Friday,
4, Discovery of land by Cplumbm, October 12, 1492.
Day of the month, 12")
Index of October, 4 ( ^^ e -c* -i
Index of the year 92, 2 f= ^^ = *'• ^'"^"y-
Index of the century, 2-J
6. Massacre of St. Bartholomew, Axtgust 24, 1572.
Day of the month, 24 "]
Index of Aufrust, 6 1 „/? ■• o ?
Index of the°year 72, 5 f = ^6 = 1' ^^^V-
Index of the centur}-, 1 J
Upon the principle that no
good could come out of Naza-
reth, the Reformed Calendar
was not adopted in Great Brit-
ain and her Colonies, till 1752.
Consequently, the eriw had
amounted to 11 days.
Russia is the only country of
Europe which still adheres to
the Old Style. Her dates are
1 2 days behind ours. From the
circimistance, that sometimes
the same dates are given in Old
Style, and sometimes in New,
two indices are given to 1601.
The index of 1601, if the style
had not been changed, would
have been 0, or 7. The change
or error was 10 days ; dropping
the 7 we have 3 left, which de-
ducted from X leaves 4 as the
index of 1601 ic^: Xr^^ Style.
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1730 ^'Ui™ I5llcry» ^^- ^^^'*^!lM
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William Soaitrte, 75. JKa o%u
WiUiara Hazlitt, Sept 18.
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CHAPTER II,
Knowledge is a collection of the
fragments of Truth, and though it is
not wisdom, yet it is the only source
from whence wisdom can be drawn.
The mind is so constituted, that the
more knowledge we acquire, the easier
becomes the process. Mnemonics t^kes
advantage of this law of the mind, by
making each prominent idea the centre
around which others are collected, and
with which they are associated. Yet
it is a truth that all will learn, sooner
or later, that whatever assistance we
may receive froin others, still we fnnst
lahor^ or be content to remain in
ignorance; there is no alternative.
'* There is no excellence without great
labor. It is the fiat of fate, from
which no power of genius can absolve
you."
RULES, EXPLANATIONS AND EXAMPLES.
The niles are twenty-six in number, oorresponding to the leUers of the
alphabet, which are used to refer to the rules. Special rules are introduced
as they are needed, and where a capital letter is used it refers to a special
rule under the principal one. The Key and Rules must be familiarly
learned.
Letteks.
Rule L
Letters are substituted ^or figures,
a.
and numbers are represented by words.
Examples.
16 Amon murdered by a «io5, 641
17 Jeremiah prophesies to men^ 629
18 Alyattes IL, Kingof Lydia, but a man, . . 619
19 The sad destruction of Nineveh, .... 612
20 Josiah slain in battle, historians say, ... 610
21 Nebuchadnezzar recovers his reason to vse, . . 562
22 Daniel in the lions' den — not a lion moved his Up, 537
23 Smcrdis or Artaxerxes led to usurp the throne of
Persia, 522
24 The plague of Athenf^, destroyed not a/^f, - • 429
25 Amyrtaeus, the /^^ King of Egypt, ... 413
26 Archelaus, the/o^ King of Macedon, . . . 413
27 The Mausoleum erected, at which many tug, . 351
2S Ochus subdues Cyprus, with a tug, .... 351
29 Many of the Jews taken captive in a jng, . . 351
30 Plebeians admitted to the censorship, for which they
tm • f'
31 Decius dies for Rome, with >t>y, .... 3-10
32 Battle of Arbela,Darius's last y/^, . . . . 33i
33 Hannibal Jias a victory at Cannae, . . .21^
34 The Romans take Syracuse, which the Carthagini-
ans /i^wi, 2rj
35 The battle of Zama, produces a crimson dy^, . 202
36 Precision of the Equinoxes, the work of God ? . 142
37 The Cimbric war, calls for the battle axe, . 102
38 The death o/ Julius Caesar, 44
39 Temple of Janus, shut Inf universal peace, . 10
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Jolrn EwiBg, 71. Erigpa.
Rev. Robert HadL Feb. 2L
John Abernethy, April 20.
William Roscoe, June 30.
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BuLi II. b. Diphthongs.
The vowels are a, e, i, o, u. Two vowels united in one syllable form a
^A<A(W^, representing one figure y upon the principle of ocWmg the value of
the separate letters together. Tripthongs, or the union of three vowels^ fol-
low the same rule.
B. C. Examples. A. D.
How avow? drowning the children, 1512 \ The French massacre avoids 1572
Rule IIL c. Combinations.
Two or more consonants, united in one syllable, represent but one figure,
upon the principle of addition. If the amount of the combination exceeds
9, take the unit figure.
B. C.
Examples.
A. D.
Ahab told he should die at Bamoth-
Gilead. Did he beUeve it ? 897
What does Chseronea speak?
Macedonian or Greek ? 338
Roderick could not poM that river,
But was drowned in Gaudelquiver, 712
Carracalla and Geta were brethren, and
The latter was slain by his own brotner^s
hand, 211
Rule IV. d. Anomalies.
Ch, aWy ow, and y, Ch, commencing a word, represents 7 ; in all other
cases, a, 0. Aw represents 6, the same as au; ot^ the same asot^, 9.
y always represents a 0.
Rule V. e. Expression.
A date or number is sometimes expressed on the first and sometimes
on the last end of a word. In either case but three places of figures are
represented, sometimes but two.
Rule VL f. Cyphers.
A letter of a mnemonic word printed in smadl capitals represents as
many cypliers as it stands for units. It is usually the last letter.
Rule VII. g. Nomenclatures.
Nomenclatures are formed by retaining tlie initial letter or syllable, and
then representing a variety of facts. It is applied to persons, places and
things.
Rule VIII h. Emblems.
Emblems denoting the professional character of the individual are fre-
quently introduced, also denoting objects. The following are the principal
Sovereigns, *
Statesmen, tt^
Philosophers, ?
Poets, !
Painters, II
Divines, t
Military, -»•
Navigators, —
Author " "
Miscellaneous, ;
Unmarried, ^-^^-^
Number of
Children, in
Figures, thus, 11
Imprisoned ))
Fort,#
Rail-road, >
Canal, - •
River,
, -oo Gcor?c Washington, 67. Wria Hue.
Sir Eichard Arkwright, 60. And my.
Richard Henry lee, 62. Lead me.
J. M. Keeker, 73. Nariapuu
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t^Vf^KB Of HKEIIOJIIOS.
Where the person dies a violent death, the emblem is placed at the left s
hand of the name.
BvLB IX. i Peesowal Nomenclatures.
In sovereigns, after the initial, a letter or letters expressing his class ; ,
then the year of his ascension, th^e number of years reigned, and lastly, ;
his age at his death, In distinguished persons, after the initial, the date ^
of birth; then the age, and if another syllable he added, the year of the ■
decease.
EuLE X. j\ Local Nomenclatures.
After the initicd is given the latitude , then the longitude; and in divisions, [
lakes, islands, Sec., the curea; in cities, the last item is the date of /bunding; ;
in cdipea^ the date of discovery; in s^raxu, dumndSf See,, the uidth,
JIkahples. ^
Mas ma toil, Martinique, Lat 16, Ix)ng« 61 W. area, 375 sq. miles.
But ^«(w glue, Bremen (Free City )53, " 9 E. " 67 '* •'
Cry «a; found, Cracow, J^U 60, « 20 " " 491 " *«
Moz bel laid, Cape Mexidocino, 40, . " 126 W. disopvered 1542.
Rule XL k. Degrees and Minutes.
Where it is necessary to express minutes or degrees, it is done by an
additional letter to the syllable, giving it in round mmibers. Thus, tqnep-
]?esjBnf 20 miimtesi th^ 2 only would be given. >
EXAHPLES.
Bod^msing, Boston, Lat 42*» 20' Long. 71 W., settled 1630.
Cobi^er oldly, Connecticut 41 30 " 72 30' sq. m. 4,760.
Bulb XII. /. Miscellaneous.
After the initials otrvvefs, canals, raU-roads, &c. the length is given, and
then some other items are explained by a Reference ; when mountains, Ifc.
Qceur, the height is given in feet
i^XAjfiU'BS.
Soh, o%^ Susquehanna, 454 40,000, M ark B lawn Mount Blanc, 15,669
Joashyon, James, ' 418 9000, «. . „, . ^c ^ x. t *^.
Mode Minho 15? -PioMw w the moniirch of moiintuiis.
T/i/* TS>»or * I^O Thev crowned him long ago ;
Xai^, XlOer, 104 . OnaUimeofiock— inaw^eathofdo^ld• —
2^ U^, TagUS, • ' 55/ •' With * diadem of snow.— J^nm.
Rule <XIIL fTt. "iCppiOAL Associations.
Tins consists in associating with the name of a person the most impor-
tant events, taking each letter in the name as the initial of a topic. The
same method is adopted to remember the divisions of a discourse. {JFoir
example, see page 65.
* The arta drained, in round numbers, 40,000 t^uaie miles.
,7*5. PMlto^Sctayler, ?l. Sk.pa. - Francis Marion. B
Dr. Priestley, 71. Pit jpa. Hannah More, Sept 7. ^^j
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One hundred familiar objecsta, correspcaidiBg to the yetos of a century, are ] [
termed symboljs, and are used to represent numbers. They are used in
classifying facts and in the system or Chronics.
RtrtE XV. 0, Classification.
All classification is based upon analogy or resemblance, contrcLit, ccmti'
guityt or ca'use and effect.
Exile XVI * p, Gen£rai1 Knowledge.
In associating facts we frequently depend xtpon our general knowledge
to enable us to remember whether an event occurred before or since the
Christian era ; in mnemonic wordit one thousand years are frequently un-
derstood, and in some others we frequently remember the centuiy. Thus,
to remember when the first English child was bom in America, as cradle is
a symbol for 87, 1 put the child into it. I depend upon my general knowl-
edge to know that it was 1587. I reason thus : it could not have been
1487, because America was not then discovered ; it could not liave been
1687, because I remember that Philadelphia at that time contained more
than 2000 inhabitants.
Bulb XVIi q. JUqnths.
The months of the year must ail commence' on some one of the seven
days of the week. Let us take the year 1845 as an illustratioti. Let us
look through the Calendar, and take those months that commence on the
different days, and class them by themselves.
June, we find, commences on Sunday, Hiejlrst day; its ind^ is 1
September and December commence on Monday, second, 2
April and July " Tuesday, third, " 3
January and October " Wedtkesday, fourth, 4
May " Thursday, fifth, 6
. August " Friday, sixUh 6
February, March and November begin on Saturday, seventh, ^*
By adding the index, ot number placed against the months to the day ef
the month, and dividing by 7, tlie number of days in a week, the remainder
will give the day of the week for any date in the following years: 1801,
1807, 1812,t 1818, 1829, 1835, 1840.t 1840, 1857, &c. July 4th, 1840.
Against July we find 3. The day of the month 4. The 3 and 4 make 7;
divided by 7 the remainder is 0, against which is Saturday,
EuLB XVIIL r. Vmrs.
The first day of each year likewise commences on one of the seven days
in the week; but as there are so many years, it womd be difiicult to
remember them all ; consequently the index is placed at the end of the
symbol of the year corresponding, by means of letters. Thus, the battle
of Waterloo, June 18, 1815. The year is the fifteenth in the present cen-
tury, so I take the symbol ^6x fifteen. Which is goat. The letter t represents
* Or 7. For an explanation of the reeaon, see Rule Xl^,
t Jamuary and J%6nMiry excepted,
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Dr. John Abntlmot.
Irflmr 8t Clair, 84. GUfeo.
Marshal Villara, 82. Viedtht.
logb WilUBinioii, «4 Wifm.
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is 1 ; day of the month, 18 ; index of the year, 3 ; making together, fi2 ; which,
divided by 7, leaves a remainder of 1. Sunday, The last letter of the
symbol does not always represent the index. Bemember the rule of Diph-
thongs and OomUnnajticms, The 100 symbols correspond to the years df a
i^enttiry.
EuLB XIX s. Centuriss.
Going back to the first centurtf, or the century of the Christiaa era, we
find its index is 2, and that the variation between each successive century
is one, decreasing as we advance. The index for the century of the Chris-
tian era is 2 ; 700 is 2 ; and 1400, 2. The index of 100 is 1 ; 800, I ; and
1500, 1. The index of 200, as a century, is 0; 900, ; and 1600, O. S., 0.
The style was changed in 1582, by calling the next day after October
5th, the l€th; being a variation of 10 days. Ten days are equal to a week
and 3 days ; the index of 1600 as a csentury, 0. S., was 0, or what is equiva*
lent, 7. Deduct the 3 days from 7 and it leaves 4, as the index of 1600,
N. S. The variation, since the change in the style of the centuries, is two,
thus: N. S. 1600 is 4; 1700 is 2 ; and 1800 is 0.
EuLR XX. L Bissextiles,
Every fourth year is termed Bissextile or Leap Year. To aneertain
whether a year is Bissextile or not, divide the year by 4, and if there is no
remainder the year is Leap Year, Exceptions'^ 1700r 1800 and 1900, as
individual years. In calculating a date in Jamuary or February of Leap
Year, deduct t from the date before adding the items together.
Ruts XXI u. Caaomcs.
To calculate the day of the week or pumth. To the day of the month add
-the index of the month, y^ar, and century ; divide by 7, and take the
ranflinder as tlie day of the week.
Bulb XXII. v. Etthonics.
The root or primitive may be considered as a symbol, representing ttoo
places on the beginning of the word. The piefix represents one and the
suffix one, and that in each case is the number first represented. There
are a few exceptions, which Mrill be noticed as they occur.
RtTLE XXIII. uf. Compounds.
Symbols, mnemonic words, and etymonics are frequently joined together in
iBxpiessing numbers, and sometimes oile is used and sometimes another.
Mnemonic wcnrds are pnnted in italic. Symbols, in full fiice ; and ety-
niome, part in itaUe and put in Roman ; thus, tmagery.
Rule XXIV. 4C Association op Facts.
As far as it is possible, connect several facts together. They will be
more distinctly remembered, and it will require less labor to fix them in
tihe mind. Also, seek for the causes and relations of things. Bemember
that you are no wiser for any yoc«* you possess, only as they enable you to
investigate principles, and lead to cc^iect conclusions. , Bemember, the
business of life is to think and act wisely.
,735 Vertot, 80. fWt^. RoliertMorris, 72. M/joe. . *
JobM liim&t dh Jpeal no. Mrs. Felicia Hemans, May 16.
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tfemanda^ De Soto^ the river^ sur-
veyed
From where his rEd^ Bannei^
was flying,
But he in a log^'in its bosom was ^^i,^
Where murmurs the dirge for the
' 'dyingv' .-
. 1* Hex^ando, the county seat of De
Soto County, Mississippi.
2U 1?E Soto, is. the northwestern
county in Mississippi*
3. Mississippi.
^ /. Re4 expresses 7,002, the popula-
tion of De Soto county, according to
the rule to which the letter /refers.
4. Banner is the symbol for OTIC,
and being associated with T)e Soto
county, indicates that it is the fi^,t or
N. W. county in the State.
fl. A* log expresses V54I, the date
of the discovery of the Mississij^.
After discovering the river he contin-
ued ^vest till he reacfhed the Wachdta,
which he descended to the Red river,
and down that again to the Mississippi,
where he died, and was IdM in a hol-
low oak lo^ and committed to the broad
Mississippi.
e. Laid, expresses the date of his
death, 1542.
EXAMPLE n.
^ blm^ was Sir Hovenden Walker'
that night
. Ashe^ with rag* ba^ner^ ascendinof
The Gulf of St, Lawrence — though
sure** he was right '
Lost his banner ^od €an<K ene
its ending.
3. The phrase, so hlue^ expresses
.6,467, theu -jp^yf^ef. pf. merv pa hoard
the fleet. * ' ' . ^
1. Walker commanded the fleet, and
the weather becoming tempestuous, the
English pilots recommended one course
and the ' colonial another. Pursuing
the course the English recommended,
eight of his transports foundered and
a thousand men Were lost*
2. As he^ exjiBesses the date 6f the
month — As standing for August, and
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he expressing 22, the day of l^e ttfonth
— August 22.
c. The word rag expresses the da*c,
i7n.
3. Banner is used to indicate
that Walker county is the first or N.
W. of (Georgia.
a. Sure, gives the pmpulation of
Walker county, Georgia.*
g^ Banner represents the thou-
sand men that he lost, and Cane the
eighX transports.
t EXAMFLE UU
The CABAL Administration of
Gharks IL, 1670.
The word Ca^al is formed of the
initials of the names of the members
of the third administration of Cluirles
IL, and originated from this circum-
stance, whence it signifies ?i junto.
C— Clifford,
A — Arlington,
B — Buckingl^am,
A — Ashley,
L — Lauderdale,
Duriog this ad-
ministration public
crime and unprin-
cipled policy were
at their height, nor
Vihgyor.
was any man's life or honor secure.
ThijB axlministration would form a very
good representation of the king's char-
acter.
Dr. Watts gives the following ex-
ample, which however is mot fiurmed
upon strict Mnemonic principles,
V— Violet, ^
I- — Indigo,
B— Blue,
G — Gre^n,
Y^Yellow,
— Orange,
B— Red. ,
This is an unmeaning word, and con-
sequently such 88 we do not recom-
mends yet dwre is no do«bt b\U a pet-
son would be ^ssistod ia remeinberik%
the Order of ths primary colors by it«'
EXAMPLE IV.
William, the Conqueror, divided
among his chief men^ (629 in number,
called the Battle Roll,) the poissessiqi^
and distinctions! of the foUoweis .^
Harold
♦ When the date of the census is nbrg^m,
1840isMitended.' ' *
1736.
Prince Eugene, 73. End pea. Patrick Henry,
Daniel MorgaH, * James Cliiiton,
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RULE XXV. — ^BXABIFLES.
• The first stone church in England,
was built by meuy in 629.
Upon the breaking out of King
Philip's war upon the soil (1675) of
New England, the Indians were repre-
sented by a ja|^9 and the Colonists
by a loa£ Bearing in mind the
fondness of the Indians for rum^ we
might readily associate them with the
jog'^ the symbol for 30, which repre-
sents the number of thousands then
embraced within the limits of New
England. In the same manner, taking
into consideration the privations and
«ufierings of the Colonists for want of
Irread, and other conveniences, it would
not be difficult to connect them in the
mind with the l#al^ the symbol for
55j and thus remember that the num-
ber of Whites in New England was
estimated at 65 thousand, at that time.
John Washington, the great grand-
father of George Washington, stains
the »rii (1675) of Virginia, by the
mardef of six Indian chiefs, which
led to an Indian war.
Three regicides land upon the soil
(1675) of New England.
Marquette dies on the soU (1675)
of Michigan.
Rule 25. — y. — The Association op
Ideas.
In learning Scripture, and other
lessorts, remembering the outlines of
discourses, &c., it is necessary to as-
sociate ideasy rather than words. The
following exampler will illustratd thfe
principle.
I was one time listening to a tem-
perance « address^ and the lecturer laid
down as- his third proposition, that
** man is composed of a threefold na-
ture— *an inteUectualj a moral, and a
physical <f^e,'* This I wished to re-
tnenrber as the third proposition. My
third symbol is Table, and I h^d
Thomas Jefierson seated at it, to re-
member that he was the third Presi-
dent of the United States. I imme-
dioex../, at his right hand, placed a
pile of sciewtific and literary wprks,
suck as would gratify his intellect;
before him I laid the Bible to feast his
moral nature; and at his left hand I
imagined a basket of fruit to repre-
sent his physical nature. After hav-
ing brought to view this imaginary
picture, was there any danger that I
should ever forget the third proposition
of the lecturer; that man possessed
a threefold nature; or that Thomas
Jeierson was the third President of
the United States. The reason why
I have here introduced the name of
Jefierson, is to illustrate how we make
use of the knowledge wc have previ-
ously acquired, to assist us in the re-
membrance of other facts.
I might have taken, with equal pro-
priety, Ethelbald, the third sovereign
of England, who married Judith his
step-mother. I had, to remember these
several facts, represented to myself a
bald man sitting at a table, with his
step-mother, holding a eup in his hand.
The idea of a bald man would suggest
Ethelbald; the Table reminded jfne that
he was the third sovereign and the cup
expresses 857, the year he ascended
the throne.
The method of remembering dis-
courses is, to associate the several
topics or propositions presented, with
the several symbols in the order pre-
sented ; or to associate them with other
facts, that are equally familiar with the
symbols.
To commit a chapter in the Bible, or
any similar exercise, read over care-
-fblly the first verse or paragraph, and
thus obtain a clear view of the idea
contained in it; then associate this
idea with the symbol for oTie, and hay-
ing done so proceed to the next, which
you will associate in the same manner,
until you have a distinct knowledge of
all the ideas presented in the exercise
you wish to commit, so that you can
readily mention the topic of each verse
Of paragraph. After having done this,
it will require but little labor to learn
the phras^logy in which the idea is
oKpres^fed. In most cases the distinct
remembrance of the idea is all we
wi«h. Lamentations, the third chapter,
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£ir John Soanej Jan. 20.
Bev. T. W. Horsfleld, Aug. 20
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with, as it contains just as many verses
as there are books in the Bible.
Verse 43. " Thou hast covered with
.anger and persecuted us: thou hast
slain, thou hast not pitied." The idea
presented in this verse, would easily
associate with Queen Elizabeth, the
fortyrthird sovereign of England, as
she, was of an arbitrary disposition ;
and it is true of her, that she "had
slain and had not pitied," at least her
cousin Mary Stuart. After having
learned that she was the forty'third
sovereign of England, we might use
l^ier as a symbol for forty-three. The
principle is, to connect those things
you wish to remember, with those
things that are familiar, and thus
deepen the impression of the one
while you remember the other. Thus,
if 1 desired to remember John the
Evangelist, as the forty-third book in
the Bible, I might imagine that had
he lived in the time of Elizabeth, her
disposition might have led her to have
immersed him in a cauldron of boiling
oil,
KoxE 26. z. — Association of Names.
The reason why it is difficult to re-
member names is the absence of any
obvious principle of association. It is
known by every one that we frequently
remember a person's name more readily
by knowing his occupation. The rea-
son of this is, we recollect some per-
sons of the same occupation, bearing
the same or a similar name. The as-
sociation in the mind in this case is
involuntary. Where we can make use
of this principle, it is advisable to adopt
this method. I once desired to remem-
ber that the name of a person I met
was Whitney. He was engaged in
peddling tin ware. Recollecting that
Wliitney was the inventor of the cot-
ton ^nn, I thought if I should fill one
of his articles of ware with cotton, I
should remember that his name was
Whitney, because the cotton would re-
mind me of that name. I had occasion
to call upon him, and he told me his
residence wa» No. 4, Milk street, Low-
ell. To recollect the No., I took one
of the symbols for four, Ibx^ and
put it in the tin vessel I had filled
with cotton, and thought that would
make the fbx a warm nest. Then
to remember the street, I thought I
would feed the fox on mUk. This
illustration may excite a 97ieer in tho^e
who are too tvise to learn. It is nev-
ertheless philosopkical. Should any
one object as to the time it would oc-
cupy to form such associations, let
them recollect that the mind acts in-
stantaneously as it has been accus-
tomed. The objection of the time and
trovMe of forming associations is all a
bugbear.
In most cases there is a very obvious
association that we may form that will
be perfectly efficient for the purpose of
remembering names* If you are in-
troduced to a person of the name of
Smith, immediately inquire in what
respect he resembles any of your ac-
quaintance of that name ; and if you
do not find any, (which would be very
singular,) associate him with Capt.
i John Smith. If all other methods
I fail, take the letter commencing his
I name, 5, for instance, and associate him
with the symbol for 19, AnaCOnda^
as his riame commences with the nine-
teenth letter in the alphabet. In re-
membering names that occur in Histo-
ry* you can frequently remember one
by connecting it with the other by
some fanciful association. To remem-
ber that Marat was assassinated by
Charlotte Corday, you might associate
the idea of killing a rat with a card.
Connect also as many circumstances
together as present themselves, so thai
in case one point of resemblaQce^ nojt
sufficient to remind you of the cir-
cumstance, the others may. Thc»^ in
endeavoring to ^x both of the names
mentioned in the mind, you might no^
tice that the last syllable in the nwne
of Mara? expresses the month and day
when he died ; r being taken to repre-
sent the seventh month, «^, the thfitteif^
day, or July 13.
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Boerhaave, 70. JSatr^joy. Benjamin West,
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EXAMPLES IN CLASSIFICATION.
Class incATioN is admitted to be a
principle of the utmost importance.
It consists in collecting together those
things which agree in some impor-
tant particular. One species of clas-
sification relates to numbers. In clas*
sifying objects of this description, we
associate them with other objects
which are termed symbols, represent-
ing numbers. These symbols are
familiar objects, for the most part,
and are always used to represent the
same number. Thus I take fable
as a symbol for three. If I wish to
remember Thomas Jefierson, as the
^Azffl^'president of the United States, I
connect him with the table because
there is a more obvious association
between a man and a table than be-
tween man and three. In this case I
may imagine him seated iat the fable
writing the *• Declaration of Inde-
pendence," as he was its author. It
is easier for me to connect him with
this object than it would be possible
for me to do with a number.
Baltimore,
Thomas Jefferson,
Ethelbald,
Henrt Vane,
Example.
third city in the U. S. in population.
" President of the United States.
" Sovereign of England.
" Governor of Massachusetts.
I associate the idea that the fable I use as my symbol for three is placed
in Baltimore, and Thomas Jefferson is seated at it writing, aad that he
is very much annoyed by a bald man (Ethelbald) in conversation with a
Vane one. " Let him laugh who wins," but remember ridicule is not ar-
gument, and that a great many have ridiculed what they could not com
prehend. If by adopting such a principle a child would treasure up thou-
sands of facts which otherwise he would never learn, who shall say it is
not philosophical ?
Suppose again, I take eliair as a symbol for seven, and having placed it
in Brooklyn, the seventh city in point of population in the United States, I
seat in it the following persons :
Edward the Elder, ¥^ seventh sovereign of England.
Andrew Jackson, p " president of the United States.
One of the Judobs, JflK " book in the Bible.
Julius Rockwell, m. c. ^ipT from the 7th Cong. Dist. Mass.
Who will say it is not eatier la connect these several persons with the
object^ chair, than with the number? No one, I presume. Again, as a
symbol for eight we take cane . This, it may be, we purchase at Albany,
N. Y., because we are tired} "
Albany, N. Y.,
Martin Van Bttren,
Methuselah,
John Q. Adams,
Massachusetts,
Athelstan,
Jefhtqah,
Edjiund Andros,
eighth city in order of |>opulation, U. S.
" president of the United States.
" from Adam ih lineal descent.
M. C. ftom the 8th Cong. Dist. Massachusetts.
eighth State in population U. S.
" king of England.
" of the judges of Israel.
" governor of N. Y. and Mass. -
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1700 Dr.Edmimd HMBymI9.Sas my Dr. R. Bentley, 77. Bmkrae.
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Martin Van Buren resided at Albany, where he purchased a cane^ (not
Methuselah's,) which he might give to J. Q. Adaras, as being the oldest
member of Congress, who is identified with the history of Massachusetts,
the 8th State. Athelstan enacted, that whoever of his subjects should make
three sea- voyages for the prosecution of commerce, should be entitled to the
rank of a thane or gentleman. {Gentlemen ! I these days carry cail€8.]
Perhaps Jephthah might have had a ^ane when his daughter met him. Sir
Edmund Andros ought to have been caned » The foregoing examples
are sufficient to illustrate the principle.
Another method of classification may be termed Topical AssociatioD
Right.
R-ight. An agreement of moral principles — Righteousness.
I-mmutable. These principles are unchanging.
G-od-given. A right cannot be conferred by man.
H-uman authority based upon right, or void.
T-he rule of action, " Do right, come what may."
This, by some, is termed methodizing.. By adopting this principle of
methodizing, we can associate whatever we wish with a topic, without
danger of becoming confused. This may, perhaps, be more distinctly seen,
if we take an individual and associate the most important events of his
life with his name, in the following manner.
EDWARD EVERETT.
E-DWARD Everjett, fl schoho' and statesman,
D-orchester, born at, 1794
W-as graduated at Harvard "University, 1811
A-minister two years in Boston, 1813
R-esigned his ministerial charge for a professorship, 1815
D-eparture on the tour of Europe four and a half years, 1815
E-ditor of the North American Review; 1620
V-entured as a candidate, and elected to Congress, 1824
E-lected governor of Massachusetts, 1835
R-ewarded with a mission to the Court of St. James, 1841
SIR THOMAS MORK
T-HOMAS More, bom 1480, died 1535, aged 66,
H-e was elected to Parliament at the age o£ twent^'One, 15m
0-pposed a subsidy demanded by Henry and defeated it
M-ade Judge of the Sheriff's Court, 1508
A-ppointed privy counsellor.
S-peaker of the House of Commons, 1523
M-ade an ambassador, 1527
0-pposed Henry's divorce from Catharine, 1532
R-esigned the Great Seal, 1533
E-xecuted for denying the king's supremacy^ . 1535
1740.
StiOt^ ClintoH, 72. Oof/pa.
Arthir Lee, 50. Lot/fy.
Benedict Arnoid, 74. Aroyro.
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m S T OWCAL BTgW T S A SSOCIATBP;
1701. pttTkfibWtd? t ca^y i ItalllikcM* inscfibed, PMlttia n kiO^dom 4nd
tiB CoHcge fmitided. ' ' ' ' ^ ' " ' ' '
J702. The Grand Alliwcc of *e hyieiia P. E. G-. S. tr. P.* their F/oeS,
aind caused the celelnrateH battles of B. R. O. M.* ,
1703. Tkt Frehch and Itidfeihs,' after dcmstatffrg th^ conntrf from Cdsco to
Wells, hid the bill^ of their, exploits,, upon t;he |aMe beside th6 MgrO tariff
bill of Massachusetts.^ . .
1704. Just before he dieis, M fiftplifit White, the first white man bom in
New Etigflan<f, hear r^d from thie' first Newispaper in America,* the Boston
New9 Letter^ an accpunt of the old^.l^ad flKC and hi^.^jCn" in DeerfieW,'and re-'
speetfng the baWc of Blenheim^^ • » 1 ". .
Here.MegrlborouFh the English le(J»
Antd put tiie ftench to rout,
Bat \rhat they kiOed each other Hjtf
I never could makQ oat.
,4^nother.plum^ for Eiiglish c,«p*,'
Iv^here Preilchmen lost their Jugg J ••
()h, trhat 4 rtac) fAiy *t is,
Stale doctor^ ik& io drngs^
1705. Freight the Tessel whh the yttiim just invented, and give the com-
mand of it to Joseph I. of Germany. *
1709. Yott intiy MW off thsa heads of those Spaniardij'\«JIo 'fnVkd^ Catplma
— if you can ; those killed at thd hMe of RamlHics Z,i^" bss; ^6y do not nfeed it.
• if 07*. You were unsnccessftll fifi attempting: to efetabKsh tA,kt^ Englfeh.
chair at Port Royal.
iTOSf. Go tip on the hill {Mavdrhlll) where the'cirtie ^,iw^i,** and you may
find art Oi^* slaughtered by the Indians. The baitte of Ou^narde was not fought
wk^ijaiie^.
'*Th^ come, they come — he h^eds Ho cry,
Save the soft, child-like wail j
f0^ftlth^,'Mv«P 'My Children, fly !^
Were mingled on the gale."
« AnA inner, stiHi he drew his breath,
And sterner flashed los^^e,
^^rasttekafl^-iheieadiandeatli, <
Still shouting, ' Children, fly ! » " ♦
.iffl^; -Cfould Thomas Short, if b^ilwA beeh ae- sto^t'ts, he waW $hort, with a
printing-press, tied up in a Iiet4 wade the Connecticut ? ** . liet th^ fijfst thing
that he prints be an account of the baltlep of Pultowa and Malplaquet.
1710. Let AXO be employed 'in .the 'first fost-OIfice to hunt a letter 'for the
new governor^ Robprt Hunter,, or for sorrte one due^^ th« Palatines.
1711. An unsuccessful expedition against Canada resulted in a shipwreck,
ani tti^ drownivig' of those who had no 'liarrel clr'olhet thing to cling to.
Give Ohar^es VI. of Germany, a IMrrdt for a throne.
' 1712. The Indiansr madsacr ed a white heaf^ in Cardlina.**
. ' 'I M" ! ' ^'1' i ( )/ Mj ijii M i| .i I If
rxnasscred— flo// U2 prLsonem. . Tpe f#x per-
sonifies the cunniti* of the Indians, ana it
used as |he symboi for 4, to associate the
eve nt with 1704.
^U^m fepresentt tlie 2d month, (Febraa-
ry,) 29th day, when the massacre occurred.
, ■^•O^apa Mprasents tighth mtntk, (Angast,)
13ih day, when the battle was fought.
>o The killed of the French was 30,000.
H L^tiopmsBtt fifth vkw^ (May,) 23d.
»2TM«Mayl3A. "August 29th.
' " Represents 40, the personi killed in the
atlae^Mipon HaverhiU. '
^ First printing-press set up in Coim«cticut.
. w iB^e^roprelsentS 2700, *be number of Pal«
atines who came over With Robert Hunter.
^ffEhebeOr is uSed for the symbol of 12, and
lilprvise to cepresent 137, the white persibni
massacred by the Indians.
.iP-r\issiai
, E-ngland,
■ UnritedPaimaces,:} . j §-pain., ,
1' .'oeHottuidy I
P-ortugal, 1
»«ilfeahdm, fon^Aay. 13, 1W4,
R-amiUi«s^ '< 2fay28, 190^,
V Okukin^Bde, " July 11, 11»8,
M-alplaquet, « Sept. 11, 1709.
''»^«iTt|pR;ieilt8 500,tWnambcr. .
':KSa«^eMpiresaisl30,^ripem»skiiledr ^
*In 170o, a duty of £4 was laid< upah tka
InborlBlkm of auf'tiegroi . > -
AAi.^nniBxk^iemvma establisibed iu fiooth
America in 1604, one hundred years pre-
ri/M, • . : *
)^hB mfA «2<d, cxprassea If7,. the-peraons
^* Mr. Dunsutn^ aa describe^ b^ Mrs. Si^uraey, at the maaaacre of Haverhill.
vjA-i Montfaut on, 86. J/m/" shoe.
* *** Charles Rollin, 80. Raub cy.
josrpli Wnrren* 34, War fa to.
Sir Francis Ohantrey, Nov. 25.
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17ia Did the Con^missioners go io die Treaty of Ftmht in a
1714. The first schooner was built at Cape Ann, (not without the
and would undpubtedly haye held the first ueoirge*^
1716. If you attempt to catch the goat with salt, it will remind you of the
battle of the Salt^ateheriy and if he should turn and fight, it would remind you
of the Eebdllon In Scotland*
1716. Was the chair of the British Parliament placed upon a wlieel t^
or did the. first jsettler in Mississippi lose a wkcel in the river ?
1717. Was it foolish in the first settlers ol New Orleans to attempt to raise
apples there? *
1718. The ftuaniple Allianee of G. H. E. F.' tried to deprive Spain of her
Italian gpKiitar*
1719. Did the South Carolina anacon^ break loose from the Proprie-
tors,^ and escape into the first Presbyterian Churell in the United States?'
1720. Put a little tea in the basket for the old kdies of New England.*
Fahrenheit's Thennometer by the side of it ; and the S<mth Sea Babble like-
wise, and let Robert Walpole, the British minister carry it.^ •
1721. Use Mary Wortley Montafifue's handlfiW^iitf when you wipe
the blood that fiowis after the first InoenlatiOB for the Small Pox biAmerica.'
1722. Let Peter Schuyler's camel assist in the erection of the first tradtflg
house at Oswego.
1723. Around the diadem in South Carolina, let the Whites march with
a bottle^ afi the Blaeks play upon the guitar^" and the Pirates die in £. I."
1724. The Pragmatic Sanction was acceded to by most of the Stated of Btt*
rope, in the same year, that Jesuit dog^ Father Balle was killed at the destntp*
tion of Norridgwock.
1725. Load the elej^ant with the first steridotjrpe plates cast by WilBani
Ged.
1726. Did William Parks crush the emmet in setting up the flnt^it-
iJB^pr^Si* i« Vir^nia.**
1727. From Delaware to Kennebeck,
Each bee was shaken well ;
St., Peter's diurch in Martinique,
A mass of rains fell I
0; to hon many a thoughdess one,
Was half past ten, almell.u
1728. An extreme dTonth in South Carolina was followed by a dreadful hll*
ricane that swept as with the broom of destruction, causing a terrible lAlllda*
tion, and this was su^cceeded b]^ that awful scQurge^ the yelloW foTfTi which
swept off multitudes of the inhabitants.
1720. The Natchez Indians massacre all the French tllf kies^* that came
in their way, the same year thatMcthodi&Dl took its rise and Baltimore was founded.
r
1 George L ascended tbe throne of England
in 1714.
s In 1716 SepUmidl Farlkmunts were intro-
duced.
« G-ermany, ^
H-dlland, I Qoadraple Alfianee against
£-ngland, | Spain.
F-iance. j
< The Propnetary government of Sooth
Carolina abolished.
» The first PresbyteHaa Chureh was ereet-
ed in the city of New York.
8 Tea began to be used in New England.
.7 Robert 'Walpole became prime ministei^
ofEnghmdinl720.
'Mary Wortley Montagne infvoduotd it
into England. Dr. Bqylston ma the' first
who tried it in Boston.
The number df white pjersons was 14,000.
10 The namber of neghMss, 18,000.
>^ Twenty4iretitei8 ezecutedi eacf s es sc d bj
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^ Virginia Was the first iettled oolonyi and
yet MaBsacbnietls had a pxuiti&g-piM 87
years before VIrgima!
K Great earthquake i&\New Enriaad. ft
occorred October 21^, (O, hm) at lile^deek.
P.M.
M Nearly 200 of the Frenoh were kiMy
and move than llii^ number Uikek jnBouta*
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1842.
Sir Charles Bell, April 28.
Rev. T. D. Fosbroke, Jan. 1.
Robert Mudie, April 29.
Sir Robert Ker Porter, May 4.
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HISTOBIOJlL }IVERT8 ASflOCIATfiD.
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1730.
30. Saliwa, N. Y.^
Achmet III. who had sheltered Charles XII. after his
defeat at Pultowa, was dethroned and eonfined in a
Jn^, alias a prison.
Ehode Island's populatioa, tra^'Steai, (17,935,) vrith a
jug*
The Natchez Indians destroyed like a worthl€;9SJ|ilir«
1731.
JBagle
Symbol
for
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Jethro.
31. ' S^RiNGi^iELD, Mass.
Let the eagle perch upon the fort at
Crown Point, which tlfe French have JHSt
erected.
Fifteen hundred Negroes imported into South
Carolina ; so we niay say the eagle carried
off a black goat*^
32. Norfolk, Va.
Let Jethro Wash Lee's Neck While.
1732 i '^^ '-'f'^f /^iSM/^^
. 1. ^;-.i.» f^^r/^-^ Wash—George Washington, bom Feb. 22d.
Lee's^Rickard Henry Lee, " Jan. 20th.
Neck — James Necker " at Geneva.
White — Hugh White, first settler in Western
NY.
William Wanton, the 14th Governor of R. L
appointed.
William Crosby, the 26th Governor of N. Y. appointed.
In Maryland, tobacco made a legal tender at Id. per pound, and com at
20d, per bushel.
The yellow fever rages in South Carolina.
To associate the above facts, let Jethro Wash Le$*s Neck White, and
send a specimen of Maryland's currency to William Wanton, William
Crosby, and to South Carolina, where his messenger took the yellow fever.
33. FiSHKiLL, N. Y.
Many a pail of blood was shed in the war
of the Polish anf^cossion.
James Oglelhorpc, with his slack company
(116) carried the first settler's imil into Georgia.
. The first lodge of Free jiasons held» not in a
patt hut iu Boston.
Lord Btdtimorc, the 17th Gove ni or of Mary«
land.
Two worthy men as ever battles won,
Were Phillip Schuyler, Francis Marion.*
iThe cities of the United States, in the or-
der of their population, are associated with
eilch symboL
>Goat, the symbol for 15, is used to repre-
sent the 1500 Negroes imported.
* Where names of men are thus introduced,
the year of their birth is to be understood;
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Bishop Gibson, 79. GcMfnyi^.
Snoith Thompson, 76. Dec 18.
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84.:' ALLSOHUfT, Pa.
In Boston threie markets formed, not to sell tongs $
To Edinburgh Arthur St. Clair first belongs.
Under Wolfe, a lieutenant, when Quebec was won.
He died poor, though bright the career that he run.
35. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. "JT. >
1735, An epidemic sore throat throughout New EnglsunL
They undoubtedly \|sed the tumbler for medicine.
John Adams bom at Braintree, Mass. October 19th.
36. Skithfislp, R. I
The Chickasaws would not bow down to the
imdg^e which the French desired to set up,
fc--^ and so t^ French undertook to compel them,
~ but were themselves compelled to surrender to
P the Chickasaws^ who tied the French up as
% images und roasted them.
This year, in old Virginia, was Patrick Henrjr bom,
-^ And in New York, James Clinton, too, on tkuieenth August
i^ mom,
^^ And Bdniel Morgan too, this year, a noted Jene^ Blue^
'^ George Clarke, K^w York's 1>ee Governor appointed it if
true.
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duke.
37. Hartford, Ct.*
Oiv^ lYaHcis, of Lorrttve, the Tuscan triimpet of the Grand-
38. Lynn, Mass.
The factions of the Hats and CeqfM
In S wedeo ru le the 4ay ;
ki I^assau Halls a hafpt perhaps.
The students sometimes play.
Ppohi Carolina Negroes ^
An insurreetion came —
Had all the forty thousand rosa
WI)io would have been to blame 1
John Hancock and Benjamin West bom.
1 Hartfoid shoald be daseed as the 25th, if | » Nassau Hall College, at Prineetoa, N: J^
the town be included. jfounded. '
-ijMji Alexander Pojie.
^ Daleb Slrong, 75. .&/otA
OiiT^r EDiWorth, $3. J^fo mi.
Elbridge Cerif, 70. Gofry.
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39. LocKPORT, N. Y.
1739. Admiral . Vernon takes Porto Bello spry asT a
squirrel.
1839. Opium war between Great Britain and China.
1639. The first printing press in North America was
set up at Cambridge by Stephen Day.
1639. De Soto sailed from Cuba for Plorida with 9
vessels and 900 men, a hat (213) of horses, and a herd of
swine. He never lived . to return.
.111^ n .; f wi 40, DtTHoiT, Mich. .
1740. T^o teach a ^kve Xo write one word, as **ciinBter/^ or el line,
Jn Carolina is a crime, one hundred poundit ttie fine !
George Clinton tind Nathftnlel Greene, Hugh Mercer too, the Scot^
With Arthur Lee, thia year were born, and Arnotdj was he not?
; , 41. EoxBURY, Mass.
1741. The Morivian ^Carffirst exhibited at Bethlehem, Fa.
In the »earr tie up the numbers of Franklin's *' General Magazine and
Historical Chronicle/' tlie first literary jouin a! pnblishtd in the United States.
NA.NTTJCXET, Mass,
1742.
Symbol
Fence.
The Spaniards in-
vaded Georgia, and
Oglethorpe jence
A^^as a defence which
consisted of a suc-
cess fill stratagem.
There was one
renve built for lib-
erty when Famie:^
Hall was erected.
The Governor of South Carolina, James Glen,
And the nineteenth of Maryland, Thomas Bladen.
43. Newburo, N. Y.
1743. The victory of Dettinffen ''
And the culture of Indigo.
The fii-st perforirted by fing!idh«ie«>,
In Gepftiany, as you know.
In Sdith Carolina, the last,
Miss Lucas, the Indigo Queen,
Did 8h«-inyf iplyithe'^setissors mote &st,
Her own nlknble fingers between.
44. Niew BjttTNSwic]^, N. J.
1744, War between (the quails of) England and
France.
1844. Texas Annexation fever — Native American
mobs in Philadelphia — a great flood on the western
rivers, parlicuJarly the Mississippi.
'' 1644, A ^-reat massacre in Virginia by the Indians.
Tlie Massaduisetts' law against Anabaptists.
1-544. Orcllana explored some of the branches of
the Amazon, and lost a^eTW^ with his own life.
^(rtm expresses the number of men lost in the expedition —.126.
1 7AR ^^ Robert Walpole,7L J^o^p^^m. Jonathan Bwiftf 78. Sour poo.
Beqamifl Bash, 68. Mail moo. Hannah More, 88. JUM «h>. -
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4^^. Bangor, Me.
1745. How many skuUs were lost in the reduction of Louisburg, the
plan of which " was drawn up by a lawyer,^ to be executed by a merchant,^
at the head of a body of husbandmen and mechanics ? "
A Canadian Jesuit found ginseng, they say,
The year that were bom *' mad " Anthony Wayne and John Jay.
46. Alexandria^ D. G.
The French fleet left France with the
strength and beauty of an ostrich to
recover Louisburg, but it returned with-
out accomplishing its object, having
buried many a poor dog; (2400 men)
on the shores of Canada.
Lima was overthrown by an earth-
quake, and its port Callao, entirely de-
stroyed, one person alone escaping.
1746.
Symbol
for
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Ostrich.
He stood alone, nor friends nor foejl
Survived thaffatal day ;
One wail upon the waters rose,
And all had passed away.
That morn three thousand hosoms beat
With hope and rapture high, —
That eve, the wave their winding-sheet,
Their pall, the darkened sky.
47. Lancaster, Pa.
1747. The French and Indians massacre each (30) family in Saratoga
as freely a3 they would have killed a firog^.
In South CaroHna a frost hard enough to freeze a ttog if he had been
as tender as orange trees.
A frog could scarcely chew the forty thousand hogsheads of tobacco,
each containing half a ton, exported from America, without becoming as
large as an ox »
48« Keating, Pa.
t
1748. In a boot put the treaty of Aix La Qhapelle,
Restored vftre the con(|[uests all parties baid made,
Thrown away were the lives of the thousands who fell ;
No matter i^ the powers that be, mtM< ke obeytd^'^
A sixpenny bounty on hidigo paid.
49. Cambridge, Ma^s.
1749. The Ohio Company was not formed to raise cofife^^ but to pro*
mote western settlement
Bemiing Wentworth, Governor of New Hampshire, granted a company
of settlers a township of land six miles square. It was called Bennington,
and supposed to be in New Hampshire.
1 Governor Shirley.
* Pepperell.
^ Ox stands for 40, and so may remind us of
the 40,000 hogsheads of tobacco.
,-.fi Joiia.DiokUuion,60. Doommj^.
^^^^ DavidBraiiierdjSO.AMwy.
Colin MacUuriiiy 48» Moon orK
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50. Wilmington, Del.
1750. The British Parliament passed an act with a penalty
of £200 for manufacturing wrought iron or steel in -the American
colonies. They wished to make the colonies dependent upon
themselves for awlfi and cutlery.
The Masaaehusetts* law against theatricals.
51. Newport, R. L
1751. Did the Commissioners carry laiiteros to make a treaty with
the Catabaws and Six Nations ?
52. PoRTSlMOVTH, N. IL
jk Franklin needed an iilllbrella when he
^'7^^' j^/^^^ went out with liis son into the field to try his
£^/ f^Hk experiment with his kite. That was a new style
Symbol ^"^np^^^of obtaining electricity, and so -^e can remem
for n -- ■ ■ ---_--
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Untbrella* |^ Robert Dinwiddie, Governor of Virginia.
Gouveneur Morris born, January 31, N. Y,
93, Wheeling, Va.
1753. George Washington went
on a mission to the French Com-
mandant to secure the interest of
the British lion.
Alexander Hamilton bom in the
g . i ^^ l»\^™^ WJA. island of Nevis.
J s '- £ioii« ^SjIH^BSBSSHIb^^^ ^^^^' ^^^^ recoirded fire in Bos-
^ < ;! V^^^^B^ShI^^^ ^^^ Trouble with .the Dutch and
^^a^mmt^^mii^m^a^^^J^ Indians.
1553. The first of the five great
■i innndaiions of the city of Mexico. Mary, the Bigot — Rpxalaaa murdered
her step-son, Mustapha.
54. Taunton, Mass.
17^. " A Plan for the Unioaof the Colonies " proposed in a convention
at Albany might be considered a plan for uniting the colonial lamps.
65. Paterson, N. J. ^
1755. General Braddock ate of his last loaf before his defeat; as did
many of the inhabitants of Lisbon before the great earthquake.
56. Worcester, Mass.
1756. Of all whom (146} Sumjah Dowlah, confined in the Black Hole
at Calcutta, but twenty-three were alive next morning. They died for want
of air and ahttr II of fresh water. That was worse than the declamtion
of war between Great Britain and France.
,7.7 WlIHam White, 89. TTaiVoow. ^ Lord President Forbev, 62
'' B. S. Uvinglton, 66. XofViatr. IFaolme.
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1767. The battle of Plassey, in India, the same year that Benjamin
Franklin was sent to England as Pennsylvania's oar^ or agent.
58. Geo9>getown, D, C.
1758. Put a cloak upon each of the commanders of the three expedi-
tions in the American Colonies ; one upon each of the three governors
appointed ; and one upon each of the three most distinguished men bom in
this y^ar.
'59. Mr. ' Pleasant, N. Y.
1759. Let a crow, with the news of the surrender of Quebec, alight
on the Eddystone light-hWuse, which has just been erected.
60. MiDDLETOWN, Ct.
1760, The war with the Chemkees was not about tobacCO* ^
61. FllEDERICTOWtf, Md.
1761; Did Major' Grdnt, grant; a moth to the: Cheroltees X^ moke
peace? ' ..-,.,
62. Newburyport, Mass.
I7te. IHd John Bull (Great Britain)
I«Rt on his spectacles And declare war
agaifist Spain, capture the island of
Martinique, and take the Havanna ?
'<■'■■'■ 63. Seneca, N. Y.
1763. Did John Wilkes, in the " North Briton," Jxold up the |l||rr)Or
of libearty ? The niiriror of peace broken by an Indian war.
,64. Lexington, Ky.
1764.' Put the Pariiament ^ Sugar Act in a gloVC, with the Edict.for
the suppression of the Jesuits in France. ..
65. Nashville, Tenn.
1765. ^ The passage of the Stamp
Act led to an appeal to the itilisket*
Pittsbijrg, in Pennsylvania, laid out
\^Ith a khu^ket in one hand.
6Q. SCHEI^EOTAJJY, N4.y. , -
1766. The British Parliaijient put on the mask and repeal the Stamp
Act. William Pitkin, the j^fteenth govern6r of Connecticut.
67.' Fall River, Mass! / ^
' 1767. With the thread of the gpool tie up the glussfppidjfters\ colors,
paper ^ and tea upon which the ParUs^npient hay^ \^(\ a 3^ty. ; ,,
1748. ^* I*^aa Waiitts, Wmpopo. James Thompson, 40. TryarlK
vyvyv«<wvW<
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HISTOKICAL EVENTS ASSOCIATED.
6a Warwick, R. L
1768. Agreement among merchants not to import goods while the
lHo#r-like acts of Great Britain continued.
69. Portsmouth, Va.
1769. You may place the sofh in Dartmouth College, which was this
year foonded, and, in irndginiatiQii, seat upon it the dozen most distinguish-
I ed, who were bom in this year.
70. Dover, N. tt
1770. Build the pyramid where the Boston massacre occurred, and
put the first lightning-rod upon it
Francis Hutchinson, the tioent^secondgoyemoi of Massachusetts.
71. Plattsburo, N. Y.
William Tryon, governor of North Carolina,
after defeating the Regulators, became the tkit'
ty-sixtk governor of New York, and so was the
last one that maintained the iluag^C of royal-
ty in that State.
There were seven New England Indian
* churches, and so upon the chair of each let
a parrot perch.
The population of Massachusetts, 292,000,
may be represented by an old ewe, upon the
head of whom seat the parrat* In the same manner the inhabitants of
New York were Bawds, 168,000.
72. Augusta, Ga.
1772. With the pencil write " Schooner Gasi)ee burnt; the P. A. R-
titioners of Poland were Prussia, Austria, and Russia."
Associated — Write, let the August P. A, R. titioners Gasp.
73L Ltncbbusg, Va.
1773. Instea4 of peaohes^ the tea-chests toss, (342) into the harbor. They
I/ynched ike Tea.
William Henry Harrison and John Randolph bom.
74. Gloucester, Mass.
1774. Let the members of the first Continental Congress ride upon the
JfWEkJ that was enmloyed^n removing Logan's murdered family.
Lamps were for the first time lighted in 3ie streets of Boston.
The port of Boston closed, so the people were compelled to transport,
n^erchandise by land from other ports, so they might need the pony«
Dr. Franklin dismissed from the office of Postmaster General in North
America because <^his attachment to liberty.
General Gage, the last diadeiu governor of Massachusetts.
17 . 9 k Haw, March 23. haiah Thomas, 82. Train she.
* MrldBamiay, 66. jBdiiifaicr. . lirabean, 42. Jl/otVui^d:
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The puma let loofte At Lex-
ington, where he destroyed eight
Americans.
In M,ai/ Allen and Arnold take
Ticonderoga.
At Bunker's hill the Americans
lost their furs (453) which ^yt7«
j (1052) the British, who were two
-^^^-i^ -:^?^^-^'^^^ £-ir^' to their one.
General Washington appointed Commander-in-chief.
Unsuccessful attempt upon Quebec, where Montgomery was killed.
76. Cleveland* 0«
1776. The Declaration of American Independ-
ence, or the kittens declared themselves independent
of the old C|lt.
The old cat escapes from Boston, defeats her
kittens on Long Island, and takes possession of New
York.
She was repulsed at Sullivan's Island, in North
Carolina, and at Trenton. Captain Hale was execut-
ed as a spy.
77. Dayton, O.
1777. In the desk put the Articles of Confederation
with those for the surrender of Burgoyne, who
yields up the (5752) men under his command to
Gates.
Also put a little Clay (Henry) with a
of bibles, (20,000) into it, to remember
that Henry Clay was bom, and Congress authorized the importa-
tion of 20,000 bibles, this year.
78. Nashua,. N.H.
1778. Let the lark carry the French Treaty, and the liews of the mas-
sacre at Wyoming, Pa.
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79. Columbus, O.
1779.
They did not use the horn at the capture of ;:.
^— v--^ xi Stoney Point, as the fortress was taken with ttfi-
loaded muskets ; where they obtained a lot (543)
of prisoners.
Col White, with five others, captured one hun-
dred and forty prisoners without the use of the
horn.
Stephen Decatur bom in Mainland, and Thomas Jeflferson governor of
Virginia.
1760.
John Tmmbnll, 81. Tarlyca.
Henry KnoX) 56. KmaUIow.
Dr. nUddleton, 67. J&of ifas.
Marslua Sax6f 54. &m lo.
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80. HARRMBUsa, Pa.
Write in a book Arnold's Treason and Andre's
Capture, with an account of the battle of King's
Mountain, the abolition of slavery in Pennsylvania,
and the Dark Day.
81. Kingston, N. Y.
1781. Put Comwallis and his captured army into a cag^e* The planet
Herschel discovered.
82. Rome, N. Y.
1782. Let Daniel Webster and Martin Van Buren play at cricket
With the other distinguished individuals bom in this year.
83. Hudson, N. Y.
•1783.
Symbol
for
83
Sfccaf.y/
The farm where Hudson
now stands, purchased by
Seth and Thomas Jenkins,
with 28 others, and a city
founded where before had
been mised the sheaf.
Let the first Air Balloon
take up a sheal^ and the
Treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United States.
84. Auburn, N. Y.
Let the first ship from the United
States to China take out corn, among
other commodities.
The Towns of
Hartford, \
New Haven, I Connect., were
New London, ^incorporated this
Norwich, [ year.
Middletown, J
1785.
Symbol
for 85
Cup.
1786.
85. Cajiandaigua, N. Y.
Put a cup upon the first organ set up in a
Congregational church.
A treaty of Amity and Commerce concluded
with the king of Prussia may be put in the cup.
86. Ithaca, N. Y.
The Shay's Insurrection caused quite a
brush.
The first Universalist church in the United
States built at Boston.
Symbol
for 86
Brash
jyr J Henry St. John, LardSoKnghroleJdism Hiidison, 85. Mtg etc X- . : ,. f j
• h]mhajvti,B7. Lug trip. ImMpIey, 91. ^tijrno. '|j
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87. Marblehead,
United
Mass.
States' Constitution in the
1787. PiU the
cradle of Liberty.
1687. The first printing press in Pennsylrania set up.
The first thing printed was an almanac.
^ ^ 1567. Virginia Dare, the first English child born in
America.
88. New London, Ct.
1788. Quite a number of women assisted in colonizing Ohio, settled
at Marietta; yet they wore but littJo calico, as they only commenced
planting cotton in the Southern States this year.
89. Catskill, N. Y.
1789. With the 8hawl, or mantle of power, invest General Washing-
ton, as Plresident of the United States, five days after which the States*
General of France met
90. Augusta, Me.
1790.
Symbol
for
90
Peacock
agcyell,
They met their foemen, who quailed and fell j
Yet ere they retreated to light up theit foes.
The flames from three hundred log eabini
The first cotton mill in the United
States at Pawtucket, B. I.
The debt of the United States fund-
ed, and a copyright law passed.
Origin of the party titles, Federalist
and Republican.
91. Plymouth, Mass.
1791. Vermont joined the ring^ of the Union the year the first raihroad
was constructed in England.
92. Andovee, Mass.
1792. With your telescope see how Kentucky can be
A slave-holding liberty State,
While John Burgoyne dies, Lee and Laurens likewise,
And John Paul Jones yields to his fate.
93. Steubenville, O.
1793. The wildcat of revolution which was let loose in France, de-
stroyed Louis XVL Were the slaves in St Domingo, when freed, like
wildcats?
Williams* College, in Williamstown, Mass., was founded this year, fttid
it would be scarcely necessary to inaugurate a wildcat as president, to
remember it, as William and Mary's College, in Virginia, was founded in
1693, just one hundred years previous, the same year the first printing
press was set up in New York.
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Bottverncur Morris.
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94. Haoerstown, Md.
From the Union . . Bow . . . take the Green . . . leaf.
and after having put it in the whisky which caused
the insurrection in Pennsylvania, carry some of it to
the first theatre in Boston.
The Green . . Union . . . Bow ... or Greenville, Union,
and Bowdoin colleges founded.
William C. Bryant and Edward Everett bom.
John Witherspoon and Richard Heniy Lee,
Baron Steuben, John Sullivan, we see
Submitting to the fate that none can flee.
95. Bath, Me.
The P. A. R. titioners of Poland were worse
robbers than owls when they dismembered
Poland. The P. A. R. titioners, Prussia, Aus-
tria, and Russia.
The first printing press in Ohio set up at
Cincinnati.
Samuel Ashe elected governor of North,
and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South
Carolina.
96. Syracuse, N. Y.
1796. Tennessee admitted into the Union the same year the first Meth-
odist church was erected in Boston.
1797.
Symbol
for 97
Wig.
97. "WlLLIAMSBUEO, N. Y.
Put the wig^ upon John Adams, as the second
President of the United States.
Increase Sumner, governor of Massachusetts ;
Isaac Tichnor, governor of Vermont
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MiDDLEBOKOUOH, MaSS.
1798. Vaccinate ^ the g^oose, and let her flee from the rebellion in Ire-
land to Philadelphia, where she caught the yellow fever.
1799.
1^
99. Gardinee, Me.
Battle of Aboukir, in Egypt, gained by Bonaparte*
who soon after returns to France, where he over-
turned the Directory and became First Consul
General* Washington died Dec. 14.
100. Watertown, N. Y.
1800. Battles of Marengo and Hohenlinden.
Washington became the seat of government ibr the United States.
^ Vaccination introduced in 1798.
i7«« AlexBAder Hamilton, hi. Hut la.
* ^' James ffiUhoMc, 79. ^M^rw.
William Enstis, 72. Elipe.
Bishop Berkley, 73. Boopea.
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The Congeessional Apportionment for ten Years prom 1843. ^
Congress is composed of two legislative bodies, called the Senate and
House of Representatives.
The Senate consists of two members from each State elected for ^
years by the legislatures.
The House of Representatives is composed of 223 members elected for
two years by the people, each 70,680 inhabitants being entitled to one
Representative, five slaves counting as three freemen. The number to
which each State is entitled is given below.
Totaipop, MenV'
m 1840. her$.
CUUB,
13
22
21
8
24
20
1
18
2
26
15
4
7
11
9
12
17
19
5
6
3
10
14
16
25
23
27
28
29
30
Statet,
Maine,
New Hampshire,
Vermont, -
Massachusetts,
Rhode Island,
Connecticut, •
New York,
New Jersey, -
Pennsylvania,
Delaware,
Maryland, -
Virginia,
North Caroling,
South Carolina,
Georgia,
Alabama,
Mississippi,
Louisiana,
Tennessee,
Kentucky,
Ohio,
Indiana, -
Illinois^.
Missoifi,
Arkansas, •
Michigan,
Florida Territory,
District of Columbia,
Iowa Territory, •
Wisconsin Teiritoiy»
Slam in 1840.
675
soU
2,604
89,495
448,988
245,817
327,038
280,943
253,532
195,211
168,452
183,059
182,258
ye sylph
grow foul
feeds woods
heel cap
trier treads
ye shy worm
ye livid
howl hand
yam grove
fruit trust
good plush.
58,240 oak doU
19,936 slaw flight
25,1 n Durands •
4,694 foejlee
501,793
284,575
291,948
737,699
109.830
309,979
2,428,922
373,306
1,724,033
78,086
469,232
1,239.797
753,419
594,399
691,392
590,756
375,651
352,411
829,210
779,829
1,519,468
685,866
476,182
383,702
97,59^
212,266
54.475
43,712
43,112
30,945
7
4
4
10
2
4
34
5
24
1
6
15
9
7
8
7
4
4
11
10
21
10
7
5
1
3-
Associations.
The words printed in small capitals represent the names of States, and
the symbol the number of representatives.
1. Put the banner on the Abk ... in the Dxlawakb.
2. Shut up the byciia on Ehode Island.
3. Could you navigate, lake Mighiqak oik a table?
4. The fbx was started in the mountains of Niw Hampbhirb, ehased
through Vbbmomt, swam down the Conneoticut, and was next seen in
Louisiana, swimming up the Mississippi.
1754.
lenrjr Ffelding, 48w Fysoc.
iturj Felham, 60. Pas no my.
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5. The Tessel was built in New Jersey to navigate the Missouri.
6. Let Mary . . . use the saiv* Maryland.
7. The III . . . made ^ Alabama chair give to the black Caroline. *
8. Give George the caiie. Georgia.
9. Tie up the white Caroline with a net. North Carolina.
10. The Massachusetts girl Azo married a Kentucky Indian. . . .
11. You could hardly put Tenn . . . men in a barrel* Tennessee.
15. Let the Virgin . . . ride on a g^oat* Virginia.
21. Wash the handkercliierin the Ohio.
24. Give Penns . . . woods a ilog* to hunt through them. Pennsylvania.
34. A nice pair of tongs, to New York belongs.
Give the Slave States calico 88 members,
for which the Free States may have birds, - • . - 135 members,
if they will only catch them for themselves, but they must
not catch hers. Total, ' 223 members.
Majorities of the Free States in the House of Representatives at each
apportionment *
Free { ^'^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^
ollff »« < A chair, bear and dog. The toiiffs, fence and frog.
states. ^ 7 12 24 34 42 47
Note. — The census upon which the apportionment is founded, is taken in
the decennial year, (1820, *30, *40, and so on,) usually published late in the
succeeding year, and the first members elected under it assemble the next
Presidents.
The South, it seems, have caught the qaaily
The North have chased the bear,
Four times ^ tkey grahhed him hy the tail,
But could not hold him there ;
Perhaps *t were well to give it up
As hopeless — and despair.^
The Parliament op Great Britain in 1841.
p.»i:««nAnf 5 "^^ HousK OF LoiBDS a foxes'-poio . • . . 476 Lords,
rariiameni. | The Owimotw have the wm/ by law - - - 658 Commons.
^ Madx might easily remind us of Maine, which it represents.
* Cabolinx is the designation of the Carolinas, and South Carolina is called the black
Caroline because a large majority of her inhabitants a^ slaves.
* General Harrison held the office one month.
^ Both of the great {little) parties seem to have come to such a conclusion.
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Monteaquieu, 67. Jfooifei^ hajoah kimi, 7 6- Jruth roe. j^-
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Bukes.
Marquises.
Earls.
Viscounts.
Barons.
Scots.
Irish.
Bishops.
England
and
Wales.
Scotland.
Ireland.
The House or Lords.
The House of Lords, the foxes'- paw^
Has eight, and each a different claw,—
The first are Dukes, we'll call them dogs, 24 '
The Jlfar^ms with his basket jogs, • •20
The Earls ^Tejrank, as Earls will be, - - • 117
Viscounts may upon camels flee ; - • • • 22
And next we take the Barons^ hats^ - - - - 219
The Peers of ScotlatuFs yam cravats, - • - 16
The irwAlWfarefondofijgjr'i 28
And Bishops^ ^ Jags stand upon legs. • • • 80
The House op Commons.
I For England's counties bring a gun, - - . 159
The co^e* fox is on the run, 4
Theci/iesS send a rusty f^Teor, . • . • 337
The summons full five hundred liear. - • -
i Then Scotland's counties bring a jag^ - * -30
^ Tlie diadem her cities lug ; 23
* A glove the Irish counties give, • - • - - 64
I The college hyena let live, 2
I Her cities send a sttuirrel down - • - ? 39
^ To make the muff complete from town. ...
476
500
158
658
MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL EVENTS CHRONOLOGIZED.
The Creation,
The duration of the antediluvian World, -
The universal Deluge,
Building of the Tower of Babel, . . -
The kingdom of Egypt founded, • • ,- -
The call of Abraham,
Abraham rescued Lot, who was taken in the
The birth of Ishmael, who was driven
Sodom could not furnish ten righteous to save it, -
The birth of Isaac,
The death of Sarah,
The kingdom of Argos founded by Inachus, •
The birth of Esau and Jacob, . . . •
Esau sells his birthright to Jacob,
Jacob flies to escape the wrath of his brother Esau,
Joseph born, at whom his brethren
Dinah, daughter of Jacob, ravished by Shechem,
Joseph became Prime Minister of Egypt by walking
Jacob dies in the land of Egypt, . -' . .
The death of Joseph i^ Egypt, ....
of an a» tree
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2247
2188
1921
1913
1910
1897
1896
1859
1856
1837
1816
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1745
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Pharaoh's edict for the destruction of the male children, • avoid 1572
Cecrops settles Attica, • - - • • - thus 1556
Deluge of Deucalion, might have wet some one's - - - vest 1529
Establishment of the Amphictyonic Council, • - - lend \62l
Passage of the lied Sea by the Israelites, - .- - -found 1491
The Tables of the Law, and the Golden Calf, - -. - found 1491
Balaam's ass reproves his master, - . . - ^s a fiend 1451 I
Conquest of Canaan under Joshua, .... did noXfail 1445 s
Ruth follows Naomi's tribe 1312 f
Deborah the prophetess rules Israel, .... smooOi 1285 >
Abimelech murders his brothers — of 70, Jotham alone escaped death 1235 <
Abimelech killed by an old woman with a tile, • - he was kit 1233 >
Jephthah sacrifices his daughter, — was he free from - - guUt 1 188 \
The siege of Troy according to Homer's .... hooks W^Ai ^
Samson's stratagem of the foxes and firebrands, - - a whim 1136
Samson's overthrow of the temple, and death, he was not quite bald 1117
The mariner's compass used in China - - to guide the bark 1115
Saul was anointed the first kingof Krael, iii his - - youth 1095
Jonathan and his armor-bearer defeats the Philistines* - - troop 1087
David, the second king of Israel, was noted for his love of - truth 1055
Amnon slain by his brother Absalom, in the • - - spring 1030
Absalom's rebellion against David, to obtain his • disideill 1023
Solomon's judgment upon the child while sitting in his - - g^igf 1013 _
Solomon erects altars to false gods, - • - • he stoops 983 5 '^
Revolt of the Ten Tribes from Rehoboam, when he said " my little
finger shall be thicker than my father's loins" - - loins'^ 915
Zerah invaded Judah with a million of men, - As2i fog him 941
Zimri bums himself and family in his own house, his - • nest 929
Ahab king of Israel, wash 918
Elijah in the wilderness fed by ravens, during his - - • stay 910
Ahab takes possession of Naboth's vineyard, - - - shown 899
Translation of the prophet Elijah, whose cloak Elisha - brought 896
Elisha's miracles of the oil, pottage, and bread, - their growth 895
The army sent to take EUsha smitten with blindness, they shout 893
Two Hebrew mothers ate their own children, their hunger show'd 892
Elisha restCMres the life of the Shunamite's son - - - couch 890
Jehu destroys Jezebel, who is eaten by dogs, but spares her cooks 884
Laws of Lycurgus, even related to the .... cooks 884
Kingdom of Macedonia founded by Caranus with a - • ca^ 813
j; Romulus founded Rome, upon the Tiber, ... - put 753
Rape of the Sabines, by Rome's ' chiefs 750
The first Messenian war, • pofnp 743
; Deioces, elected king of Media, was no cheat 733
Captivity of the Ten Tribes — the kingdom of Israel's - true end 721
' The miracle of the sun-dial — Hezekiah's recovery - • a charm 713
The destruction of Sennacherib's army, without a - - pang 710
The second Messenian war a sort of - • • - school 685
The Scythians invade Media. Something they • - ' - seek 648
Ancus Martins, the fourth king of Rome, - • may sing a song 640
The sanguinary laws of Draco, set 623
Pharaoh Necho, king of Egypt He sent a fleet that circumnavigated
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knowledge for the century.
2^57 Elijah Paine, 85. i\*r CM.
I ' JamaAberenmbie, 84. udlrtipca. ^
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Africa, returning through the Straits of Gibraltar after an absence
of three years. Of Africa it may be said he formed the first map
Jehoiakim revolted against Nebuchadnezzar, losing his • crown
Jehoiacliin, after reigning three months, lost his - - -^ crown
The laws of Solon the archon, - who might be called a tncstee
Jerusalem destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar,
Zedekiah's eyes put out, he ceases to . . . .
Nebuchadnezzar loses his reason, and goes forth upon the
Nebuchadnezzar recovers his reason, - - . .
Confucius born, a philosopher - - - • -
The Phocians founded Marseilles, but did not preserve the
Cyrus leads his army under the walls of Babylon,
Daniel in the lions' den, — not a lion opened his -
The captivity of the Jews ends, with
look
look
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Up
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Tarquin, the'Proud^ seized upon the kingdom ofRome, — a new leaf
leg
left
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that
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a scout
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Cambyses, son of Cyrus, ascends the throne of Persia,
and dies afterwards from a wound in the -
Pisistratus, the best of tyrants, left Athens prosperous,
Anaximenes, of Miletus, invents the sun-dial.
Edict of Darius Hystaspes in favor of the Jews,
Darius repudiates Vashti, and marries Esther,
The dedication of the second Temple, . . •
Darius invades the Scythians, but is repulsed, in
Mordecai, the cousin of Esther, and Haman swapt station^,
Tarquin, the Proud, expelled from Bome, as a •
Carthage made a treaty with Rome, • • • -
^ \ Sardis burnt by the lonians, - • - • •
J 1; The first dictators of Rome, might be called power
^ ;I Rome the Saturnalia founds,
Establishment of the Roman Tribunes,
Coxiolwaw^ found himself banished from Rome,
The Persians defeated by the Greeks at Marathon,
The first proposition of the Agrarian law by Cassius
Aristides the Just banished from Athens, of guilt no -
First Quaestors at Rome, were they in quest of
The battles of TherniopylaB and Salamis, were Grecian
Simonides invented Mnemonics, aids
Battles — Platea and Mycale, where Persians run and -
Victory of the Eurymedon. — The Greeks defeated their
Revolt of the Helots — the third Messenian war,
Ezra commissioned to build Jerusalem, by Artaxerxes, who furnishes
him ihefundsj funds
Creation of the Decemvirs, one of whpm proved a - - fiend
Banishment of the Decemvirs^ and death of Virginia, a - queen
Nehemiah went as governor to Jerusalem, his attempt did not fail
Plebeians allowed to intermarry with thq Patricians, who • fail
Pericles successful in the Samian war - - • • fort
Roman Censors appointed, should they cause a - - - fear
The Peloponnesian war. Its causes and consequences • find
The Plague of Athens, its victims not a - • , • • fo'^
Malachi, the last of the prophets, died, fell
Retreat of the Ten Thousand, they needed no • - oa; goad •
617
599
599
594
588
588
569
562
55a
539
536
537
536
534
529
521
527
520
519
518
515
513
510
509
509
499
498
497
493
491
490
485
484
483
480
'479
479
466
464
457
451
449
445
445
440
437
431
429
420
401
« See Rule V. A date is frequently fxpressed on the commencement of a word.
1758.
Noah Webgter, 85.
James Honroe, 78.
0» H. de Lafayette) 77. Larushrm.
Fisher Ames, 50. Amshly.
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The death of Socrates, a shame to his native • - • tourn. 399
Battle of Coronea, where the Athenian said • - - IJlee 39 \
Rome taken by the Gauls, and withers at their - - - touch 390
Battle of teuctra, where Thebes spoils Sparta, - • • spoils 371
The first Plebeian Consul at Rome had toes 366
The Thebans triumphed at Martinea, with - - - ease 362
Discovery of Analysis by Plato, - easy 360
The accession of Philip II., king of Macedon, was it - just 359
The breaking out of the Sacred War, was it ... ju^t 359
The Plebeians admitted to the dictatorship, - - - Just 359
The Mausoleum erected, the sixth wonder, not without a tug 351
The Plebeians admitted to the censorship, not without a - tug 351
Second commercial treaty between Rome and Carthage, • ^eeds 348
The Samnite war commenced, which lasted 53 years, where the spot 343
Battle of Chceronea, what does it speak 338
Plebeians admitted to the prsetorship, they left the praetor's spear 337
Accession of Alexander the Great and Darius, an unequal team 336
Battle of the Gianichus, speaks 334
Battle of Arbela — fail of Darius, his last - • - y^ 331
Alexander penetrates into India, his strength he • - - spends 327
Death of Alexander the Great, end of his ... term 323
Demosthenes poisoned himself, his last journey he • - sped 322
The Samnites pass the Romans under Uieir yoke, they - - tend 321
Seleucus establishes the kingdom of Syria, the first king of his tribe 312
Papirius Cursor erects the first sun-dial at Rome, to mark the ?iours 293
The Gauls invaded Greece, - • • • - - ye know 279
The first silver money coined at Rome, its • - • - dawn 269
The conquest of Italy by Carthage, • • . • • • y^ saw 266
The first Punic war .commenced, in defence of* • • - hawks^ 264
Regulus, defeated by the Carthaginians, ..... dies 256
The Clepsydra invented, and • - . • • • - hung 250
End of the first Punic war, • - - - • • • dc^ 24 1
The first play acted at Rome, used a doU 240
Temple of Janus shut — first time since Kuma» war put to deaik 235
Hannibal takes Saguntum, but finds it . - . • haa-d 219
The second Punic war, does not - haU 218
Battle of Thrasymenus, Hannibal scarce left Jiit enemy a plank 217
Battle of Cannae, the victory Hannibal • • - - has 216
The Romans take Syracuse, which the Carthaginians - • had 212
The Romans conquer Sicily, but not in a • • - - » day 210
Hannibal's defeat at the battle of Zama, - - • • eye 202
Battle of CyhoscephalsB, Rome increases its - • • hounds 197
The Romans defeated Antiochus the Great, who had defeated m,a«y 190
Pumps invented by Hero of Alexandria, the first of - - o«y 190
PhilopoBmen abolishes the laws of Lycurgus's, . . - hook 188
Banishment of Scipio Africanus from Bome„ not as a - - hoar 187
Battle of Pydnae -— Perseus brought to Rome to be punished, foi /rat*ds 168
The third Punic w;ar, in which multitudes were • • slain 149
Corinth and Carthage burnt to the grotind, by • • - whom ? 146
Precession of the Equinoxes, from difficulty - . • Jreed 142
The project of Tiberius Grachusv that the poor might - - eat^ 133
CaiuS Grachus sought to accomplish the same, - • - ^H^' 121
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Tbe Jugiuthine war commenced, by his 5a«(i 111
The Cimbric war, one of Rome's greatest perils, • - - aye 102
The king of l^arthia sends a political embassy to China, as he ought 96
The Social and Mithridatic wars, were neither about - calico 88
The first civil war raged, no safety even in the - - cradle 87
Roman servile war, resembled throwing overboard tea and peaches ^ 73
War of the Pirates. Pompey defeated them, so they felt blue 67
Cataline*s Conspiracy discovered by Cicero, who holds the mirror 63
First triumvirate — Caesar, Pompey, and Cmssus, give tobacco 60
Cicero banished at the instigation of Clodius. He wore his cloak 68
Caesar visits Britain, in truth 55
Caesar passes the Rubicon, "Rubicon 49
The second civil war in Kome, to see who shall wear the boot 48
The Ptolemaic Library set on fire, it was - - - ' old ^7
Cato kills himself at Utica, He is his own .... foe 46
Julius Caesar assassinated, like a ..... quail 44
Second triumvirate — Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus, its trait 43
Battle of Philippi-*- Brutus and C^ssius defeated. They needed aid 42
Heiod king of Judea, this - year 37
Battle of Actiiim — Octaviu^s victory, he obtained the laurel sprig 31
The death of Antony and Cleopatra, .... each 30
Herod, king of Judea, murders his wife Mariamne, - - - how 29
Augustus proclaimed EmJ>eror of Rome, was it his - - due ? 27
Christian Era, A. M. 4004.
Vanus, with three legions, cut to pieces, who defeated
Tiberius, Emperor of Rome, when, do yon -
Introduction of silk" dresses by Tiberius, made of
Pontius Pilate governor of Judea, was it his -
Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, in the - - -
Sejanus disgraced, does a felon's death find.
Being strangled, because as it seem'd he designed
To murder Tiberius and all of his race.
Usurp his high station and reign in his place,
St. Paul's miraculous conveifsion. He manifested his
Caligula becomes the fourth Emperor of Rome, this •
Th« Disciples called Christians fijrst at Antioch,
Seigius Paulus, the Proconsul, converted, through Paul *s
Claudius stays Messalina — or aids,
Then inakes Agrippina his wife ;
His own son for hers he degrades.
Which done, she deprives him of life ;
She poisons her hitsband, to make her son rdom.
Unwept and unpitied he goes tp the tomb.
Ah, Nero ! for what is the world to thank thee?
For poisoning Brittanicus ? Go see him lie -
For making a bonfire of Rome iii thy ^lee ?
For the First Persecution of Christians we see.
Or granting to Seneca how he might die ? - - ,
Thy mother, ah me ! ' t was thy hand laid her low,
If a inother thus perished ! what blood might not flow.
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Samuel Richardson.
Bishop Hoadley, 85. ffueicu*
Samuel Dairies, 37. Defear.
J)r. Sherlock, 84. Sam rue co.
Loadstone discovered, long before - • - * • tobacco 60
St. Peter and St Paul crucified, martyrdom they - - - saw 66
Destruction of Jerusalem. The Temple a ruined • pyramid 70
The first recorded eruption of Vesuvius, you • - - k?iow 7 9
The Second general Persecution of Christians, in Christianity's youth 93
St. John dies at Ephesus, noiv 9S)
Tacitus, the Roman historian dies, now 99
The Third Persecution under Trajan, How prejudice • betrays^ 106 '
Accession of Adrian, whose face was not quite - - bald 117
An insurrection in which half a million of Jews die, instigated by the
impostor Barchochebas, feed him on - - - - bean& 135
The Saracens first mentioned in history, a name they - - gain 149
The Fourth Persecution under M. A. Antonius, with misery fraught 166
The Fifth Persecution of Christians under Severus's • - ^ye 202
Carracalla became Emperor, and slew his brother, with his own hand 211
Heliogabalus assassinated by the guards, .... help 222
Alexander Severus called to his aid 16 Senators, as his - help 222
Maximin, a gigantic Thracian peasant, Emperor of Rome, He ex-
cited the Sixth Persecution of the Christians, putting them to deatJi 235
The secular games celebrated by Philip, the Arabian, to commemo-
rate the thousandth year of Rome's great - • • deeds 248
Pompey's Theatre burnt in this year of . . - -' deeds 248
The Seventh Persecution of Christians uuder Darius, - hurtg 250
The Goths invade the Roman Empire, and on its borders - hung 250
Eighth Persecution under the Emperor Valerian. Among the victims
were St Lawrence, St. Stephen, and St. Cyprian, of Carthage,
whom Valerian sought to hush 258
Era of the Thirty Tyrants, and invasion of the Hun, • - Hun 259
Sapor, the Persian, takes Antioch, in one of his ... hauls 261
The Emperor Claudius pounced like a hawk, - • hawk 268
Upon the rude GJoths who his empire defied,
And soon they concluded 't were better to walk.
While of pestilence, he, after two years' reign, died, - 270
Aurelian excited the Ninth Persecution ere he died, - • 272
Aurelian defeated Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, leaving her a doit 273
Diocletian became Emperor of Rome, in a - - - - jy.egrce 264
Diocletian divided the empire, as he would an old - - - ewe 292
Diocletian excited the Tenth Persecution,^ the Christians - spying 303
iTHE TEN PERSECUTIONS. ^
DJ* Associate each of the FefMeatitnu wiih ihe Symbolt.
The FiBST pERiECtJTioN by NERO we Me^ - - - «ff 64
Who once made a bonfire of Rome in hia glee.
The SkCond occurred in Christian [ty'§ youth, - - - yQuih 05
Under DOMITIAN,an opposer of truth.
The Third Pbesecxjti ON, in good TRAJAN'S days, - - doyt 106
The only fonl blot that detracts from hU praise.
The Fourth Persecution, with miec^riea fraught^ - - fiaugfU lOG
Is a comment on what good AURELI OS taxigbt/
The Fifth one occurred under SEVKRUS'S eye, - • f^i 202
Who was anxious indeed that the CS^ristians should die.
The Sixth Persecution of Chtisdaiis to death, - - deaUi 2S5
Ceased not, until ceased brutal MAXTMIN'S breath.
Under DECIUS the Seventh, who, had he been hung, - AuTsg- 250
We know not how many had joyfully sung.
The Eighth Persecution sought Btehopa to hush, * - hush 258
' ] These, VALERIAN tbooght, whM he needed to crush.
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The Franks invade Gaul, and many an opposing Roman * dies 256
Diana, fair temple — earth's grandest of huts, "j
Where Paul met the craftsmen of shrines and of buts, I ,
Sent lip its last offering, an incense of flame, [ '
And of all its proud glory there lives but the name, J
Maxirnenlius, for a shroud, in Old Tiber clad, ... clad 312
How few who mourned him — how many were glad.
The death of the wicked Maximin, - - - - - talk 313
The opinions of Arins promulgated, and with the Bible - clash 318
Constantine the Great, sole Emperor, the commencement of his term 323
First Ecclesiastical Council at Nice, - - - - . J hie 325
Constantine embraces Christianity, in the capital it pitches its tents 328
Removal of the seat of Empire from Rome to Constantinople no Jest 329
Death of Constantine, he lays down his - . . - ^ear 337
The Empire divided among Constantine's three sons/ - a spear 337
Julian, the apostate Emperor. He restores Paganism, and vainly at-
tempts to build the t^mplie, which was not ... cas^ 360
The battle of Adrianople, Valens defeated, and his army - spoilt 378
Invention of saddles, a riding ^ • - - - - tool 385
Theodosius, the last sole Roman Emperor, the purple - . - took 388
Theodosius prohibits Paganism, which you must not - - touch 390
Theodosius divides the Empire into the Eastern and Western, towns 395
Arcadius succeeds to the Eastern and Honorius to the Western, towns 395
The first bell founded, - - - ' - - - trv 400
Alaric, the Visigoth, takes Rome, — its - - - - fall 410
The Kingdom of the Visigoths founded, kt first it was - scant 412
The Kingdom of the Burgundians established, they lay out iheir farm 413
The Kingdom of the Franks founded, by Pharamond - - fell 420
The Kingdom of the Vandals, in Africa, by Genseric the ferocious 427
The Romans withdraw from Britain, their loss the British - felt 428
Attila demanded payment of Theodosius, he claimed his - fees 446
The Ninth Pkbsecutor AURELIAN, ere . , ^ ere 272
The edict he signM did a thunderbolt hear,*
! The Tenth, DIOCLETIAN, on Christmas day spying - tpyi;Q.g 303
\ A meeting of Christians, he left them all dying.f
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Four sons had Constantine the Great,
To slay Cmspus, Fausta did tempt,
Soon aAer she met a like fate,
But from guilt, not like him exempt
Constantine designed to extort •
From Constans' dominions a part,
But his fancied triumphs were short,
. As death soon found way to his neart.
Constantjus reigned in the East,
His character easy and weak,
His rule was the longest and least.
Though his empire included the Greek,
And Con STAN s the youngest still clung
To regions he ruled in the West,
Until Magnentius up sprung^
And the Empire attempted to wrest.
tempt
326
extort
340
easy
360
clung
350
• Aurelian was arrested in the act of signitag the edict for the Persecution of the Christians by a thunderbolt
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1762.
Dr, Bradley, 70. Bawdry.
Roger Griswold, 50. Gaudly, \
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iEdward Naros, 79. Naudww.
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EVENTS CHRONOLOOIZED.
The Saxons enter Britain,^ • - fain
Attila defeated at the battle of ChaJons, the • fraud} Jiend
Venice founded by refugees from Venetia, in the • - fuss
Death of Attila, the scourge of God, wrap him in • - • furs
Genseric takes and pillages Rome, as easily as he crossed the Prutk
Accession of Leo the Great, — dress him in - - - - fur
Augustulns Romulus, last Emperor of Rome, resigns to Odoacer, the
Herulian chief, a fbxes paw
Death of Genseric, the Vandal, he was - - • foiUd
The battle of Soissons gained by Clovis, no - • • fool
Anastasius, Emperor of the East, a throne he - •
Odoacer murdered by Theodoric, the Ostrogoth,
Clovis converted to Christianity, as he • - - *
Clovis makes Paris his capital, there his army -
The Persecution of the Jews, not the ... -
Theodoric puts Boethius to death, the last of •
Two earthquakes in the East, the first, of •
The second,
The order of Benedictines instituted, first stand upon -
Justinian, Emperor of the East, . . - , .
The first Monastery of the West at Monte Cas«ino,
An Insurrection at Constantinople, takes the . - - - lead
Justinian's Code of Laws, ... - . . Hap
Belisarius takes Carthage, and turns over a new - - . leaf
Computation of Time by the Christian Era adopted, as we learn
Belisarius conquers Italy and takes Rome, I • • - thmk
Belisarius refuses the sceptre of Italy, lor^
King Arthur in Britain died, and in his grave was • • lard
Totila, the Goth, takes Italy's, lot * - • - • lot
But, as many would do, he plunders it not
Belisarius reconquered it, but it was vain, ... vain
For Totila, the Goth, retook it again.
Silkworms brought from China by two Monks, who kept them simg
Totila defeated and killed.
By Narses, but not with a crutch, ... crutch
And Italy's GJothic Empire,
Thus ended — one battle too much.
Did Clotaire crush his opponents ?-.»-. crush
Belisarius for his eminent services to Justinian saw his property con-
fiscated, his lawns
Kingdoni of the Lombards founded, put their long beards into a vaidt
The Latin language ceases to be spoken, by - - - Jj,ucy
549
558
565
568
580
For help in the end, to the Saxons they send,
JPoin came they, and then the foe flV, •
But woe to the aay of their coining, for they
Are nohle and valiant in fieht ;
Their own native land, is a desolate strand
And this is so lovely and hright, —
The victor has spoil as the meed of his toil,
Is the motto they choose to obey;
So each of them sends to call over his^Mends,
And the Islanders yield to their sii^y.
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Rev. Benjaralii Wooster, 77. Wa/tsirui^
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Antioch destroyed by an earthquake, for which historians voicch 590
Gregory the Great becomes Pope, we are willing to - - vouch 590
St Augustine goes over to Britain, to fulfil his - - - vows 596
Papal supremacy and Image worship a ... mysiery 606
Heraclins becomes Emperor, they - - - - - - say 610
Clotaire II. sole King of France, upon the throne he - - sat 613
The Persians take captive 270,000, or the erysipilas - - man 619
Era of the Hegira, or the flight of - • • - Moharamec? 622
Chosroes deposed and compelled to witness the murder of his
eighteen sons, did not his heart ' melt ? 628
Death of Mohammed, who went to bliss 632
Pens first made from quills, to write an - - • Awiograph 634
Alexandrian Library destroyed, after the Saracens* • - sort 640
The Lombard Code of Laws meet 643
The Saracens take Cyprus, something they - - - seek 646
Yezdegerd, the last of the Sassanides, defeated and killed, and Persia
annexed to the Caliphate, hke a - - - - - mug 651
The era of the Sassani^^, 226
The Saracens take Rhodes, and raise the Colossus from the mud 652
The Saracens pay tribute, without a blush 658
Organs first used in Churches, remember we - • - must 659
Constantinople besieged by the Saracens, vainly they • - sued 672
The Saracens invade Spain, but are expelled from its • - soil 675
Justinian IL Emperor, when he ought to have been at • • school 685
Justinian II. exiled to Chessonse in the - - - - sout^i 695
Ceadwalla take Sussex and Kent, in • • . - • • gloom 686
Anafesto First Doge of Venice, mould 697
John the Patrician,' defeats the Saracens, they are - • • mmcn 699
After the battle of Xerxes, Roderic sought to pass - - pass 712
The Guadalquiver in his flight, but he was drowned, alas I
The Saracens take Spain, as with a charm 713
Pope Gregory n. pursued a wrong - • - - - path 715
Leo III., Greek Emperor, worthy his • - - • -^ rank 717
The reign of Pelayo, the - rash 718
Leo III. forbids the worship of pictures, images, and saints, a check 726
Pope Gregory expelled the Lombards, as a - - - - pest 729
The bloody battle of TOURS lasted severe days, of which we read 732
The Abbassides triumph over the Omniades, whom they enc^am 749
The Saracen Caliph, Alamansor, a cruel .... chief 754
A general council at Constantinople condemn the worship of images,
pictures, and saints as idolatry, in opposition to Rome's - chi^ 754
End of the Lombard Kingdom, rw^ul 774
Haroun Al Raschid Caliph, his a splendid • . • • room 786
Constantine reigns, in his mother's • room 786
Restoration of Image worship, -..-•• poor 787
The Bishops idly (370) oppose the project. *
The Danes appear in- England, ' -. - . - • poor 787
Irene murders her son Gonstantine, the unfeeling - - rook 787
Irene wishes to marry Charlemagne, but he lets her • • pout 793
Upon Cyprus and Rhodes the Saracens pour, • - - pour 797
Charlemagne Emperor, his empire oozy 800
Leo, the Armenian Greek Emperor, give him a - - - ca« 813
Alamon, the Caliph, give a -" - - - • • - co^ 813
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^'^ Stephen Van Rangalaer, 75. iifaw/pe.
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Edward Livingston, 72. Zaufr$.
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Louis, the German, give a cap 817
Michael II, the Stammerer Emperor, give him his prison key 820
Egbert unites the Saxon Heptarchy, let him stand up<Mi • kegs 821
The Caliph's Turkish Guard, give them a • • • - co^ 841
Michael III., a bad boy, it is agreed^ 842
Union of the Picts and Scots, forming Scotland, in a • - cot 843
The Normans take Rouen, every - • . • . co< 843
The treaty of Verdun, was it foVmed in a - • . - • cot 843
Hamburg taken by the Saracens, for its • • - - broth 645
Alphonso the Great, give him a pair of 'shoes 866
Alfred the Great king of England, heals the ... broils 871
Charles, the fat Emperor, . cools 881
Charles, the fat, deposed, but not put into a • • • coop 887
Louis IV., of Germany, the Child, gtoum 899
Death of Alfred the Great, he crosses the .... styx 900
Normans established in Normandy, which they - • want 912
Five German nations elect an Emperor, whom they - warU 912
Constantino VII , Emperor, A five years' old boy they - want 912
Otho, the Great Emperor, what did he - - - - dream ? 936
St. Dunstan Abbott of Glastonbury, his cell .... drear 937
Edgar, King of England, he carried off a .... nun 959
Hugh Capet, King of France, did he stocp ? 987
Pope Sylvester II., a - - - . - . - noun 999
Arabic numerals introduced, all try 1000
Ethelred massacres the Danes, all ye 1002
Which rouses Sweyn's avenging arm, - ... arm 1013
Canute, the first Danish King of England, caught in the - trap 1017
Romanus III, Emperor, feed him on eggs 1028
Zoe poisons Romanus, her husband, the first of her - - trio 1034
Chiistian kingdoms of Spain united, by Sancho's - - - seal 1035
The Comneni family rise up, up 1057
Battle of HASTINGS. The Norman Conquest, William - saw 1066
Doomsday Book formed, sht/ 1080
Accession of William Rufus, a troop 1087
" The Old Man of the Mountains," establishes the " Assassins" young 1090
The First of the Crusades, the cause of • - - . woe 1096
Jerusalem taken by the Crusaders, now 1099
The led dies now now 1099
Henry I., King of England, who deserves the title - • bad^ 1100
Wars between England and France begun, so put up the - bars 1113
Knights of St. John and Knights Templars, known by their garb 1118
The Shipwreck — Prince Henry drowned, toll the - - bell 1120
The Concordatof Worms, put to bed 1122
Stephen, the twenty-fourtA King of England, feed him on beans 1135
Alphonso, the first King of Portugal, give a .... bean 1139
Manuel L, Greek Emperor, a name has • - • - ^0^1143
Arnold of Brescia, give • . beef 1 144
The Second Crusade, , . bold 1147
Frederic Barrabossa, gave 1152
Milan destroyed by Frederic Barrabossa, the * - - base 1 1 62
Genghis Khan, the greatest of murderers, bom ,• - • 56^^1164
The Constitutions of Clarendon, - - *' . . ^ce" 1164
The Invasion of Ireland by Henry II, - - . - . bare 1112
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Saladin takes Jerusalem, to ------ bidld 1187
The Third Crusade undertaken, pull on your • - - boots 1189
Richard Coeur de Lion, King of England, in • - • boots 1189
The Crusaders take Acre, whither they are - - - bound 1191
John, the tw€nti/'fiev€7ifJi Sovereign of Engldindf given, - gourd 1199
The Fourth Crusade undertaken, wliich • - - eye 1202
The battle of Tolosa, between the Christians and Moors, - - had 1212
Battle of Bouvi lies between Philip and John, a - - • Aarp 1214
Magna Charta granted by King John, .... hath 1216
The Fifth Crusade was fruitless, hands 1217
Lonis IXm King of France, on ...... deck 1226
The Sixth Crusade, by Frederic II., give him an - - herb 1228
The Hanseaiic League of the towns, not about - - a hog 1241
The Seventh Crusad^e, by Louis IX., whs^t were his - - deeds 1248
Alphonzo X., King of Castile and Lean< descended from - Eve 1252
Linen first made in England, in a hut 1253
The Second Greek Empire establi9hed, .... below 1259
The first Parliament of JEngland, a • - . . . haul 1266
Louis IX. set on foot the Eights Crusade, in which he died, erysipilas 1270
Glass Mirrors invented, their ' - . - - - - - era 1271
Edward I , twnity-7imth Sovereign of England, was not a^Ze-pated 1272
The Sicilian Vespers, 4000 French massacred, their - dooms
The Conquest of Wales, by Edward I, - • - • hoot
Philip the Fair, King of France, smooth
The decision of Edward I., between Baliol ajid Bruce, an old ewe
Wallace's attempt to free Scotland, for an
Spectacles invented at Pisa, put the^m ...
The battle of Courtray. The French defeated,
The Mariners Compass invented, with which, sailors -
Knights of St. John at Rhodes, ...
Battle of BANNOCKBURN. Scotland freedi
Battle of Morgarten. ludependenoe of Switzerland,
Rise of the- Ottoman Power,
Notes of Music invented, which
Union of Rense. Opposition td the Popejr - - -
Battle of Tarifa, Cannons first u&ed, -
Cantaciizene, a Regency, - - • - , -
Battle of Cressy gained by the English, upon ...
The Revolution of Rienzi, as w'e are •
The Pestilence prevails through Europe, it - • -
Peter the Cruel. Fatly an ju, (Rule IX.) Hang him with
Great Earthcjuake in South Roumelia^ ....
Marino Faliwo, \^\e fifty -seventh Doge of Venice executed, ii^ triumph 1355
Battle of Poitiers, King John taken prisoner, - - - a turn 1356
John Wickliffe commenced a reformation, not ... easy
Invention of Metal-drawing and Pins, .... ea^y
Accession of Charies v., of France, - - - - - Isee
Accession of Tamerlane, who vowed but idly,^ • - idly
The Great Schism. The Apostolic Succession, - - spoilt
The Invention of Playing Cards, - - - - I sky
John of Portugal, the ustirper, give - *• - a tooth
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1285
1292
1297
down 1299
arm ye 1302
amp ye 1302
a tax 1310
- a task 1314
a spark 1315
a^eck 1326
teach 1330
speak 1338
a sport 1340
a job 1341
a claim 1346
toU 1347
speeds 1348
ivy 1350
triumph 1355
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' h\m TmuitluU, 87. Toes me. Dr. Birch, 61. jBythma.
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The Insurrection of Wat Tyler, who used his - - - tools
Accession of Bajazet, in an iron cage fed with - • - a spoon
Accession of House of Lancaster, in Henry IV., - - arm now
Battle of Angora. Defeat of Bajazet by Tamerlane, - ask ye
The accession of Sigismond, his opposers could not - - thwart
Battle of Agincourt, the English defeat the French, - scathe
The unworthy John II. of Navarre, scan
The Treaty of Troyes, - - ■ fell
Accession of Henry VI., and Charles VII, both - - fed
Joan of Arc raises the siege of Orleans. Her inspiration • felt
Joan of Arc burnt at the stake by the English, we - - Jincl
Cosmo I., of Florence, the ** Father of his Country " - * go to
Alphonso v., of Naples, his throne they sought to - - Jilch
Invention of Carriages, to be drawn not by - - - - a/ox
Invention of Printing, somewhat in the . • . . fog
Constantine Pala^ologus, last of the Greek Emperors, • - feeds
Insuitection of Jack Cade, not a fend
Taking of Constantinople, and the Emperor's ... furs
At the Battle of St. Albans, - go lie
The invention of Felt Hats, made of • - - • - fur
Engraving on Copper invented, when .... ask Ma
Accession of Edward IV., and Louis XI., ... ask Ma
Era of the Ernestene and Albertine Houses, with all their fauUs
Accession of Galeazzo Sforza, who merited his - - - foes
Marriage of Ferdinand the Catholic and Isabella, the - fawn
At the Battle of Tewksbury Edward IV. foils his enemies, fo^ls
Charles of Burgundy killed, his enterprises - - - foil'd
The Inquisition established at Seville, ... go shy
Accession of Edward V., and Charles VIII., both boys - afoot
Kichard III. conceals his nephews, mischief - - - . afoot
Battle of Bosworth, Henry VII. defeated Richard HI, each afoot
Cape of Good Hope discovered by Bartholomew Diaz, - go shoe
Pope Innocent VIII., and Lorenzo de Medici die, they are gone
The Conquest of Grentida and expulsion of the Jews from Spain, g^onc
First voyage of Cohimhns for discovery, .... gone
Expedition of Charles VII I. to Naples, he resolved to - prowl
The Cabots first discover North America, its coasts they scour
Columbus sent to Spain in chains, sorely . - - . trieD
Discovery of Bra;«il, and birth of Charles V., both - • trieD
Death of Alexander I. from poison prepared for another, - crying
Th6 French defeated at the battle of Creignola, - - crying
League of Cambray,^ Lo Ma Fe Ju, ... a Zycanthropy
Accession of Henry VIII, marries Catharine of Spain, - a lynx
Holy league against France,* SwiS Ve Ju - - - - lay
Conquest of Cuba by the Spaniards, ... - Cuba
Battle of Ravenna gained by Gastoil de Foix, little mor^fhan a lad
Florida discovered by Ponce de Leon, who thought to become a lad
tSelim L poisoned his father Bajazet II, growing bad ^om a lad
Battle of Flodden-field, James IV. slain, in - • - . that
, 1 Louis XXL, the Emperor Maximilian, Fei4inandof Sj^n, and Pope Julius 11, united
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avers 1523
crews 1525
Balboa discovered the South Sea, (Pacific,) in
Accession of Francis I. Favalidle not - - -
Battle of Marignan Francis I. defeated the Swiss, -
Death of Ferdinand and accession of Charles V.,
Death of Stanislaus and accession of Louis II., his son,
Reformation of Luther, for which ....
Slaves introduced into America, who deserves
Invention of Gunlocks, whom shall we - - -
Discovery of Mexico, followed by -
Cortes invades Mexico, an Empire - . - -
Voyage around the world commenced, an undertaking
Charles V. Emperor, of an Empire - . - -
The Massacre of the Swedish nobility, they could not
Death of Montezuma, which he could not
Meeting of Henry VIII and Francis L, war did not -
Introduction of Turkeys and Chocolate into England, to
The Turks take Belgrade, without the loss of -
Siege of Rhodes with 200,000 men, by Soliman I.,
Accession of Gustavus Vasa, the historian
Discovery of New 'Holland by the Portuguese,
Battle of Pavia, Francis I. taken prison«er by Charles V., and his crei^s 1525
Institution of the Capuchin Order, of .... crews 1525
Walachia and Moldavia overrun by the Turks, and the fatal battle of
Mohaz, the Turks conquered them 1526
Francis Pizzarro invades Peru, and butchers many of - - them 1526
Henry VIII. begins to aver his marriage with Catharine unlawful, 1527
New Guinea discovered by Savedra, a Spaniard,
Vieniia besieged by the Turks, a piratical
The Reformers acquired the name of Protestants, as
First voyage to Guinea for elephants' teeth, as an ivory
The Confession of Augsburg, a futile
Tlie League of Smaleald, in favor of - - - -
Henry VIII. marries Anne Boleyn, to the altar
Ivan V. Does Ivan the Terrible limp ?
Sir Thomas More. Sir T. More resign the Great Seal,
Elizabeth bom. The Lady Elizabeth crimp,
Of Calvinists, fiery with zeal,
Kerornmtion of Henry VIII, In England, who turns over a new
Accession of Christian IIL, who turns over a new -
C:irlier visits Canada, and turns over a - - - -
Corlez discovered California, give him ....
The Anuha^ptist War in Germany, murdered else than -
Exec:ulion of Anne Boleyn, '*alas ! that I snould come to •
First suppression of the Monasteries in England, from
Alexander de Medici assassinated by a relative, I • -
Succeeded liy Costno do Medici the First Grand Duke, I
Henry VIII.'s third wife, Jane Seymour, dies in child-bed, I
Chili discovered by Diego de Almagro; I ...
Invention of Lotteries, to gambling
Last Caslillan Cortes assembled, who has the
The Expedition of De Soto to Florida, mention his
aver 1527
crew 1529
a crew 1529
thing 1530
thing 1530
Zt^>erty 1531
lead 1532
limp 1533
leaf 1534
leaf 1534
leaf 1534
a veal 1535
a veal 1535
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Lawrence Sterne.
Eli WbilDey, 57. Watdlup.
Isaac PaAer, 62. Patdt me.
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Ignatius Loyola founds the order of Jesuits, which existed long 1540
First English vessel sails to China, with - - - - ahg \dM
River Mississippi discovered, from a log 154:1
Cartier builds a Zc^o- fort at Quebec, a ^^ 1541
Assassination of Pizarro, his conquest what - - -. avails 1541
Japan discovered by the Portuguese, • - - . - - laid 1542
Death of Hernando de Soto, in a hollow oak, in the river laid 1542
Mary Stuart born, in her cradle laid 1542
Catharine Howard beheaded, on the block her head she - • laid 1542
Peace o^ Crespi, the Prench give up Italy, and her - - creeks 1544
Silver mines of Potosi discovered, what does it - - avail? 1545
Massacre of the Vaudois, what does it ... - avail? 1545
The Council of Trent, what does it avail? 1545
Assassination of Cardiftal Beaton, beaten to death with - a thorn 1546
Doctrines of Socinius promulgated, to Calvin - - a thorn 1546
'Death of Henry VIII. aud Francis I, do their spirits go aloft? 1547
Death of Cortez, the conqueror of Mexico, shall he go - aloft? 1547
Accession of Edward VI. and Henry II., who go - - - aloft 1547
Fesehi's conspiracy in Genoa, he goes .... cdoft 1547
Invention of the Balance Wheel, one of the philosopher's creeds 1548
Roberval sails for Canada with a colony, but they are all - lost 1549
The Plough introduced into Peru, to agriculture an - - • aUy 1550
Era of the English Puritans, Liberty's ... - ally 1550
Treaty of Passau, Germany and Protestantism - • dXlied 1552
Mary, Queen of England, give a crutch 1553
Roxalana murdered her step-son, Mustapha, • - - a crutch 1553
Mary married Philip II, who thus sought to become - - a thief 1554
John Rogers and others burnt, for them let Gardiner • - lurk 1555
Coligni sends a colony to Brazil, for whom Portuguese • lurfc 1555
Abdication of Charles V., thus 1556
Accession of Sebastian at three years of age, give him - a crunib 1557
Accession of Elizabeth, does she take ... - srmff? 1558
Peace of Chateau Cambresis, peace even with - - a crust 1559
Accession of Charles IX., a boy ten years old, and - - busy 1560
John Knox engaged in the Eeformation in Scotland, - - Irusy 1560
Eric, Eling of Sweden, busy 1560
Coligni plants a colony in Florida, so they may be free from ^buse 1562
First Civil War in France, Catholics Protestants - - ^use 1562
The English engage in the Slave Trade, let demons • - laugh 1563
Michael Angelo, also Calvin, died, \
Shakspeare and Gralileo born beside, > - - also 1564
While first in coaches English gentry ride, j
Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Darnley, let royalty - - crawl 1565
The Holy League for the extirpation of Protestantism, and its laws 1566
Murder of Rizzio, in defiance of the - - - - laws 1566
The Turks invade Hungary, regardless of all - • • laws 1566
The Second Civil War in Pmnce, Battle of St DennisT, - crawVd 1567
Murder of Darnley by Bothwell^ or some viper that / - crawVd 156*^
Mary Stuart takes refuge in Eng'land after the def§feit of her forces
at Glasgow, and Elizabeth puts her in " / " - cl vault 1566
Execution of the Counts Egmont and Horn, put tjieir bodies in a vault 1568
Battle of Jarnic, the Protestants defeated, on y - . a lawn 1569
Catharine made peace with the Huguenots, whom she resolved to bury 1570
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Napifleon Boiaparte, 52. SawnU.
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Sigismund II. died, the last of the Jagellons, the throne - void
The Duke of Norfolk executed, a fate he could not - - avoid
Remorse and death of Charles IX., did he bend the - - . knee ? ^
Cosmo, Grand Duke of Tuscany, died, did he bend the - knee ? ^
The league for the extirpation of the Protestants, they - rue ^
The Republic of Hollatid formed, the united - - ark row
Union of Spain and Portugal, Portugal of the Spanish - ark shy
Siberia conquered, which acknowledged the first Russian uca se
Calendar reformed by Gregory XIII, a Popish - - rebuke
Theodore succeeds Ivan the Terrible, - - - - . aloof
The Prince of Orange murdered, from his murderers keep oho/
Sir Walter Raleigh attempts to colonize Virginia, his efforts unsuc-
cessful, he might have better kept ' " ♦ " aloof
Davis's Straits discovered, on a cruise
Potatoes introduced into Ireland, after - - - - a cruise
Raleigh's colony carried to England by Sir F. Drake, on his cruise
Mary Stuart executed, 45 years after she first lay in her crncile '
Destruction of the invincible Armada, at it - • * look
The Duke of Guise, and the Cardinal of Lorraine assassinated, look
The English Mercury, first newspaper published, at it - - look
Henry III. assassinated by Jacques Clement, did he die in a stpoon ?
Sigismund III. united Poland and Sweden, - - • « crowd
Telescope and Thermometer invented, a - - telescope '
Henry IV. abjured the Protestant religion, from policy - tltough
The United Provinces gain the victory of Tumhout, and Philip devour
First European child born in North America, put in the crafUe"
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End of the Ruric Dynasty in Russia, in
The Edict of Nantes, toleration to Protestant
Revolt in Ireland, of Irish ...
Oliver Cromwell born, to control ...
The East India Company formed, their
Union of England and Scotland, which became
The Gunpowder Plot, is not
The Settlement at Jamestown, is - - -
The founding of Quebec by Champlain, no • -
Hudi^on River discovered, a sort of - - -
Hudson, his son, and some others, they say, )
Deserted and perished, in Hudson's Bay, J
Henry IV. assassinated by Ravaillac, we may
The Moors expelled from Spain, to some foreign
Accession of Gustavus Adolphus, who died on a foreign
EvANGEucAL Union FORMED, many are glad, )
Matthias js Emperor, many are mad. J
Pocahontas marries John Rolfe, by his side she
Michael Romanoff on the Throne of Russia,
New York settled tx the Dutch, at New York they
Napier invents LoggSxlims, he strips off the
The States* Geneml cJf. France meet the last time previous to the
Revolution in 1793, |^on the mask
Fort Orange erected, let it Albany mark
Concini, Marshal d'Ancre assassinated, he . - • sank
Plough introduced into Virginia, necessary almost as • - sdU
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1588
1589
1592
1592
1593
1597
1597
1598
1598
1598
1599
1600
1603
1605
1607
1608
1609
say 1610
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1613
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1613
1614
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1615
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John T. Kirkland, 70. Kryry.
WalterScott, 62. %^mc.
George Cainrinf, 57. Oryup.
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EVGNTS C9ILONOI.OGIZED.
-%
Synod of Port, needed
The Thirty Years' War commenced, not about
Discovery of the circulation of the blood, in - • -
First Colonial Assembly in Virginia, engaged in by
Negroes introduced into Virginia, to
Girls sent to Virginia, to sell
Whom the planters with tobacco buy 150 (pounds apiece)
The Pilgrims land at Plymouth, their liberty to
The Whig and Tory parties formed in England, each
Dutch cruelties at Araboyna,
The first colonists in New Hampshire, - - -
New Jersey settled by the Dutch, let them - ^ •
Accession of Charles L, let him ride on a -
Invention of the Barometer, put it upon the -
Delaware settled by Swedes and Fins, earlier than States
Maine settled by the English, in Maine they
Boston settled, where the inhabitants . - - -
Gustavus Adolphus gains the battle of Leipsic, bear in
The battle of Lutzen, which Gustavus Adolphus dies
Accession of Christianna, difficult to know what she - .
Maryland settled, by some who could not write their
Connecticut settled by some who sufiered for want of
Koger Williams is banished, by those who have might
And settles Khode Island, a State,
But MIGHT has not always its impulse in aioht,
As is proved in Rhode Island of late.
The Pequod War, more savage than • . . .
Harvard University founded, not for the instruction of
The Solemn Covenant, of the Presbyterian - - -
New Haven settled, a place of
Revolution in Portugal, not a - , *
The Long ParUament coavened, commencing its
Montreal founded. The Jesuits go out among the Indians to Christian-
ize them, - . -
Sugar Cane planted in the West Indies to sweeten the Coffee intro-
duced into England, for the - • . • - - - mob
Strafford beheaded, at the demand of the • - - nwb
Rebellion in Ireland, an Jri&h - mob
The Civil War in England, at Edgehill numbers bleed
Sir Isaac Newton born, a philosopher indeed.
The great and. good. Galileo^ is laid beneath the sod -
And only pencil traces remind that Guide trod.
Union of the four New England Colonies, they
Episcopacy abolished, by the Commons who
At Marston Moor, death's prey he seeks,
And dire the vengeance that he wreaks,
Archbishop Laud, beheaded then,
And Hampden killed, (the best of men;)
While the Tartars overrun China.
The battle of Naseby, and the Candian War,
The Fisherman MassaniUo of Naples^
Charles L delivered up by the Scots,
The Cossack War in Poland, . . *
• salt 1618
salt 1618
man 1619 ,
man 1619
. seU 1620
sell 1620
1620
1621
1623
1623
1624
1625
assert
a sect
met
met
- mewl
- Carnal
Camel 1625
abler 1627
sing
- sing
mind
- a?nid
meant
aw^ograph 1034
meal 1635
1636
mild 1637
1638
1630
1630
1631
1632
1632
mice
mice
mist
song
sons
meet
meet
1638
1639
1640
1640
1640
1641
1641
1641
1642
1642
1643
1643
• seeks 1644
2c&sail 1645
sold 1647
sold 1647
sold 1647
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Timothy Alden, 68. Arpasoo.
- Dr. Tobias Smollet, 61 .*% mo.
Th<»iias Gray.
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MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL
The Treaty of Westphalia, peace they - - - -
The Treaty of Munster, independence they - - -
Charles I. of England beheaded, it is
'Twas thus the old Highlander sung.
As to his knee his grandson clung,
Montrose executed.
seek 1648
seek\64S
seen 1649
sung 1650
" A traitor* sold the great Montrose, — O, deed of deathless shame!
I charge thee, boy, if e'er thou meet with one of Assynt's name—
Be it upon the mountain side, or yet within the glen,
Stand he in martial gear, alone, or backed by armed men —
Face him as thou wouldst face the man, who wronged thv sire's renown j
Remember of what blood thou art, and strike the caitiff down!
He mounted up the gibbet high, and turned him to the crowd,
And to the people standing round, thus calmly spoke aloud —
' For truth and right, 'gainst treason's might, this hand has always striven,
Ye raise it up a witness still, in eye of earth and heaven.
Then nail my head on yonder tower — give every town a limb —
And God who made shall gather them ; — I go from you to him.
Yet sought I not in battle-field, a wreath of such renown,
Nor dared I hope, my dying day, to win the martyr's crown.*
Some heard in sorrow, some in pride, one only dared to smile,
'T was he who sold his king for gold — that master-fiend Argyle ! "
A Dutch colony settles the Cape of Good Hope, as - - such
North Carolina settled, but not - - - - much
Battle of Worcester, Cromwell defeats the Scots and breaks their mug
War between England and Holland, they get into
The Long Parliament dissolved, it ceases to
Christianna abdicates the throne of Sweden, the
Conquest of Jamaica, through the aid of
Quakers persecuted in Massachusetts ty law, - - •
Charles X. conquers John Casmir, of Poland, who thought to
Dunkirk taken from the Spanialrds, who lose more than
Death of Oliver Cromwell, lay his head on - - -
Pocket watches invented^ which may be put in -
Aurengzebe dethrones his father, without ...
The Peace of the Pyrenees, a wedding, not a wwran, -
Restoration of Charles 11, who might have made a good
New York taken from the Dutch, was it wrong? It seems
The Great Plague in London, we will call it death's -
The Great Fire in London, perhaps cooked many a
Battle of Solbay, neither party - - . • .
The two De Witts murdered by their countrymen, which of them sued?
King Philip's War in New England, stains the ... soil
Rebellion of Bacon, in Virginia, who for a commission - sues
Episcopacy established in Scotland, producing a war of extermina-
tion, shedding blood enough to make the ground - - moist
William Penn settles Pennsylvania, without - - - blood
Lord Russell and Algernon Sidney put to death, the tyrant to suit
Sobieski defeats theTurks under the walls of Vienna, to
James H. taught in a Catholic school. ....
Edict of Nantes revoked, piaking France a Catholic
League of Augsburg, (H. ^n. S. against France,) a time of
The Newtonian philosophy promulgated, it began to
a muss
ghat
mUsk
sulphur
law^
soa/r
a muff
a muff
a nvuff
amaan
moan
sawyer
so
msavl
sau^^%e
sued
suit
school
school
gloom
bloom
1650
1650
1651
1652
1653
1654
1655
1656
1657
1658
1658
1658
1659
1659
1660
1664
1665
1666
1672
1672
1675
1676
1679
1682
1683
1683
1685
1685
1686
, , ,. „ „ 1686
The Revolution. The people^i^ny the divine right of Kings, to moods 1688
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EVENTS GHRONOLOOIZSD.
Accession of William and Mary, who became soy^eigns - soon 1689
Peter the Great Czar of Russia, soon 1689
Schenectady burnt by the Indians, and the inhabitants - Jly^ 1690
The battle of Boyne, in which the Irish are defeated, and - Jit/ 1690
The French fleet defeats the English, and at them make tnouths 1691 <;
The battle of La Hogue, the English victorious, and# • mount 1692
The Salem Witchcraft, the scafl[bld they - • • - mmmt 1692
Massacre of Glencoe in Scotland, savage as a - wild-cat 1693
Rice introduced from Africa into the smdk^ (South Carolina) 1695
The Peace of Ryswick, affected the price of - - - soup 1697
Peter the Great engages in ship-building, give him - - sowp 1697
Augustas II., king of Poland, give him ^ • •; • sowp \^^1
Accession of Charles XII, of Sweden, let him live upon - - sowp 1697
Piracies of Kid, the scaffold he - • . - - - mounts 1698
Louisiana settled, the first grain sown 1699
Battle of Narva, Peter defeated, but resolved again to - ^ try^ 1700
The Act of Succession in Great Britain, - - - - try"^ 1700
Prussia erected into a kingdom, inscribe its name on the toanliier* 1701
Accession of Queen Anne, give, her 18 children COflbe made of rye 1702
Gibraltar taken by the Engfish, a rock for a - - - table 1703
The first newspaper in North America, tie around the neck of the fox 1704
Accession of Joseph I, of Germany, he takes the helm of the Yessel 1705
Invasion of Carolina by the Spaniards, jsaw their heads oflT • 1706
English attempt to take Port Royal, for a royal • - ehail* 1707
The battle of Oudenarde, was not fought with - - - canes 1708 ^
The first Printing Press in Connecticut, was not caught in a net 1709
The first Post Office in the Colonies, did it - - - payl 1710
Expedition against .Canada, Sir Hovenden Walker carried the rag 1711
The Indians massacred aiear, 137 whites in North Carolina, a bear 1712
The ruins of Herculaneum discovered, about them - - chat \1V^
The Treaty of Utrecht, - • , .... a chat 1113
The first schooner built at Cape Ann, not without a - - bottle 1714 '
The battle of the Saltcatchers, and Rebellion in Scotland, a path 1115
Mississippi settled by the French, • . - . a pack 1716
New Orleans founded, but its settlers could not raise apples 1717
Death of Charles XIL of Sweden, the .... rash 1713
Death of William Penn, ^ho was not ----- rash 11 IS
Death of Benjamin Church, the rash 11 IS
Ismel Putnam born, - - , rash 1718
The first Presbyterian Church in the U. S., shut up an anaeonda 1719
Tea be^ to be used in New England, put in the - banket 1720
Inoculation for the Small Pox, use the - - handkeirchief 1721
Invention of .Stereotype plates by William Ged,load tixe elephant 1725
Accession of George II, the • Gaper 1727
The Natchez Indians massacre the French, as - .« a pest 1729
The fort at Crown Poii^t erected, to confine - - • - apig 1731
George Washington, James Necker, Richard Henry Lee, land Hugh
White born, of them we . - • - - • - read 1132
Georgia fettled by James Oglethorpe, his slack (116) company cheat 1733
Krouli Khan, king of Persia, - right 1736
Francis of liourraine. Grand Duke of Tuscany, who left it to his child 1737
* Facts between ^701 and 1801 wilL^e associatecTfrequently with symbols^ because we
have elsewhere given the same in a IiEe manner..
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MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL
War between France and England, about
In a boot put the Treaty of Atx La Chapel le,
Restored were the con(|uest8 all parties had made,
Thrown away were the Uves of the thousands who fell,
No matter — the powers that be must be obeyed.
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boot 1748
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New Style adopted, Franklin's experiment with the kite, umbrella 1752
The great earthquake at Lisbon, destroyed many a - • Kutk 1755
The Seven Years* War begins, call it a w^r - - clmm 1756
Quebec taken. The battle of Minden, from Which the French run ^759
John Wilkes publishes the " !North Briton,*' a liberty mirror 1 763
Passage of the Stamt) Act, led to an appeal to the - mUf^ket 1765
Dartmouth College founded. Bonaparte born, give them a solk 1769
The lightning rod erected, upon • • - -a pyramid 1770
The first partition of Poland, write with a - - - ]>eiicil 1772
The battle of Bunker's Hill, let loose the - - - puiua 1775
Declaration of Independence declared, which England - rues 1776
Henry Clay- bom, and the surrender of Burgoyne, put into the desk 1777
The treason of Arnold, write in a - - - - - book 1780
Independence of the U. S. acknowledged, to have taken - roGt 1783
Federal Constitution adopted, by the States while - - - p^or Yt^l
The States General of France meet, and devolution take^ its toots 1789
Discovery of Galvanism, and the first Railroad established in Eng-
land, on which to run - • - • • - round 1791
The reign of Terror in France, they let loose the - triMCat 1793
Vaccination introduced, vaccinate the - • - - geose 1798'
General Washington died, one of death's - * routs 1799
Battles of Marengo and Hohenlinden, would a - - squash try 1800
Union of England and Ireland, the last like d plucked - cygnei 1801
Paul I. assassinated, like a young - - • - - cygnet 1801
Purchase of Louisiana, the treaty signed on the -' - fabl6'* 1S03
Napoleon crowned Emperor of France, crown him wJth cypress 1804
Alexatiili^r Hamilton killed by Aaron Burr, cover him with cypress 1804
Battles of Austerlit:^ and Trafalnfar, in latter tliey used the VCS^SCl^ 180^
Battle of Jena, mii^lu liavc led Napoleon to play on the - cyrhihdW 1806
Joseph BDuaparte kin K of Naples, give him the - - cymhdll 1606
Battle of Friedland and Treaty of Tilsit, Napoleon take the eliairi" 1807
Aaron Burr tried for conspiracy, he takes the criminaFs cliail* 1807
The kin£r of Portngal L^raii^ratcs to Brazil, & removes his state chair 1807 '
EaMle of Corrnnua- English defeated, tlie French - can6 you 1809
cart 1810
^ '. call 1810
- caU 1810
^eoh 1«11
jgrant 1812
agrdrit 1812
camp 18!3
- sharp I6l4
d shark 1815
a sham 1816
ashdm 1816
cash 1818
can 1819.
Nu]u>k"0^ marfif^s Maria Louisa, he takes her into his
Holland annexed to France, and obeys the same
Ffccvohition in Carraccas, for a republic ihey - . -
Burning of ihe Richmond Theatre^ to which many went in
Camjiaign in Kussia, a war ---*--
The United States declare war against Great Britain, -
The battles of Lulzen, Bautzen, and Leipsic, a war -
Napoleon abdicates, lie found the AllieB too - - -
The Hundred Days, battle of Waterloo, which call
A National Bank of the United Slates formed,
American Colonization Society formed, . - . .
The Holy AliiancCj or Congress of Sovereigns, take care of the
The fUst steam ship crosses the Atlantic, quici as it
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The Manchester riots — 400 persons xnp^acred, as they - can 1819
Spain cedes Florida to the United States, the best she - - can 1819
Accession of George IV., King of England, give him the - - key 1820
Mexico, Gautemfila, aa4 Pent decilared independent, they^ as<?e7ii 1821
Death of Napoleon at St. Helena, his areams at an - ' - ' end 1821
Massacre of Scio — 70,000 killed and prisoners, through Turkish eiicess 1822
Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico, abdicate*, his name they cease to etch 1823
Death of Lord Byroa at Missolonghi, who mourned his - dog 1824
Death of John Adams and Thomas Jeflerson, pe^ice to their ashes 1826
Catholic Relief Bill passes the British Parliamont; England not shaken 1829
Accession of William IV., who becomes - • - aking \^oO
Revolution in France, Charles X. ceases to be - - - a king 1830
Revolution in Poland attempted, where many they - - kUl 1830
The Reform Bilipfisses' the British Parliament, but? gave 'no bread 1832
Slavery abolishetl in t,hd British polcniieg, a deqdglonoxis and -. great 1833
Agitation of the Slave" (Question in the United States, grows great 1833
The Florida War begins, in which many loose their - breath 1835
Texas declares its independence, and begins to - - kick 1836
Accession of Victoria, hers a firm grip 1837
Revolt in Canada, where troubles break 1838
Napoleon re-interred in Paris, he was always ... short 1840
The Sub-Treasury Law passed, its life doomed to be - short 1840
Victoria married, and continues short 1840
Contest in Rhode Island, about a constitutional . . * ci^ 184 1
T. W. Dorr elected Governor under the people's constitution, agreed 1842
The " Free Church of Scotland," may meet in - - a cot 1843
The Philadelphia Riots, supplied more than one - - co/'fin 1844
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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Name.
Geo. Washington^
John Adams,
Thomas Jefferson^
Janies Madison^
James Monroe^
J. Q. Adams,
\ Andrew Jackson,
'Martin Van Buren
IW. H. Harrison,
\james K Polk,
George, Washing... the bntiuerii' roots,
Let Adams upon the hyena water ;?oMr,
Let JeiTerson at the table write *' Bryaut"
James' Mad ... fbx bit you^ -
Give James the Mon ... on the vesi^l the cup,
Let John Quincy with his wi w make us s/iehQt
Let Jack ... sit on the cknir where he ^€Wt
A CRtie let Martin Van Bnreii gnp^
Harrison caught in his net « cob.
Let Azo make a Pork ,., broth
1789
1797
1801
1^9
1817
1S25
1929
1H37
1&41
1845
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Slave-holding ( May have the banner, table, fox, TeMCl, > g
Presidents ( chair, and girl A SO, i
Presidents J ^^^ ^^^® *^^ hyena, saw, cane, and net^ 4
Non slave-hold-
ing
Note. Presidents in italic, Blave-holdeffl.
used to remind us <xf the name.
Words marked thus », are
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I77r Com. HrII, 68. Hnlmbo.
Bobert Adrian, 68. JLroiiwioo.^
Alexander Icleod^ ^8. Larotloak.
Lady Hester Stanhope, 64. Soilio*
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PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS
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UNITED STATES,
CLASSIFIED.
Ckm. Town or CSfy.
New Yoric,
Philadelphia,
Baltimore,
New Orleans,
Boston,
Cincinnati,
Brooklyn,
Albany,
Charleston,
Washington,
Providence,
Louisville,
Pittsburg,
Lowell,
Rochester,
Richmond,
Troy,
Buffalo,
Newark,
St. Louis,
Portland,
•Salem,
New Haven,
Utica,
New Bedford,
Mobile,
Charlestown,
Savannah,
Petersburg,
Salina,
Springfield,
Norfolk,
Fishkill,
Alleghany,
Po'keepsie,
N.Y.
Pa.
Md.
La.
Mass.
O.
N.Y.
N.Y.
S. C.
D.C.
R.L
Ky.
Pa.
Mass.,
N.Y.
Va.
NY.
N.Y.
N.J,
Mo.
Me
Mass.
Ct.
N.Y,
Mass.
AL
Mass.
Geo.
Va.
NY.
Mass.
Va.
N.Y.
Pa.
N.Y.
For the New ...♦ baHoer will the isle pay^
Let the hyeua Phil ... himsi^ir on a herb mound, -
Around the Bal ... table aye taJk,
To see N. 0. fox all haste,
In the Boston vesMsl send out ice, ^
Cincinnatus ... saw and heard the/oe speak, -
Brooklyn's chair my toe hit, - - - -
Give me that Albany cane, I am tired,
Charles ... in a net caught his enemy,
Azo Washing... yet J <ce,
A barrel of Provender ... ye spare.
Put Louis'... bear in the end hall, - - . .
Lift the irig out of the Pit ... with dm bark,
All about the bottle "LQweU knows, . . ^
Say to the Rochester goat * ye iany,^
Do the Ric'h ... the wheel ply but—? -
Troy's affiles from the boi^h eat, - - -
Playing upon the guitar is the Buffallo good atf -
In a New ark keep the anaconda ape dry.
Let St, Louis call his basket a glory, -
Wave the handkerchief to the Port ... lest Xh^ark dash,
At the camel Sale ... ark troops,
New Haven's diadem go touch, • • •
Call XJtica's dog Gershe,
A New Bed ... for the elephant and a herry, -
Let an emmet Mob ... ah eel and — be sued.
Did the bee sting Charles, the act proof?
Save Anna's broom end harp, ....
Peter's turkey and whim, ....
S^Una's jug anrf«praf,
Did the eagle Spring ... upon a fleece all wool,
Jethjo came frcin Norfolk all new»t " - -
The Pish ... in the pail all fear, - , • ■ -
Over the Allegfhany with tongs aU troths,
Poh...! ii^mble over a 2>EAfn, (see Rule VI)
Fopk IMO
312,710
228,691
102,313
102,192
93,382
46,338
36,233
33,722
29,260
23,364
23,172
21,210
21,115
20,796
20,100
20,153
19,333
18,213
17,290
16,470
15,218
15,083
14,390
12,782
12,770
12,072
11,484
11,214
11,136
11,013
10,985
10,935
10^37
10^087
10,006
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James Fer^ruson. David Hume, 65. i% mtL
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37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
5S
59
60
61
62
03
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
Town or City,
atau..
Smithfield,
R.L
Hartford,
Ct.
Lynn,
Mass.
Lockport,
N.Y.
Detroit,
Mich.
Roxburv,
Nantucket,
Mass.
Mass.
Newburg,
N.Y.
New Brunswick
N.J.
Bangor,
Mc.
Alexandria,
D.C.
Lancaster,
Pa.
Reading,
Pa.
Cambridge,
Mass.
Wilmington,
Del.
Newport,
R. I.
Portsmouth,
N.H.
Wheeling,
Va.
Taunton,
Mass.
Paterson,
N.J.
Worcester,
Mass.
Norwich,
Ct.
Georgetown,
D. C.
Mt. Pleasant,
N.Y.
Middletown,
Ct.
Frederictown,
Md.
Newburyport,
Mass.
Seneca,
N.Y.
Lexington,
Ky.
Nashville,
Tenn
Schenectady,
N.Y.
Fall River,
Mass.
Warwick,
R. L
Portsmouth
Va.
Dover,
Plattsburg,
N.H.
N.Y.
Augusta,
Geo.
Lynchburg,
Gloucester,
Va.
Mass.
Thomaston,
Me.
Cleveland,
0.
Dayton,
0.
Nashua,
N.H.
Columbus,
0.
Ptarrisburg,
Pa.
Kingston,
N.Y.
Rome,
N.Y.
Hudson,
N.Y.
Auburn,
N.Y.
Canandaigua,
N.Y.
Ithaca,
N.Y.
Marblehead,
Mass.
New London,
Ct.
CatskiU,
N.Y.
Augusta,
Me.
Plymouth,
Mass.
Andover,
Mass.
Steuben ville,
0.
Hagarstown,
Bath,
Md,
Me.
Sviacuse,
N.Y.
Williamsburg,
N.Y.
Middleboro',
Mass.
Gardiner,
Me.
Watertown,
N.Y.
CUiBti/icatioiu
The image at Smithfield you left^
Hartford's trampet needs no gtue^ •
Lynn's harp you taught^ ....
Lock ... up the squirrel and let the (wis dUj-
Put stays upon the oyster to Destroy ... it.
Over the Rocks ... with the scarf you troopy
Over Nantucket's fence you tramp^ -
Cut off a New ... bug's head wijlh the scissors, show i7.
The quaiPs New „. shoe see, , - - -
Bang ... the »lcallH with a shoe do, '
Will the ostrich to Alexandria come?
A Lank ... frog on the desert of Co6i, -
Reading about a boot he let his cane/(t/!.
On the ... bridge feed coffee to the corpse^
All (awl) Wilmington's /roop«6&«€, -
The New ... lantero the troops eat, - -
Give the ambrella to the ... mouth's true cook^
The lion Wheeling upon one of the true coons,
Taunted . . with a lamp and raw ee/, - •
Paterson's loaf and oil out, . . - -
With the urn a Worse ... chair scour^
Norwich with the oar makes a true din,
Let George ... put on his cloak from Ri^a,'
Let the crow against the Mount ... impinge, -
I«t Middling ... tobacco reply, ...
Let Frederic with a moth run a race, -
The Newburyport spectacles chase,
Let Seneca with the mirror mount the pyrt,
The Lexington glove take, the s^uaw would,
See Nash... into the musket blowing,
Put the mask upon the ...neck... of a6^u«^y,
Let the spool Fall«. into a River... of btue ink.
Let the Moor make War ... with a blue hoe.
Sit upon the sofa with your ... mouth sore, -
Let the Dove ... upon the pyramid sing a solo,
The parrot sat in a Piatt ... on a globe,
Augusta's pencil see ye, ^
Lynch ... the peaches they are minej
The Glossy... pony ran a rmU, -
The puma^ Thomas ,., and the squaw hddt
Cleave ... the cat of Syria,
In the Day... desk put my atcl.
It is a Nashua lark upon my oaik,
Columbus and my horn ar« my aidtt
Harry's ... book dost thoa fcTww ?
For a cage will ihe King's oak do ?
Has the cricket become ofRwm thy?
Let Lau^a glean the theaves beside the Hudson ^
The com Auburn luft,
Canandaigua the cup uted, -
Ithaca brush us aU, ...
A Marble ... cradle the He nte,
Calico New ... tnUh slow, * - .
With the shawl take the Cat's ,.. Ufe,
The August Uagm of the peacockpt
The Plymouth ring tried the^
Andover^s telescope the true, -
Stew ... a wildcat in the tree^
Put Hagar's leaf in the lake, -
Put the owl in a BatA bog. -
A curious... trap forn lady
For "William's ... Vfig cjy oift,
Put the goose in the iCdrlle ... of % shoe^
Give the Gardiner'i hat thy aidi -
A Watery ... potato thy dtu^
Pop. 184t
9,527
9,467
9,366
9,125
9,106
9,087
9,013
8,933
8,664
8,624
8,463
8,413
8,410
8,402
8,367
8,333
7,883
7,885
7,645
7,593
7,497
7,239
7,311
7,302
7,220
7,182
7,162
7,072
6,997
6,930
6,790
6,737
6,726
6,472
6,454
6,412
6^02
e,3r>'5
6,<J74
6,055 I
6,0.tS '
5,970
5,824
5,6SD
5.071
5v656
5,623
5,610
5,577
5,519
5,343
5,317
5,262
5,307
5,204
54 sa
5,Ut
5,120
G,0y3
5^42
5,027
1777 Heary Oar, Apiii 12.
Thomai CampBell, 77. Oapme. |
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CITIES IN THE ORDEE OF THEIE POPULATION.
I
I
f
o
o
o
CUM.
Kame.
Country.
PopAlaUon.
Association.
1
Pekin,
China,
2,000,000
Peak ye. >
2
London,
England, • . • • .
1,900,000
London, a styx.
3
Jedo,
Japan,
1,300,000
Jed's arm try.
4
Paris,
France,
1,161,000
Pair a hug.
5
Canton,
China,
900,000
Cant you try.
6
Constantinople,
Turkey,
510,000
Constant-Zay.
7
Calcutta,
Hindostan,
500,000
Ca lyx.
8
Surat,
** ....
495,000
A Surat ybtcZ.
9
Nankin,
China,
492,000
A keen one.
10
St. Petersburg,.
Russia,
470,000
St. Peter airy.
11
Moscow,
«
885,000
A cow's tooth.
12
Manchester, . •
Englandf
880,000
Icy Man.
18
New York, . .
United States,.
366,000
New toes. (1845.)
14
Madras,
Hindostan, • • •
360,000
Mad ivy.
16
Naples,
Sicily,
336,000
Naples team.
16
Cairo,
Egypt,
385,000
CsLTlHe.
17
Vienna,
Austria,
380,000
Let the Vine teach
18
Patna, '-
Hindostan,
820,000
Tea Pat.
19
Delhi,
u
815,000
A high spark,
rax Me?
20
Meaco, '
Japan,
810,000
2X
Lucknow, . • • .
Hindostan, • • • '
800,000
Luck / try.
22
Glasgow,
Scotland,
259,000
Glass hoard:
23
Lisbon,
Portugal,
250,000
Lizzy hurt.
Double the dog.
24
Dublin,
Ireland,
241,000
-,25
Berlin,
Prussia,
240,000
BerHn doll.
26
Philadelphia, •
United States,.
229,000
Phil the den. !
27
Liverpool, • • • •
England,
223,000
I'he Liver hers. ^
28
Bombay,
Hindostan,' •• •
220,000
Bombay delL
29
Ispahan,*
Persia,
210,000
Is Pa hsai-day f
30
Aflosterdam, • •
HoUand,
202,000
Eye the dam.
Lions ye try.
31
Lj^oas,
France,
200,000
32
Birnungham, • .
England,
190,000
Any ham?
33
Milan, *. .
Austria,
185,000
My booth.
84
Laiffong,
Cashmere, * • • •
Farther lodia,.
180,000
The ashy gong.
35
Hindostan,
175,000
Ciwh a psie.
36
Madrid, .
Spain,
172,000
A mad red ape.
37
^larseilles, • • »
"France,
176,000
Mars mary.
88
Mexico,
Mexico,
162,000
Ja Mexico alfle f .
39
Aleppo,
Turkey, .»•...
156,000
All gum. .
40
Rio .Janeiro, • •
Brazil,
152,000
Rioofe.
41
Hamburg, • • • •
PreeGer.Cities,
151,000
Huxti-&u^.
42
Ava, • •
Fari^er India,'
150,000
An Ava hM.
43
Dacca,
Hindofetan,
160,000
Buy Dacca.
44
Rome,
Italy,.-
149,000
Gain rum.
4o
Warsaw,
Russia,.. *..••
1 142,000
The Wajv^od.
Note. — As the population of many t)f the cities of this list are estimated, absolute aecoracy
cannot be expected. Only the thousands ^e given in the association, and a word which still re-
minds us orthe name is connected with it in Ipaost instances*
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WffliattiPm,70.iVij^
Voltajre, 84. Vamoe9>
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46
47
48
49
50
61
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
6S
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
Turin,
Palermo, ♦ • • •
Edinbui^,
Havanna,
Bristol,
St. Salvador,. <
Barcelona, • ' •
Copenhagen, •
Prague,
Smyrna,
Tunis, . . i . . . .
Genoa, ......
Cork,
Damascus, • • • •
Baltimore, • • • •
New Orleans, •
Fez,
Candahar,
Peshwar, • • . . .
Florence,
Venice,
Bordeaux, • • • -
Munich, . . . . .
Boston,
Rouen,
Seville,
Breslaw,
Adrianople, • •
Stockholm, • • •
Oporto,
Ghent,
Buenos Ayres,
Bucharest, • • •
Morocco,
Leghorn, . • . . .
Nantz,
Pueblo, .-•...
Brussels, :
Konigsberg,* • <
Astrachan,- • • •
Herat,
Algiers,
Reshd,
Quito,
Bologna,
Antwerp,
^ga,
Dresden,
Valencia,
Cologne, • • • •
Gaudalaxara,
Malaga^ •••...
Botterdam, • • '
Dantzic,
PerA,
Sardinia, ....
140,000
Sicihr,. ...:...
Scotland,
140,000
139,000
West Indies, • .
129,000
England,
128,000
Brazil,
127,000
Spain,
126,000
Denmark, • . • .
124,000
Austria,
123,000
Turkey,
122,000
Barbary States,
120,000
Sardinia,
116,000
Ireland,
115,000
Turkey,
111,000
United States,.
103,000
*t
102,000
Barbary States,
100,000
Africa,
100,000
((
99,000
Tuscany,
98,000
Austria,
97,000
France,
96,000
Bavaria,
95,000
United States,-
93,000
France,
92,000
Spain,
91,000
Prussia,
90,000
Turkey,
89,000
Sweden,
84,000
Portugal,
83,000
Belgium,
82,000
South America,
80,000
Turkey,
80,000
Barbary States,
79,000
Tuscany,
77,000
France,
76,000
Mexico,
75,000
Belgium,
74,000
Prussia, •
73,000
Russia,
72,000
Africa,
71,000
Barbary States,
70,000
Persia,
70/)00
Equador,
Italy,
70,000
69/)00
Belgium,
68,000
Russia,
67,000
Saxony, ......
66,000
Spain,
. 66,000
Prussia,
66,000
Mexico,
66^000
Spain,
HoUand,
66,000
64,000
Prussia, ......
63,000
Austria,
62,000
Turn Jo^
Pale b^y.
An Eden bean,
Havanna 66«<r
A bristle belt.
The Saint begs salte.
A bare genu
Cope ado.
Get the Plague.
Smear the bed.
Tune the bell.
Ge back.
Cork barki
A Damask bag.
Why I more.
N. O. axe.
Give Fez a try.
Candy a try.
A fresh war now.^
Woo Fbrence.
Our Venice.
A board drew.
A Munich yotUh.
A ton of trouL
We ruin.
Civil owls.
Best law young.
A dry pole grow f
A corn stack home.
Oporto troops.
A she Gent.
Shy airs.
Shy buck at rest
A Morocco horn.
Put the Leg in rue.
None raw.
Pure oU.
Bristles on the knee.
Cunning bug in tipea.
A striking penciL
A he rat Pa.
Take all the cars^
and the rest of>pyTfeunld.
a Musqueto for a)
A Bologna sow.
An Antwerp moor.
Blue Rigging.
Dress a '\
Xf^i. Imaak.
Colonelma f "**~"
Gaudy }
Maul with^ awl.
See the It^tten dam.
A Dancing sea.
A Vepraunt.
1779 David Oarricki
Josefi Story, 66: Soinsaw.
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Iiaae C. Bates, 66. Botmaw,
Stephen Decalor.
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Popnlation of United States in
Claaaj StatCB
1790
1800 I 1810 I 1820 I 1830
1840
13 Maine
oo' New
•*'* Hampshire
21 , Vermont
- Massachu-
**| setts
« . ' Rhode Is-
^*| land
^^ ' Connecti-
'^"l cut
Pennsylva-
nia.
N. Caro-
lina
S. Caro-
lina
96,540
woe long
141,899
bond shoivn
85,416
brief as
378,716
I poor am
69,110
sowid all
238,144
dish bond
340,120
toll bell
184,139
JfOCobin
434,372
O I fire
59,096
Vnf dran
319,729
span rest
748,310
cheek tax
393,751
tongh rub
249,073
host true I
82,549
she lost
rich rue
35,791
tie round
151,719
bu^ ran
183,762
a ship aunt
154,466
ark foes
423,245
aid I hail
69,122
sounded
251,002
hie all ye
586,756
loom chum
211,949
Imnd stain
602,366
my 2 toes
64,275
said oil
341,549
^ job lost
'880,200
coo ye try
j 14,093
j ask trout
478,103
or shall I
345,592
jail crowd
162,102
able axe
220,956
dell drum
105,602
all law ye
( 45,366
I eel toes
I 8,851
j cool I
4,875
j broil
\
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228,7(K
thresh rye
214,300
harp I try
217,713
plank rat.
472,040
ope Troy
77,031
rue sprig
262,042
ye sell aid
959,049
nun train
245,555
doth lurk
810,090
call young
nfil5
re soil
380,546
Icy thorn
974,622
our foe he
24,023
do yet
555,500
loath thE
415,115
bug ark
252,433
diedfit
406,511
Troys land
261,729
daub chest
230,759
hUlrun
40,352
ox tied
24,520
do they
( 12,282
{ bent she
76,556
i ram thus
20,842
exceed
4,762
or me
298,335
ye woo I tie
I 244,162
yefogmt
! 235,765
ye tie Paul
523,286
let doom
83,059
kill thou
275,202
ye oil dye
1,372,813
arm pelt arm
277,572
hue pure
1,049,457
a train field
72,749
re^ post
407,350
true ivy
1,065,379
a yawl I row
33,039
leach in
638,829
bleak grew
502,741
lye rob
340,987
joy droop
564,317
law tar
422,813
fed cat
581,434
oak go to
75,447
pie fair
147,175
beer boU
55,^11
truth hag
153,407
a leaf true
( 127,900
I a hue Styx
66^586
saw loom
8,806
Scows
( 14,273
f ask doit
^
399,457
501,793
tunmfield
cry a rout
269,328
284,575
dawn spelt
hoof loins
280,652
291,948
ye shy mud
phw a week
610,410
737,699
may fall
pink blown
97,199
108,830
our gourd
all coo each
297,675
309,979
how raw pie
each now r«w
1,919,132
2yA2^,9'4'4
a wan girl
deed showed
320,825
373,306
I excel
Icheat Zoe
1,348,233
1,724,033
a jolt hit
Ardo treat
1^,U5
78,086
raw pork
true shy shoe
447,040
469,232
fair Troy
fawn dead
1,211,406
1,239,797
bend boys
Adinpour
39,833
43,712
in great
fear be
737,987
753,419
pink droop
pump fast
551,186
594,399
oak a booth
thou down
516,822
691,392
cram shed
sound doud
687,917
779,829
moor war
true row grew
681,904
829,210
squaw can tree
grew small
937,905
1,519,468
wild nymph
a vast fault
136,621
375,651
beam send
spoU mug
343,033
685,866
I fix it
school shoes
157,445
476,182
bunk faU
air make
215,529
352,411
harkUim
toad fag
309,526
390,756
/ trom them
Unydium
140,457
383,702
boy field
I grip ye
31,639
212,266
sprig glean
had hoes
30,388
97,576
each took
our loins
34,730
544,75
to reach
theefoU
1780 Sir Wm. Black0toiie,57..S^u2>.W. E. Cluiniiing« Oareyme.
' Edward P. LiYinpton; 63. ^ Pkllip P. Barbour, 60. Bareamg.
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1 Egbert may stand on A«^f with a banner EaA-egjand
Ebreakhovr . •
.Betfprca . • •
EshmyBq^uavr •
fow^isqnaw
^n/ryhiell . •
Anewstin . • •
Eflogu . . •
Efleeshy . . .
Enulody . . .
jBnuntraprr<aJ .
JSnoiZoos . . .
Enoinicva
ChxUrapvJi
Himyea .
Histye .
Eoeclsdie
Hots . .
TToesendfl^ . •
WEfrooparm^ro^-
HazytiMuel .
£fadean5ano»4 .
HE*WTtiem/^A3
2 I-et Ethblwolf break the hynna .
3 Ethslbald^s table cMp
4 Ethelbirt aah-my fox*tree . . . •
5 Ethblbbb caught a yettel ...»
6 AI.F11ED broils a saw <
7 Elder Edward you-try the chair . . .
■ 8 Athilstan^s cane and JVejps-paper . ,
9 Led Edmund /fe^ a robber with a net .
10 Edred flees irom Azo ......
11 Edwy's marriage a nt/Z-lity in a barrel
12 Edgar like a bear carried off a ntin .
13 The Martyr Edward " yo»< oil the gig »»
14 Ethilred, the Unready, »aid " <mr-net
and bottle*'
15 The Ironside Ewroin) tied up the goat { rjj,-,,^^
with yam - . . . J ^^^
16 Wheel Cahute's trap (a Danish king) .
17 LAy apples on Harold's great toe . .
18 Put Hardi-cakute in a gnitar . . .
19 Confessor Edward's anaconda eels .
20 Give Harold straw in his basket . .
21 The Conqueror William's stran hand* J
kerchief )
22 TVow the old bachelor William's camel
23 The First hao Hbnrt seized his brother's
diadem ,* ' '
^4 Stephbit may feed his dog on heans .
25 Give a burr to Henry's t\^o elephants
26 The Rich boon of an emmet — Richard I. Eaboonhftrait
27 Im John's bee gourd put the Magna Charta Jagourdanhthy .
28 Give Henry a han and three brooms . HihamuBmu . .
29 The First Long^hanked Edward's iJ<W/e j ^^etieWt/e . •
tarker ) „ '
30 Edward, the tyrant of two jugs . . . EDtyrextratt . .
31 Edward, the fncr of three eagles . . ETterihymu , .
32 Richard Jethro I-rue Satrtteheeat . .
33 Carry Henry's four pails to tonm . . mtnmBXfoe . .
34 Henry's five tengt carry to the /arm . HiB/amyoneot .
35 Six hens fed in k tumbler— Henbt VI. Ho^in% •
36 "The Fourth Edward borri-a murder," ) Ep„,^^^ . .
said the Image ' ^ ^ ,
37 Lay five trumpets on Edward's >?t . Jli^footirybe . .
38 Richard lost his/ot^f harp at Bosworth Ri/i»fye<iirf . .
39 Give that oHfool HBJffRY seven squirrels Hi7B/«>Mio<*< .
40 Lynx Hbhrt may have eif^ht oysters j Hoo/y>ixtoo<nrt*
for six wives ,* 1 r.» /• «.
41 Give Edward six scarfs to raise aloft . hiojimarn . .
42 Mary, with a crutch, may get over the j ^acrvtchXaid , .
fence <•••;•••••) ^ ^ ^^.,
43 Let £;;niABBTB crush with the Bcissors . i.cnwAoddWofP'— ^
44 Ably-I Jambs catdi a quail .... Jasy£ae%%oak .
45 Charles was one of the first c^amd skulls CanUthoorb . .
46 I take as'-my ostrich the Second Charles Cessydietruth .
47 The Second Jambs sent his frog to tchool J^schoolosue . .
48 William's boots soon ruled England . Wisoon&rmthi .
49 Give Queeii Abnb's 18 children rye ooflee Jry^beon . . .
50 George may put his awl in a chaf-'mg dish Ga^go9itmblu$ .
51 Gborgb with the lantern the Gyaper . GaperetArue, «
f2 Give Gborgs three nmbrellas, that he j QHdmueto^skelZ
visit hi8 amy ( ^
wr* » ^ ^ '
may visit
53 GftffB»% has ^e key to the four lions . Goodybyvioo
A4 William's booty is four lamps . . . l^odoo/ytmers
55 Victoria holds a ^;?upon the loaf . Vagrip . .
tZ3r Flgiirai >>iQ«l t« th* lOMmnOft N«Mt) veprMent tht ^^
827
838
857
860
866
871
900
925
941
946
955
959
975
979
1016
1017
1036
1039
1041
1066
1066
1087
1100
1135
1154
1189
1199
1216
1272
1307
1327
1377
1399
1413
1422
1461
1483
1483
1485
1509
1547
1553
1558
1603
1625
1660
1685
1689
1702
1714
1727
1760
1830
1837
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11
19
3
6
6
29
25
16
5
10
4
17
4
38
1
19
3
2
25
3m
21
13
35
19
35
10
18
56
35.
20
50
22
13
9
22
3m
2
24
6
5
44
22
24
25
4
13
12
13
33
59
10
bom
20
32
16
51
60
43
67
49
55
43
50
65
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43
65
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46
33
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41
12
42
52
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15
42
69
58
48
55
67
52
49
67
77
82
68
72
1819
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1781.
Sir Fnuds Chantrey; 60. Carca my. Lord Hawke.
Col. Lcdyard massacred at Fort Griswold with the garrison.
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BIETHS AND DEATHS OF DISTINGUISHED MEN ;
IN THE
EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES.
' Distiogoished in research of Tarious kinds,
A list of mighty and of noble minds.'
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1708.
1809.
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1711.
1712.
17*18.
1714.
1715.
1716.
1717.
1718.
I7ld.
John Dryden, 70.* Diffry.
Gilbert Wakefield, Sept. 9.
Dr^ John Moore, Feb. 26.
Dr. Darwin, April 28.
Dr. John Wallis, 87. Was coi.
0. Frederick Handel, 56. Hytlaw.
Aleicahder Hamilton, July 6.
John Locke, 72. lAdre.
Dr. William Pal^y, May 25.
Lord ^lelspn UUed, Oct 21.
Benjamin Franklin, 84. Frm co,
Henry Fielding, 48. Fys oc.
Vauban, 74.- Vit ro,
Stephen Hopkins, 78. Har true poo.
William Pitt, 70. Py^;?^,
Thomas Holcroft, March 23.
Bielby Portins, May 14.
Schill HZZ6(f, May 31.
Richard Porson, 1810.
Mr. Windham, June 4.
Boileau Despreaux, 75. iHm oil
David Hnme, 65. Ba^ awl.
J* IX Cassini, 87. Camel cot,
g[r. Percival shot, May 11.
arlo Maratti, 88. Mamelcoo,
Capt^ Lawrence Uikd, June 1.
Gilbeil Bnmet, 7hSaitpa,
Jean lac^nes Ronssean, 64. JRafsee^
Malebranch.
Robert Fulton, 50, 1815.
Gronovius, 71; Gail pa.
David Irainerd, 80^ Bos tW^.
Bishop Lloyd, 90. Lemy.
Timothy Dwight, 65. 1817.
Benjamin Churph.
Israd Putnam, 72. Pacn.
Joseph Addison, 47. Ape old.
Professor Plajrfiiir, July 20.
WiUiam Drake, May 13.
MrSirH. Chapone^ Dec. 25.
Rev. Alex. Geddes, F^b. 26.
Dr. Gamett, June 28.
Bossnet, 78. JBespoo.
Marquis CornwalUSy 6?. Oct. 5.
Peter Bayle, 59. Bold vow.
William Pitt, 48. Jan. 28.
Dr. Thomas Reed, 87. Bppoor.
Com. Hdw. Preble, 46. Aug. 25.
Charles Von Linnaeus, 7a Lykpy.
Fisher Ames, 50. July 4.
Sir John Moore, Jan. 16.
Lord CollingWOOd, March 7.
Princess Amelia, Nov. 2.
Henry Dodwell, Dogpy.
Richard Cumberland, May 7.
John Home Tooke, March 19.
Gen. Brock hilUd^ Oct. 13.
Gen. Pike MUedy April 27.
fleorge WhitefieM.
Com. Downie MUedy Sept. 11.
Fenelon, 64. Fbals see.
David Ramsay, 66* 1815.
Leibnitz, 70. Lofpy. . [July 7.
Richard Brhisley Sheridan,
Madame de Stael, July 15.
Princess Charlotte, Nov. 6.
WiUiam Penn.
Charles XII, 88.
Rev. John FlamStetfd,73.jF^ca.
John Wolcot, Jan. ;i4.
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* The deaths are printed \n full face typej the births in light fa/ce. Thk day of tile month
added indicales the present century. Dig ry r^resents the 'date of his bhr& 1^1, and his a^ 70,
and is termed a Mnmomc name*
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• Lord Eaimes, 86. Kows shoe. Metastasio, 84 MmJi co. , *^"
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1730.
1731.
1732.
1733.
1734.
1735.
1736.
1837.
1738.
1739.
1740.
1741.
1842.
1743.
1744.
1745.
1746.
Heinfltns, 79. Bi>gram. .
Samnel Hopkins^ 83. Bei/d,
McUthew Prior, 57. Passo up,
Samuel AdamS) 82. Adashe.
Andrew Dacier, 71. Dug pa,
35 Negroes exeaitcd as Conspirators in Charleston, S. C, 1822.
Madam Daoier, 69. Dig sow.
Dr. WiUJam Bobertson, 72. Eexpe.
Huet, 91. HeaHna.
John Witber&poon, 73. Wend pea.
sir G. Eneller, 77. Kmes rue.
Lord Erskine, Nov. 17.
Hmnplirey Prideauz, 77. Peer
[rue.
Charlw Townsead, 42. Teiaid.
Dr. S, Parr, March 6.
William Sr Almson, 93. Jares out
Williain CUfford, Esq., Dec. 31. Sir J. S. Raffles, July 5.
Sir Isaac Newton, 85. Needcu, George Canning, Aug. 27
D.of Marlborough, 73.Matdpea.
RiegO executed, Nov. 27.
Lord Byron, April 19.
Mrs. A. L. Barbauld, March 9.
Emperor Alexander, Dec 1.
Bishop R. Heber, April 3y
Dugald Stewart, June ll.
Cotton Mather, 65. Maiu awl
Jolm Stark, 94. SpeU no. •
Cliarles Thompson, 95. Then youth.
Dr. Samuel Clarke, 54. Coil thee.
William Moultrie, 75. Mix oil
William HazUtt, Sept 18.
John Abemethy, April 20.
William Roscoe, June 30.
Riehahi Henry Lee, 62. Lead me,
J. M. Ncckcr, 73. Nariapea.
Francis Marion.
Hannah More, Sept. 7.
Marshal Villars, 82. Viedihe.
lugh Williamson, 84 Wifc^
Robert Morris, 72. Mifpe.
Mrs. Felicia Hemans, May 16.
Fatriek Henry,
James Clinton,
Rev. T. W. Horsfleld, Aug. 26.
Nathaniel Macon, 79. June 29.
Benjamin West,
Mrs. Maclean, L. E. L. Oct. 15.
Dr. R« Bentley, 77. Bushrae.
Samnel WylJys, 84. Wineo.
Nathaniel Greene, 46. Goyfoe. •
Benediet Arnold, 74. Aroyro.
Joseph Warren, 34 War fa to.
Sir Francis Chantrey, Nov. 25.
Robert Mudie, April 29.
Sir Robert Ker Porter, May 4.
Bishop Gibson, 79. Gaufrow.
Smith Thompson, 76. Dec. 18.
Oliver Ellsworth, 63. Erfo mi.
Elbridge Gerry, 70. Gofry.
Sir Robert Walpolei71. 7ra«j7om. Jonathan Swift, 78. Saurpoo.
Beiuamin Rush, 68. Pail moo. Hannah More, 88. Mail coo.
Jona. DiCkillSdn, 60. Doom my. Colin Maclaurin, 48. Moon orh.
David Brainerd, 30. Ba» ing.
Dr. J. Mason Good, Jan. 2.
Dr. Friend, 53. Foil lea.
Horatio Gates, 78. Gareepoo.
Sir Richard Stede.
Oliver Goldsmith, 45. Gold pen ail
William Ellery, 90. Bring fly.
Joseph Inthrop, 90. Laringfly.
John Ewing, 71. Erigpa.
Rev. Robert Hall, Feb. 21.
Georjre Washington, 67. Wria Uue.
Sir Rieh«rd Arkwight, 60. Arid my.
Philip Schnyler, 71. Sitpa.
Dr. Priestley, 71. Pit pa.
Dr. John Abnthnot.
Arthnr St. Clair, 84. CUfco.
Vertot,80. FM/(jy.
John Adams, 91. Apealna.
Prince Engene, 73. Emipea.
Daniel Morgan,
Rev. William Mavor, Dec. 29.
Sir John Boane, Jan. 20.
Boerhaave, 70. Bawkpy.
Joseph Willaid, 66. Wish aught.
Dr. Edmund Halley,79.ira< my
EUas Bondinot, 82. Binshe. \row.
George Clinton, 72. Coypa.
Arthur Lee, 50. Loyly.
Montfancon, 86. Mulshoe.
Charles RoQin, 80. Paub cy.
Sir Charles Bell, AprH 28.
Rev. T. D. Fosbroke, Jan. 1.
Thomas Jefferson, 83. Jot d.
Cardinal Fleury, 90. Furs fly.
Alexander Pope.
Caleb Strong, 75. So/oil
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D^Alembert, 66. I^Arsaw.
Lord Ashburton, Aug. 18.
Leonard Euler. ^ I
Wm. Alexander. 57. Jpe9i«». ^
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1763.
1764.
1765.
1766.
1767.'
1768.
1769.
1770.
1771.
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1773.
Villiam VUte, 89. Wairoon.
B. R. Livingston, 66. Lairsaw.
Pr. Isaac Watts, Waspopo.
Lord President FcA^bes, 62.
James Thompson, 48. Try orb.
Iq Plaee^ March 23. Ixaiab Thomai, 82* IVain she.
David Ramsay, 66. Earn saw. Hirabeau, 42. Mmnmd.
Joiin Trmnboil, 81. Tarly ca. Dr. Middleton, 67. Moot Uue.
Henry Knoit 56. Knull law. Marshal Saxe, 54. Sous lo.
Henry St. John, LordBoUnglroheiwm Madison, 85. Mig eu.
Jolui Lcdyard, 37. Lag trip.
Timotliy Dwiglit, 65* Diedsxi.
Gonverneur Morris.
Alexander Hamilton, 51. Hutla.
James Hillliouse, 79. Hut row.
Henry Fielding, 48. Fysoc.
Henry Peliiam, 60. Pas no my.
Jolm Mardiall, 79. Mdrow.
Montesquieu, 67. MoohUue.
Fontenelle, 100. Foamazy.
Ezra Ripley, dl.Buyna.
Joim Broolts, 73. Budpea.
David Tappan, 5i. Tried la.
William EnsUs, 72. Mips.
Bishop Berkley, 73. Boopea.
Aaron Bnrr, 81. Bulca.
Hannah Adams, 76. Amihroe.
James Cassini, 79. Cos rue raw.
Elijah Paine, 85. Purcu.
James Abererombie, 84. Ampco.
Noah Webster, 85. G. M. de lafayette, 77. Larush rue.
James Monroe, 73. Fisher Ames, 50. Amshly.
G.Frederick Handel,56.i^^Za«7. Oliver Wolcott, 74. WarUywro.
Channcey Goodrich, ^^- Gun us. Thomas Cooper, 80. Oarlowshy.
General Prideaux hilled. George II., 77. Oct. 25.
Samuel Richardson*
Bishop Hoadley, 85. Haescu.
Dr, Bradley, 70. Bowdry.
Roger Griswold, 50. Gaudly.
Abiel Holmes, 74. Hautro.
Rev. Benjamin Wooster, 77. Warsirue.
Hogarth, 67. Hour blue.
Stephen Van Ransalaer, 75. Baufpie.
Eaward Young, 83. Toodd.
Robert Fnllan, 50. Paul thy.
AdmiiNEd Boscawen, 50. Basly.
John Trumbnll, 87. Toesctie.
John Q. Adams, July 11.
Samuel Slater.
Lawrence Sterne.
Eli Whitney, 57. Waulkup.
Napoleon Bonaparte, 52. Bawnle.
Me of Wellington.
John T. Klrkland, 70. Kryry.
WalterScott, 62. %^7we.
lyman law, 71. Larrapa.
Timothy Alden, 68. Arpasoo.
William Wirt, 62. Wire me.
John S. Ravenscroft, 58. Bipeoak.
W. H. Harrison, 68. Harrisoo.
Lord Chesterfield, 79. Oasnorow,
Samuel Davies, 37. Defear.
Dr. Sherloek, 84. Samrmco.
Lord Anson, 62. Atryme.
Edward Nares, 79. Naudrow.
John Dubois, 78. Dawfpoo.
Edward Livingston, 72. Laufre.
Alden Bradford, 78. Awlpoo.
William Dnnlap, 74. Dawlpo.
Dr. John Leiand, 75. Zasnaoil.
Dr. Birch, 61. Bythma.
Andrew Jaekson, 78. Jaurpoo.
Charles Townsend, 42. Tel aid.
Isaae PaAer, 62. PauUme.
Asa Hesser, 68. Maukmoo.
Tecnmsch, 44. Tawnfee.
Dewitt Clinton, 59. Cawnthou.
George Canning, 57. Oryup.
George Whitefleld, 56. Wafus.
Dr. Tobias SmoUet, 61. Say ma.
Thomas Gray.
Ebenezer Porter, 62. Pipe me.
John Randolph, 60. Barrimy.
Com. W. Bamhridge, 60. Baatrimy.
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1786.
1787.
1788.
1789.
1790.
1791.
1792.
1798.
1?94.
1795.
1796.
1797.
1798.
17^9.
1800.
OHtct €k>ld8mith, 45. Ooldj
Uesander Hcleed, 58. LaroUoaL
Lndy Hester Stanhope, 64. Soiko.
Amos Eaton, 66. £pois saw,
David Hume, 65. Hag awl
Tbomas Campbell, 77. Gap rue.
Lorenzo Dow, 57. Dap rue up.
Chas. Von Linnseus, K^.Lyhpy,
J. Jaques Rousseau, (>i.Bafsee.
Isoae C. Bates, 66. jBoinsaw.
Stephen Deeaiur.
Lord CUve, Nov. 22.
Lnden Bmiaparte, 66. Barrosaw,
Com. Hnjl, 68. Hoilmoo.
Robert Adriant 68. Aroilmoo.
James BarbouT) 66. Bois saw,
James Ferguson.
Henry Clay, April 12.
Samuel Foote.
William Pitt, 70. Pykpy.
Voltaire, 84. Vasno co,
David Oarrick.
Joseph Story, 66. Soinsaw.
SirWm.Blackstone,57.JSc^Mp.W."B. Channing, Carei/me.
Sdward P. liTtngston; 63. Philip P. Barboor, 60. Barcamy.
Sir Franeis Chanirey; 60. Carcamy. Lord Hawke.
Col. Ledyard massacred at Fort Griswold with the garrison.
Daniel Webster. Hartin Van Baren.
Lord Kaimes, 86. Kowsshoe. Metastasio, 84. Moubco.
D^Alembert, 66. DArsaw. Leonard Euler.
Lord Ashburton, Aug. 18. Wm. Alexander. 57. Ape$tip.
Dr. Saml. Johnson, 71. Jarspa. Sir George Saville.
James Oglethorpe, 97. Oohour. ionai. Trumbull, 75. 7}ryn(nl
Dr. Matthew Stewart, 68.
Nathaniel Greene, 46. Goyfoe. Nieholas Biddle, 58. Boomush.
Cardinal Tourlone hung on a giUbet fifty feet high.
Sanroel I. Southard, 55. SoorHe. Daniel Oliver, 55, OorUe.
John H. Biee, 54. Roorlo. Bishop Lowth, 77. Lay rue.
lord Byron, 36. Book is. Thomas Sheridan.
Bsek Cowan, 56. Gookus. Charles Stuart.
Com. A. J. Dallas, 55. Doonlie, died at Callao, June 3, 1844.
Ethan Allen, 52. Apear le, born in 1737.
John Tybr. John Howard, 58. HaridoaK
Dr. Adam Smith, 57. Set blue. James Bowdoin, 64. Besso.
Rev. Dr. R. Price, 68. Pet moo, James Manning, 52. MshU.
Herey Bysshe Shelley, drowned in the Mediterranean, 1822.
Gen. John Bnrgovne.. Henry Laurens, 70. Ledpy.
Sir Joshua Re]molds,68.i?d/bt^. St]" R. Arkwright. 60. Arid my.
John Hancock, Heeds truth. Roger Sherman, 72. Sendre.
James Beattie. Wilbnr Fiske« 46. Far out foe.
Edward Gibbon, 57. Gear up. Rich. Henry Lee, 62. Lead me.
WiHiam C» Bryant
James E. Polk.
Eaera Stiles, 68. Sermoo.
Edwaid Everett.
James BosweU.
Louis XVII, in prison.
David Rittenhouse, 65. i^t^aW. Anthony Wayne, 51. Wailla.
James Macpherson,58. MM^o.Dr.Thomas Reid, 87.
Edmund Burke. W. Mason, 72. Melpe.
Horace Walpole. John Wilkes.
Jeremy Belknap, 54. Bofla, Thomas Pennant, 72. Pmjm.
Dr. Richard Farmer. William Wcdes.
Geo. Washington, 67. WndUue.'L. Galvani, 55. GofUe.
William Melmoth. L. Spallanzani.
Edward Rutledge, 50. i?Mwyf^5t. WllUam Cowper, Gib sow.
Dr. Joseidi Black, 73. Beppi, Dr. Hugh Blair.
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James Oglethorpe, %7. ^Oohour Jona. Trumbull, 75. TrpunL
Dr. Matthew Stewart, 68.
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OOVERNOR9, SALARIES, ETC.
GOVERNORS, SENATORS, AND REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
SEVERAL STATES, WITH THEIR SALARIES, TERMS OF
OFFICE, &c.
States.
ChvemoTM in 1845.
Salary.
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Date
^•^
settle-
ment.
Sena-
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Repre-
senta-
tives,^
Fay
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No. of
EUc-
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Maine,
H. J. Anderson,
$1,500
1630
31
151
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9
New Hampshire,
John H. Steele,
1,000
1623
12
250
2,00
6
Vermont,
Massacliusetts,
Rhode Island,
Connecticut,
New York,
WilKam Slade,
George N. Briggs,
James Fenner,
Roger S. Baldwin,
Silas Wright,
750
2.500
400
4,000
2
1724
1620
1636
1635
1613
30
40
31*
21
32
233
356
72?
215
128
1.50
2,T)0
1,50
2,00
3,00
6
12
4
6
36
New Jersey,
Pennsylvania,
StrattoB,
F. R. Shunk,
2,000
4,000
3
3
1625
1682
18^
33
60^
100
3,00
3,00
7
26
Delaware,
Maryland,
Virginia,
Pratt,
James McDowell,
1,333
4,200
3,333
4
3
3
1627
1634
1607
9
212
32
21
78
134
2,50
4,00
4,00
3
North Carolina,
South Carolma,
W. A. Graham,
2,000
3,500
2
2
1650
1670
50
45
120
124
3,00
3,00
11
9
Georgia,
G. W. Crawford,
4,000
2
1733
932-
207
4,00
10
Akibama,
B. Fitz Patrick,
2,500
2
1702
33
100
4,00
9
Mississippi,
Albert G. Brown,
3,000
2
1716
30
91
4,00
6
Louisiana,
Alex. Mouton,
7,500
4
1699
17
60
4,00
6
Arkansas, \
2,000
4
1685
21
66
4.00
3
Tennessee,
Kentucky,
Ohio,
Michigan,
J. C. Jones,
Wm. Owsley,
M. Bartley,
J. S. Barry,
2,000
2,500
1,500
1,500
2
4
2
2
1756
1775
1788
1670
25
38
36
18
75
100
72
54
4,00
3,00
3,00
3,00
13
12
23
5
Indiana,
Jamea WWtcomb,
1,500
3
1690
50
100
3,00
12,
Illinois,
Thomas Ford,
1,500
4
1683
40
91
4,00
9
Missouri.
J. C. Edwards,
2,000
4
1763
18
49
3,00
7
Taritoriis.
Florida,
Wisconsin,
Iowa,
N. P. Talbnage,
J. Chambers,
2,500
2,500
2,500
3
3
3
1565
15
13
13
29
26
26
Note.— The States in Udlk voted for Martin Van Buren, and those in roman for W. E
Harrison, in 1840; those with a line drawn wnder voted for J. K. Polk, and the reioainiDg
ones for H. Clay, m 1844.
1 Limited to that number. 2 One from each coonty, R. I. excepted, which is one fiom each town.
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1 j7gg Nathaniel Greene, 46. Goyfoe. Nlpliolai Biddlf, 58. Bo<mmk
I ' Cardinal Tourlone hung on a gibbet fifty feet high.
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GOVERNOI^S OF THE ^EVEtlAL STATES, THEIK SALARIES, ETC.
THE GOVERNORS OF THE SEVERAL STAtES,
WITH THEIR TERMS, SALARIES, AND POLITICS, TOGETHER WITH THE DATE OF *
THE SETTLEMENT OF THE STATES ; THE SENATORS, REPRESENTATIVES,
AND PAY IN THE STATE LEGISLATURES, MNEMONICALLY
ASSOCIATED IN WHAT SOME WILL THINK A VERY
UNDIGNIFIED MANNER.
Choose^between appearing tandignified, and biktg ignorant.
New York. 1. Banner.
Put that Wright' New../ Polk upon the Governor, as he stands with
each foot upon an oi * holding upon a banner^ a maz^, JTethro,^ the
Senatpr, upon the table lays, the Representative's belt.
Pennsylvania. 2. Hyena.
Pa „} did Governor Skunk give the hyena three oysters' when he
put the Polk on him? I did not see any blood. The pail stood on the
table with a potato in it, Pa ...
Ohio. 3. Table.
"Was Governor Bartley drawn through the Clay of Ohio by a couple of
gloats on a table where he had placed a rook J On the table lay an
inaage and a pencil*
Vii^iNlA. 4. Fox*
Would Governor McDowell's 3 spears^ make a Polk for a Virginia IbXj
or shall we not think it as true ? Jethro holds the fbx whose tail gives
an occasional i0Ai$^«
Tennessee. 5. Vessel.
— See ... Governor Jones hais two baskets in which he carries upon
the vessel Clay and rum.
The elephant, pumft, and hyena are fighting upon deck.
g The name of the governors will usually be givj^nr; the Democmtie ones will be printed
in italicy and the Whigs in reman.
8 To indicate the State, thus : New ..* is nut for New York.
t The word ox represents 40, the hundreds of dollars be receives, and the number indicate
the term, th^s : salary, $4^000, t^rm 2 years.
e The symbol in tlie first sentence of the association stands for the class of the State,
thus: banner 1 indicates that New York is the^irs^ in population.
d Date of settt9o^^tit.l61|. The last fSiot uf> the firs^ seatepoe of each association is the
date of settlement.
1 Symbol for 32, indicating the number of Senators in the Legislature of New York; the
table represents three dollars, the pay of the Senators and Representatives, which is in all
cases the same, and the belt,, 128, the Representatives. The same order may not always be
observed, bat ct ^iil not.be d;ticult to decide what is intended. The symool repvesenting
the leatt fwmberia the pay, the next Uait number the Senators, and the other the Representa-
tives.
2 The 2ttpeart represent $3,333, and also the 3 years for which the Governor is elected.
k«MAn^y
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Biinicl Ofmr, r)5, Oorlie.
Bishop Lowth, 77. Layme.
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GOVERNORS OF THE SEVSRAI« STATES, THEIR SALARIES, ETC.
Kentucky. 6. Saw*
Governor his Keen ... saw and a load of Clay are drawn by four
* elephants which are fed upon Stpple-pie.
The ibx by turns plays the harp and gnaws the potato*
No^TH Carolina. 7. Chair.
Let Governor Graham stand upon the Chair with a basket upon
each arm, one containing Clay, and the other much else.
On the table an awl and a beU,
If you know for what use you may tell.
Massagh¥6btts. 8. Cane* f^<
Does Governor Briggs ride his elephant over a Mass... of Clay with a
cane his prerogative to as^eri ?
What if he ties the ox to the hyena?
Georgia. 9, flfet.
Let Governor Crawford with each foot upon an ox tie up George ... with
a quantity of Clay in a net which was knU» Then let a fox eapei a
wildcat.
Indiana. 10. Azo.
Governor Whitcomb and the Indian ... girl Azo may put a Polk upon
three goats which are hxavmy.
Upon the table lay a potato, sticking an awl into it
South Carox^ina. 11. Barrel.
Upon the barrel stands Governor Hammond's black Caroline ... On
her neck a Polk, and in each hand a tnnibler somewhat ^/wey.
On the table lies an eel making ^ great ado.
Alabama. 12, Bear.
Governor Patrick rode his two elephants to put a Polk upon the
bear which got into his rye.
Feed his fox a potato in a pail.
Maine. 13. Gig^
Says Governor Anderson, ** a goat draws Mine ... gig an4 I sing the
Polka."
" I tie np Mine... hyena and give Mine ... eagle a bug."
Illinois. 14. Bottle*
What an III... Noise... Governor Ford's four goats miake with P<^ks
on ; they do not seem to suit.
Upon the neck of the fox put a rinff and give him an oy8tCUr«
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^'*^' EMk Cowan, 56. Oboiw.
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Charles Stuart.
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Maryland. . 15. ^Aoat. •
Governor Pratt put up tluee lengtius t>f lence fp keep the coat out of
his Clay-LAND ... but it was like writing in sand one's aMto-gmph.
Tie up the fox with the JhaiMlkerclti^f' lest he get at Mary's ...
lark.
Missouri- 16. Wheel.
Give Miss ... Edwards a llfh|^el with a Polk on it» a^d four baskets
of mirrors.
Upon her table place a guitar and €offfee»
Mississippi. 17. Apples.
Give Missis ... Brown two jUgS which she may fill with apples and
pat into her j7ac^ for a Polk.
Put a ring upon the fox's neck and let him drink out of a JHg^*
New Jersey. 18. Guitar.
Give Governor Stratton his three baskets of Clay, and upon the
gnnitar let him mewL v
Lay the guitar and (olbaeco ou the table.
Louisiana. 19. AnaCOUda.
Give Governor Louis ... Mouton four puNias and an anaconda for
a team, and let thera feed in the field first soton.
He mav feed his foX apples and tobacco.
Connecticut. 20. Basket.
Let Governor Baldwin attempt to sail down the Connecticut in a
basket with his barrel of Clay on his shoulder, and remember his an-
cestors suffered for want of meal.
Blindfold the hyena with th^ j^ftudkerehief till it becomes dark,
Vermont. 21. Handkerchief.
Give Governor Slade an oUy^ handkerchief of Clay. Give the
ji eagle a ttmg which you may bui/,^
New Hampshire. 22. Camel.
Let Governor Steele put his New ... Polk upon the ciamel and take
Axo up behind him, as they have met.
Upon Mount Washington have the bear and hyena hung.
Michigan. 23. Ofadeln.
Governor Barrt/s two goats, though Polked, draw him and the dia-
dem, although gluey.
Upon the (able plaoei the guitar and lamp.
I Oi%, 750 dollars, bif jialary.
* Buy^ $1.50 pay per diem.
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2709 CWH* A. J. Dfilllg,'75. IhenUe, died at Callao, June 3, 1844
• Ethan Allen, 52. Apear fo, bom in 1737.
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Rhode Island. 24. Dog.
Set the llogf to catch Governor Fennei^s fta which he had taken by
might.
Can you huy^ an eag^le with a pencil t
ARKANSAS. 25. Elephant*
Put the elei^hant and the governors four bisiskets with his Polk into
the Aek ... and send them to school,
Put a mask on the tbx and a haildkerchier around his neck.
Delaware. 26. Emmet.
The Governor says of the emmet, arm it^ with Clay for three years
it will make amends.
The net and handkerchief do not hurt?
J Florida^ Iowa, and Wisconsin.
The President's three elephaif ts to^carrv the Territory Governors.
The Legislatures are composed of a gig, table, and emmet
1 pay of members $1.50, as in Vermpnt
a Salary of th« Governor $1,333#
« Pay $2.50 per day.
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You are aware, by this^ time, that our object in the foregoiijg pages has
not been to present you facts to treasure up^ $o much as to present princi-
ples by which you can acquire' knowledge. If a person is to become wise
and learned, it is a labor whifsh Jie personally must accomplish. If the ob-
ject sought in using Mnemonics is to rdieve us from labor, it is worse than
useless. If it is to render our meatal labdr more effectvoCy then it may be
productive of immense benefit. In reading, observation, and reflectioup, you
are to apply its principles to retain whatever is useful You sbopld use it
as the astronomer uses the telescope, to increase his field of vision, so that
you may take into one view the cause, relation*, and consequences of
things which otherwise you might never have discovered.
" Lives of all great men remind us, \
We cqitt i^«ik€^ ourtOWnr^ubUme,
And, departing, leave behind us.
Footprints on the sands of time."
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^^^"' Dr. Adam Smith, 5.7. S^thlv4i.
James Bowdoin, 64 £^so.
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MNEMONICS.
PART SECOND.
MNEMONIC DICTIONARY,
CHAPTER I. NUMERICS
MNEMONIC WORDS, SYMBOLS AND ETTMONICS.
In this chapter, the words marked * are termed Natural Symbols, and. r«prer
sent the number qu the first end. Words ex|>iB6sing three figures, are used aa
symbols representing two figures. Words marked with the figure ' express
one thousand more than the number or date Upon the principle of remexnberii^
within a thousand years. The words marked^ a»e Etymonks, for the explana-
tion of which, see the Rules and Exmnples. It will be seen that but a few of
the words that might be used to represent the numbers, are introduced inta tliia
chapter. For explanations, refer to the Rules.
1 a baimer
2 ye hyena
3 yea I triW tri^^ tsMkt
4 O tree spree fbx-trcc
5 trui\i* tvu/BX^ Tessel
6 Zoe squaw gnaw SaW
7 true sprue chair
8 /roop' cane
you trow net
10 why fry aU sly by apt art Azo
11 act and tract sqttab barrel
12 di be ant ass gnarl squad bear
13 gfiat asp at arm yacht sprat ^vg
14 ask bee who go free add bottle
15 ark gwa} ffoat
IQ as am yam yam track sloe wheel
17 trap arch acts slue aft apples
18 gnash beau ash squash g^Ultar
19 an yard bow slow anaconda
20 ell yell ply trey basket
21 ha trend elm handkerchief
22 he yelp egg ebb tress trent caniel
23 yelk elk yet tret plea . diadem
24 two three do err ho Aog
25 hie die yerk ens elephant
26 yes hoe doe throe erst emuiet
27 Aar d/u^ )me elms eft trenk bee
28 eggs ebbs broOHA
29 haw plow trench throio turkey
30 ill each spring trill squirt jug
31 trig sprig squib irks eagie
32 earl trea4 earth spread Jethro
33 tea treat eat it imp squirm pail
34 trio if to tong^
35, tie zeal squeal tUWOhlt^
36 toe is claw trim trick imag^C
37 ear year trip ink zijik tntMUpet
38 earls inn squeak too barp
39 i7i yeas$ east inch tow Squirrel
40 Tray ox troll pry sky odds aj9ter
41 aUs eels yond SCarf*
42 aid trod tread fenee
43 troU trait tromp yolk SCissors
44 of odd fee orbs quail
45 trail york trains SCUlIs
46 foe aim trees OStricb
47 old air or oft skue fi*0§p
48 off aids orb boot
49 on yon train sprq,in scow CO0te
50 th y cry sprung trull lieu awl
51 trug la lamV lantern
52 the tried truss Gyv^ unoibrella
lion
lamp
loaf
urn
oar
cloak
C1M)W
tolKlCCO
moth
irpeetacles
mirror
mii^ket
lunii^k
f«pool
moor
53 lea out trump treat
54 lo thee oaf
55 oath truth lie vie
56 law tries tis thaw trtmk
57 yield up trunk
58 oak loo
59 thou trust snow vow
60 my yjiry Tnynh}
61 ma awls mav}
62 awe me aunt
63 sea misi^ wck*
64 see glee so auln
65 yawl spratdl muS}
66 aught maw gnaws straw
67 sue blue glue
68 schooV sooi^
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Rev. Dr. R.Price, 68. Pef WOO. James Momdng, ^2. Mshle.
Piercy Bysiilie Stolley, drowned in the Mediterraneau, 1^22.
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86
87
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89
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92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
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lOl
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103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
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117
118
119
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121
blow glow yawn sow mow SOfh
rye* rythm'
otlsra'\}
oint pen* gyr^
peapeax^
knee kneeV
oil pie pttmp*
raw paw roe
rue ckoix^
pooV room*
row know
shy cyst*
cor* cap* card*
iA«^Aed*
troops hrighi^
sho^^ lA^p*
CUT
shoe caw
troop coif*
coo coop*
show cow grow hrow
young fiy dry
youths owls
we owe
trout out trough
no Jlee
owlyouih
woe aught draw
our your
woo tt?ood*
pyramid
parrot
pencil
peaches
pony
pnnia
cat
desk
lark
horn
book
cage
cricket
sheaf
com
cup
brash
cradle
calico
shawl
peacock
ring
telescope
wildcat
leaf
owl
trap
wig:
ffoose
hat
potato
now own
a'spry ant slyl'^
why-a a-trac? opiate*
tzxe ache bye aye angeV ahysi?
why-I <ms*
a-iree artful
art lesii axux^ by4vLW^ angle
a-^quaw bayf
a-true ^^ath* oarfom* bagnio^
a-troo^
aptTiess by-word^ by-name^
ball gall gay bay slay balr^
ba^ slab wharf band
bad age slant gad bass
bat what gasp batch andirov}
ago bask
bath bark Gath
gas barn slack back
bar bald slap bank
gash slash barb garb abash*
ban bard
bell adieu slept whey dwell
beg bend whelm
122 bed bent sled whelp trade
123 get bet fret germ u^het whelk
124 ado before^ befooV
125 belch belh beHiy^ AbeP
126 gem beck
127 geld a-hue gelding^ berry^
128 b^ fresh beds afresh^
129 best when slew screw bench
130 sling beach bill which frill girt
131 bi7id big whig
132 bid bead girl whirl birth badge?
133 bit beat wheat bitQh slit gimp
134 fr^sk whisk
135 frith bedL
136 slim sUght beam whim fright
137 bear slip whip gift scrip dink
138 beak freak gilt whiff screed
139 bird gird beast bean beard whist
140 boy box beech screech scroll
141 frog bog bond agog^
142 freed front boss afrai(P
143 got gait beet sleet botch
144 beefafee
145 both bail frail froth d^th wheel
146 born bees frock from whom
147 bold gold sleep beer bomb
148 boh sleek
149 been slain gain screen frost again*
150 buy buU gull slung burgh
iSl bug scrub friend dug
152 btid ale freed goad bass a)cre bal^
153 but gut goat boat slut bump altBi^
15A busk burr
155 goal a-lie
156 burn gum bulb freight sleight
167 bunk boar bier slurtk slur
15S buih gushfrush buffbunn
159 board gun boast avoio burnt gulf
160 a-Urry amy (w^ronomer*
161 Asa OS-it bawls asbestos^ Amazon^
162 bawd fraud gaunt able bas^
163 a-sea am-l a-^Zight*
164 a-glee amo a-blot a-5ot*
165 bawl scrawl
166 goes fraught bauble^
167 gaup a*blue a-5tte (Upatftgus*
108 gawk a-gloow}
169 gunrd
170 M,ary a*pyramicP atchivetf
171 boils a-rat^
172 ape are gUess square irante hare
173 a-pea area
174 a-^knee apogee^ arose*
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Gen. John Biirgoyne. Henjry Latirens, 70. Zcd^/y.
Sir Joshua Reynolds,68.ia5/ati&. Sir iM Arkwrigbt, 60. Arid my.
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176 boil a'pie
228 thresh herb smelt
176 a-paw a-roe an?iadillo*
229 Jien den herd hew dew
177 a-Tue arrow*
230 hiU dirt health heart
178 a-pooV^ a-poox^
231 dig hind heals deals twig
179 guest a-Tow arounS^
232 dead head hid did plead hearth
180 ashy trashy beaux
233 heat hit hears ditch high
181 ash-a a«&^ booby^
23^ disk deaf plinth
182 good ace
235 heal death dirk heath smith
183 boot fruit sloops
236 his him dim plight
184 agree books
237 hear heap dip hip dear
185 booth boom
228 hUt dish dealt
\ 186 boom O'shoe
239 dean hist din heard
187 sloop boor build whoop
240 Dort dong throng doll adopt^ <
; 188 book goods guilt built
241 dog hog hob
189 boon 'a-shoto a'blaw
242 heed deed phd plaid
190 any adry slouch buoy zany
191 bound bowls abounds
243 hot hops plot plait
244 ye-oddye-fee
; 192 yard-ei^ ban^
2^ doth haU heel
193 gout slough bough abouf
246 horn deem dock hock smock adorr?
194 a-mo a-JUe anchor^ another^
247 hold hop deep hair deer
195 bowlfrtywns
2^ do ff holt dolt
196 bows bought bourn
249 host dost jJUnn
; \^ adroixBourhou^
250 hung hurt deign dull hull
IdS boult a-wood}
251 hug hub duet plug dub
199 gourd frown goton
252 died hied hunt eve hurl
200 ye-try ycLv extr^iCi^ extmci?^
253 hut doat hump plump smut hulk
201 exali^ exaci^ examine^
254 husk dusk
202 eye dye exploit^ «w?Zore* ca?crt*
: i 203 earist^ exile extend^ extort^
255 ye-lie ye-vie beli^
256 dies hies height duck phim hum :
204 echo Exodus^ exquisite^ express^
257 hoar dumb heir plumb \
205 hymn exult} exude^
258 hush plush huff adulf
206 Ayw^n* hysteric* hyssop^
259 dicst hoard dun hun hunch adusf
207 ftcpend* ca:;)eP expnnge^ export^
260 ye-nty trebly .
208 carcuse* carceP earcept* ea;cite'
261 daub hauls yes-a
209 ye-trow hyphen^ hydrs}
262 haunt daunt plaud treble
210 (iart Aar^ ^y play hall small
263 hough yes'l \
: 211 hand hag dab
264 hawks emo yes-0
1 212 Aa4 (fflwf else plant
265 Jiaul davms
213 Aa^ Aarm damp plat hatch
266 hoes does haum
214 A^arp ye-ask
267 ye-sue ye-blue daubs
215 AarA: (ZarA: Aat^ damn harsh
268 hawk ye^blooro} !
216 Aflw Aam dam hack smack
269 dawn haunch
217 4a7iA: plank hank
270 ye*rye ye-pynmid* crysypelas*
218 A<wA ^(kA halt plash
271 eraerase^
; 219 Aari hast plan half
220 (feZZ heU dey hey smell adept^
221 helmye-end
272 ere ereci^ eremite addle^
273 doit enrich? \
274 Zero N,ero erode^
222 help dent
275 ye-oil eruption*
223 hers het hemp
276 hues dues ermine^
224 ye-do desk debt
277 ye-rue error* errand*
225 heth ye-die ye-hie
278 ye-poor^ ycroorv} \
226 hem deck
279 hoist ye-row ye-know
;: 227 her held
280 ye-shy hoofs
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John Hancock. Heeds truA.
James Beattie.
Roger Shennan, 72. &w<f r^.
Wilbur Fiskc, 46. Far out foe.
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281 smooths zebra
282 hood eke.dooms
283 Aoof Aoopf
284 hoof hooks
286 smooth
286 do(wt
287 <foor Aoc>p
288 Aoo* Ao«^
289 yeshaw ye^grotv .
290 ye-dry ye-fty doubts
291 hound howls
292 cwtf ye-owe
293 /iottr^ ifoz^^A Aott^A
294 doubt ye-flee
295 Aozr^ ye-owl
296 ye-draw h(msQ^ dotcsQ^ plows
297 AoMr <^<wr
298 ye-woo ye siooip^ ye-drooip^
299 ^oz<;n enoto a4otov?
300 J-^ry caETH
301 each'a spring-a
302 T^6 eocA-hyena*
303 yea^yea each'I
304 tcAdr* jug-tree »/?/avored*
305 ichthjology yea'trum^
306 I'gnaw tymhsi}
307 tyrant* /^ro* ^y/>e* yea^true Tyre^
308 J-^roop* jiig«caiie
309 I-trow yea^you illness^ iZZ-Tiature*
310 ^ar^ ^0:2; to/^ day tach dang
311 ^a^ tact jag
312 J-de ^rf^e dad jagg spasm isle
313 5pa^ 5par5 talk tars dasp
314 J-twA: I'go task
315 j[parA: ^rwrfyat?elm*
316 tarn tack jack clack jam toseP
317 tar spar tap tank jar dap dank
318 clash spalt
319 tan span dan
320 tell spell earthy
321 ^eTiii spend earthbort} earthav}
322 5^d[ tent spent ted bide^
323 term sperm jet jerm text idioi^
324 Ldo tenth def
325 clerk jerk
326 ^em;>^ ^cr« 5pecA:
327 cleft trier clergy^
328 spcZ^ spectre*
329 test jest ten jew dew
330 teach treaty spill spirt tilth ding
331 jig eat-a teals eatahW Tib&t^
332 ^6^772^ sprite trite tead tid
333 tears spears teat spit
334 speaks I-to table-tOllffl
335 spins deans teal
336 team tight tick cUck
337 tear spear clear climb dip dink
338 speak jilt tilt diff spice^
339 spin dean tin dtnch
340 toy speech tort toll joy cloy sport
341 clog jog job
342 speed toss clod taint tod
343 jot spot elect
344 Lfee triform^
345 tail teeth jail doth teens
346 torn teem daim^ dock tongs atonf
347 top told torch jeer tomb atop
348 jolt teek speeds doff
349 tost ton Spain tost ghost
350 ivy clung spurt
351 jug tug tub club turf
352 toad tied spied teint spud give
353 jut clump jump cliUch spurs
354 tu^k squeal' O
355 tiel triumph trutMe^^
356 turn spurn ties tuck duck spi^
357 tier spur tuft junk spwnk
358 tu^h cloak
359 just tun spun toast clumps
360 easy im^gery^ impiously^
361 is-a i-saX^ irnbecHe^
362 eagle ease taunt jaunt bibl^
363 yearu'l imiioXQ^
364 "
365 spawl spavms
366 toes Lsaw taught
367 I-su£ Lgltie
368 J-5wit* iwi^rue* imbnite^
369 spavm tawn
370 ZTiAry f (iZy cary
37 1 Ira toils spoils
3P'2 ^ripg iTTe idle square joint
373 J-rgff.ch* yea-rich} table-peach
374 iron} tripod}
375 toil spoil aerie
376 ink-nimi^ I-paw
377 J-n^ ear-ring*
•378 I'poox^ spoilt
379 yow^ I'know join earwig
380 icy I'Shy
381 ^oo& 5po{>&
382 ice trice
383 ^00^ icicle*
384 J-Arccp* ^ricalor'
385 ^ooZ spool spoons tooth
386 /-5Ao«
I'see impnson^ impress^ isohXe^
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1794
Edward Gibbon, 57. Gmrup.
Wiliiatn C. firvout.
Rtcb. Henry Lee, 62. Lead me.
Edward Everett.
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387 I.c(nn* I-coiV^
388 ^00^
389 spoem I-ihota I grow
390 iewcA tn^rust* intrude*
391 jowb iabom
392 ^riTie cZotwi trifle
393 ^ot£^^ d!(mf spout tout tours
394 iw/brm* zTi/bld* i7i/*inn*
395 jowl clowns towns
396 tourn spouse^
397 ihur journey^
398 c^i^ J-t^(?o
399 rcmm c^oton ^ptmf*
400 O'try ain oxyokQ^ darygen*
401 ox a\\c} oxgoiid}
402 O-ye oxen^ oyer*
403 ozana* troUin^
404 frocA«f adtfe/ish
405 oxM Trot/tike^ scythe^ styUgfii^
406 boyr oystei^
407 0-^n^ 5%rocket*
408 oX'hvM'^ O'trooip^
409 0-yott tree-you
410 fall fang fay thwart quart
411 /ag' quag fact scarf (pmLm scab
412 ai^e fcaZ^ fcan^
413 fat farm scamp
414 O-o^X: o^cc scarp
415 scathfaXJiQi^
416 gtoicA: thwojch
417 ybr 5car scald fratik afhi^
418 jtowA s^^jf
419 fan fast scan
^0 fell prey quell hodif
421 /en(i 0-ew^
422 ye<i o(ic j9re55 scent hod^
423 /e^cA 5A:cicA
424 0-doodox^
425 O'kie fellow' felon^
426 fernfemaW
427 phlegm ferocious^ ferry' '
428 felt fecund}
429 yez(? quest fen quench
430 ^ gwi^ jweacA *A:iZZ 5^iV^
431 fig find ^m Jib
432 quid firth prism print '
433 fit firs fears quit firm feat fitch
4Hfisk
435 quirk filch
436 first fight quick skim prim prick
437 fir fear skip quip
^3S fish ski ff quilt %
439 fin fist feast sMn finch quean
440 fox fort prong
441 fog fond fob fails
442 feed font forth faint quaint
443 feet folk scot form
444 O'odd scoffer' offer^
445 /aiZ quail fork fiel quoth faith
446 y^cy prompt scorn
447 fold fair queer scold for scorch
448 scoff feeds focKxs'
449 fain ford folks apron^
450 /a/Z ^Arz^Z /izm scuUfuiz
451 fund fiend scurf fvh
452 /wrZ sciid feint fuss
453 /wr5 5cwZA: jcw? (?Ztve*
454/^/tree-Iamii
455 /oaZ
456 5A:e>* scum foam
457 furfidd ucunkfutz -
458 ^cw/
459 /kn pnci? 5^n
460 0-77iy o^^rich*
461 O^flge*
462 o^'Ze twtcn* (wt»lel*
463 /oc-/ oblige' obtiqixt'
464 0-^ce tree-see
465 /awms o«er*
466 foesfoeman^
467 0-52^e tree-blue tree^glue
468 jfcttZ? (wcibte* feoff
469 yiit^-Ti /flt^Ti prawn
470 atVy orchard* ^^
471 /oiZi orator' otange' oTacW orgwo}
472 or€ ope fend yore trope once ochre
473 (7W027 oriental' Oj^ine* optmti*
474 quoif oppress'
475 ^e'Z quoins ojw^Ierit*
476 0-r aw foible'
477 0-rt^ o;?pose* fl|^(Wiem*
478 0-poor' old-brash'
479 /ow^ gwoiw /om quoits orphtiti'
480 0-5^7/
481 fools
482 /oo^ yoAre
483 foot scoops orbit' octavo
484 proof
485 /ooZ
486 tree-shoe ask-sho^
487 scobpfooVd
488 occur' occasion
489 O-^Aoto
490 trophy bon'f
491 found
492 07Z€ goTic* ^one* Zone proud fount
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1795.
James t. Polk.
Ezra Stiles, 66. ^moo.
James Boswell.
Louis XVII, in prison.
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493 scout 0-OUt
494 0-710 eofibe-tree
495 fold fowl scotol prowl
496 O'woe fought onsei^
497 scour four oniov}
498 0-woo tree-stood}
499 scourd onward*
500 ^Ae ^rieD cryp<
501 cry-a ^Ay-a
502 Zye ar'ky^
503 cry-Ilyiug^
504 cry-0 cry-tree thy 'tree
505 ZympA ^Ay-veSJ8Cl
506 crystaP Mj^^elf *
507 Zyre* Zyrist^
508 ZycanthTop3r^ awl-caiie
509 Zywa: awl'-net thy-net
510 Zay Zor crayon*
511 lag land crab snag vagabond*
512 lad lass snarl ladder^
513 that vat cramp lamp snatch swarm
514 ark-g(^ bubc^ lantern-tree
515 lark lath swallQyr^
516 cram crack tack snack alaf
617 lank thank crank craft lamb snap
518 lash crash swash snake^
519 last vast lard than van
520 they vex crept vert swept averf
521 leg lend lewd vend
522 led lent cress shred vent
523 let veto^ letter^ letiatx}
524 theory^ t?ieonsi^ theologian^
525 creios length lens
526 them acrer
527 theft left aver^ legs
528 verb Zccture*
529 lest vest then crest
530 thing leach shrill swing
531 crih liberty^ league^
532 lead lid lights lint cricket^
533 Ut lisp crisp crimp limp sweat
534 leqflife^ altd"
535 veal4hir4s sweal
536 this learn cream thirst swim
537 lip leap lift limh think viper*
538 leak leash creak sneak sniff ^
539 thin lean least list crean sphinx
540 long thong loU snort leech alon^
541 log lob avails
542 laid creed loss cross
543 lot leet sweet
544 Thfnrp thee-O creeks
(^45 vail snail avaiP
546 lorn thorn lock crock lees
547 veer lop creepleer loft meet aloff
6^ creek creeds Leeds
549 vain lost lain lord sword
550 luU lux
551 lug snug shrug shrub
662 lied load
553 lump thump crump crutch
554 lief loaf thief
666 loath lurk 9
556 vies cries lungs loam luck
667 crumb thumb lurch shrunk their
558 crush shriek croak snuff luff
559 loan lust crust vein lunch aRou?
560 eighty bv^ lawy&f
561 law-a usage^ alma^
562 laud vaunt vse Zat^num' avaunf
563 laugh laW'tSiMe
564 vatuts usquehaMgh} alsc^
565 crawl usur^.
566 laws thaws
567 umpire^ leopard} un-glu^
568 vault t^m^rella*
569 lawn launch
570 buri/' urchm}
571 urbane* unchaste*
572 void uphoW upheW avoi^
573 loiter^ upturn^
574 upoik^ unchairf
676 loins upZand*
576 upmost^ crowade*
577 upro&T^ upper^
578 bureat^ upshot^ voice^
579 loin upvfaids upstart^
580 L,ucy goaUsh]^
581 ucase Te88el-ca^€ un-calledP
582 ^nice urge
583 Zoc»pf unship*
584 loofaloof^
686 loons Tessel-cup
586 Zoom cn^ise*
587 Zoop fU7oop
588 look crook
589 Zoon ^ti^oon
590 vouch crouch trusty snoury avoucV
591 crovm^d crowd unahU alphcf
592 hud alotuP shroud
593 lout snout though
594 trustee unfeU}
696 crowns thowl unlorei^
69B vows crows thought snows
5w croup loup lour
598 unkind^ UTtcaught* uncouA} ^
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599 crown
600 squaw'try mE au^B
601 syhW ^iarite*
602 gnaw-ye as-y^
603 symptom^ auziViavy^
604 sylph wyology' gnaw-trce
605 ^2/Zlable' sylv^n^ mythology^
606 myrrh myso]P myslery^ si/siem}
607 ^z/ringe^ 5?/?'tis* ????/riad' as-trv^^
608 .97/cophant' .^^cophantic' 7772/-caiie
609 .<:2/^^<^op6^ 52/?/agoguc^ syphon^
610 507/ ?7my 7??rtr^ '/77gZZ mayox^
611 5<77z^ ^Za/zr^ gland blab marks
612 5a<^ 7/2GC? glad augc\^
613 5aZ 7?za^ samp match matKook}
614 wai/j 5a/fron* ^fl/e*
615 777a?7i: TWflr^A augicsi^ wrath augur^
616 i/flcA: sad: masi^x^ ^ ■ ^
617 saiik blank mar map march sap
6 IS sash mash malt salt
619 man mast blast blanch
620 sell sex gaudxf- bawdy^ sept
621 send blend mend sect
622 seiit awed bled bless mess ampl^
623 met set ;72€^al* meieoT^ wretch
624 mejol sequeV '
625 mews melov} methe^m^ select^
626 memory^ sem'mdfy^
627 mermsiW abler^ TTzerchant* sermon*
628 7nelt mesh sccmtq^
629 men glen self meto seio blench llest
630 sing string mix bleach mill sign
631 mind bli7id glib midst
632 mint mid mead meant bliss miss
633 seat sit meat bleat sigh milk
634 autograph* autocx^i^ automaXov}
635 seal^neal sixth milch
636 gleam seam might blight sight
637 sip blear sift sink mink mild
638 bleak milt mice^
639 glean rhean sin mist
640 song sort mort stroll
641 sob mob blond
642 said meed seed bleed maid mosa
643 sot blot meet blotch gleet
644 gleefxiV month
645 moth sail sons mail awJuV
646 sees glees morn seem morn sock
647 •oJd monk soft mop seer
54b seek meek saik
64S) son main most seen hlain soph
O90 ning muU suck much
651 mug surf
652 mud blunt ^^ ^^^ ...
653 sut moat bloat gloat f^mp
654 musk suf[efl author^,
655 murk 5?/^phur seive^ muie^
656 sum vmck mulct mum glum
657 sup sunk soap soar blur
658 mush hl^ist bluff muff soak
659 sun moan mien mumps must
660 g7]Lay)'my sawyex^ austral^
661 saw-aviauls
662 bauble^ maudVm^ ^AWDUSt* ambl^
663 sawing^ gnaw-aught
664 gnatU'So squaw-see
665 maul Saul
666 maios saios mausoloMxv} ^aw^age*
667 saivpii squaio-blue gnaw'glue
668 mugre^ mawkish} saucy^ saucer^
669 sawn blawn
670 gluey gyiaw-ry^^ •
671 soils moils
672 sued glued
673 auridQ^ awWcular*
674 auroxa} gnaw-knee
675 soil gnaw'pie
676 sues blues glues
677 squaw-^ue gnaw-riie ^/t^-chsiur
678 blue-cane glue-cane
679 777o/5f blueness} ,
680 squauyshy
681 schools sooths
682 77zoo<i ^ZoofZ blooms
683 «^27 wtoo^ ttwc/ion'
684 5^i^aw-A:ccp' gruztO'COiu}
685 school sooth moons
686 gZoom ^/oo^n
687 TTwor Twoorland*
688 mooi^ ^/ootf^
689 50071 moon awkwdLxd} suits ^
690 squajo-dry squaw-fly gTuiw*Jfy
691 mound sound mouths
692 mou7it squaiU'Owe as-we ^ >'
693 sours aivning^ blowis^^
694 squaw-Jle^ gnaw-K&
695 Si>z^ 50U/A mouth
690 joff^s iZoiifj ^^oiM mourn sought
697 Jotir sowp ?nould
693 ??i^wZ^ mtfK^f J
699 sown moiMn blown
700 true-try irue-spry
701 r^^Tn ^JV^nry^
702 rj'fi ryd^r true-ye
703 *rw«-i/f^ij pyraiuid-table
704 true-lree
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Edmund Burke.
Horace Walpole.
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811 grand brand calm grab brag cab
812 conr ^an^ g^^*^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^
813 eat catch grasp brat cars camp
814 carp sharp cask
815 shark cark calx
816 sham earn brack
817 cop car shaft graft shank
818 cash splash graff
819 calf can card cast bran branch
820 key cell shell grey kept
821 keg CSOke'^nd
822 .9^e(i ^rerf cent cess
823 ^e^cA ^oorf-table"
824 she-fo\ cane-do?'
825 shelter* brews celesiml^
826 ^Aew A-6cAr ashes^ cemeni^
827 A-^'^5 o^^^r sheriff^
828 ^Acfi^s 5A<?A:el*
829 ken shew brew grew shelf cest
8^*30 ki7ig kill bring shirt breach boot'if
831 kind grind brig grig
832 AriVi Arm bread splint aci^
833 split grit great shears
83 1 bri^k ki/n
836 breath sheath kirk
836 kick bright grim brick
837 ship shift shear grip brink breadth
838 break kids
839 gri?i grist shin breast kiii cist
840 coy short breech corps^e*
84 1 rob cog shag
842 shod braid breed gross cod
843 cot grot shot sheet greet cops-e^
844 coftm' coffee^
84-5 greens broth cork grains keel
846 corn shorn brock shock cock
847 keep shop cold comb sheep
848 colt greek breeds
849 keen sheen green graiii cost brain
850 coax coach
851 cub -grub
852 broad gr^t brunt cud
853 cut coat shut groat cusp
854 brief grief
' 855 ceil coal shoal g^oam
856 C7i7'st grum ^
857 cup cur shield
858 brush cuff curb grujt
859 shun groan coast curif
860 cawne^my ash'tohacco*
861 shawls brawls shoeboy^
862 acme' cane->aun^ caB€;<-au7f .
863 caulk shoe-tuhle ^ "^
864 caufcauks
865 catt/ MdtrZ ^aufZ
866 caught shoes
867 eane-g/2/6 cane^lue
868 cflwA: cane-moor' ^^o^-canc
869 braion shoe-Wket
870 cane-pyramid coifs
871 cozZ^ ^roz^
872 trooped cane-pcncil
873 trooping* Coit cane-peaches
874 CO?/ cane-pony
87 15 coins cane-pic groins
876 ct^5 cradle-saw
877 broil'd coird
878 ^roop-cane cradle-cane
879 coin groin
880 brooch cane shy cane-book
881 cooZ^ calico-banner
882 brood canc-cricket
883 shoot bruit coops
884 brooks cooks
885 cool coons
886 bruise* groom broom coom
887 coop calico chair
888 cook shook brook broods
889 coon shoots
890 court couch
891 ground coward} cowslip
892 count cane-t<^e
893 shout cough shough
894 cane-^e show-tox
895 cowl growl groioth
896 grows broivs shows brought
897 could should group
898 counts show-CSkWke
899 grown brown shouts shovm
900 Styx lUK OWE you-try
901 nymphs yoivng-banner stygi'ox^
902 outre yozcnger^ dryer*
903 you-yea cZr^z-tablc »
904 you'tree ijoimg-tvee
905 nymph style* phylactery^ ■
906 rhyme* physicitxri* flyblow*^
907 you-trne styptic*
908 2/o?m5'-cane you-troo^* dry shod}
909 yoU'troiu Wket-you dryness^
910 j^az tfjao; 5/ ay rZray t^ay 5^ar/ ttwiZZ
911 stand toa7idflag drag wag drab
912 want toad toarns
913 loarmflat stamp stalk walk
914 flask warp
915 5^arA: you-ark you-gOSit
916 t(?a5 dram flam stack warn
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Jeremy Belknap, 54. Boflo
Dr. Richard Parmer.
Thomas Pemiant, 72. Pes pi.
WiUiam Wales.
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706 trvs'squaw chynuzK
707 pyre* ;?yramid' pyrotechnics*
708 true-troo^^ pyramid-cane
709 true-you true-traw
710 ray pay part pall pang rang
711 rag palm pact
712 rant chant chasm pant pass pad
713 rat chat charm chalk rasp patch
714 true-ask truego trttebovn}
715 path park rath chark
716 ram pack rack knack
717 rap raft parch rank arguf^
718 rash chaff rants chants pants
719 ran past pan
720 pert aperf rex
721 rend pend peg true-end
722 rent red pent
723 pg? pguicoat* p^«y*
724 rc/use* repress*
725 rests pests pens perk
726 p6cA: rec/tf check
727 re/*/ per repel* pepper* perch
728 peZ? recur' true-eggs
729 peTi pe5/ rc5? chest pew chew knew
730 ring rich rill chill reach peach
731 rig pig rind rib realm
732 read rid pint pearl
733 peat cheat pit chit knit pitch
734 risk chirp
735 peal pith pins
736 ream rim right knight chick
737 pear rear child pink chip reap rift
738 peak reads rids
739 rist pin chin pinch
740 roll poll knoll port
741 rob pond knob
742 rod reed paid pod paint
743 pot romp pomp knot chops
744 reef true-fee true-of
745 rail pail pork reel kneel peel
746 rock knock rose^ rains pahis
747 chair pair peer cheer chop peep
748 cheek reek polt
749 chaiii post chord rain pain
750 pull rung poach reign
751 rug rub pug
752 road churl purl pulp puss runt
753 put pump rump rut
754 chief rusk purr
755 Ruth reins puns runs
756 churn ntm chuck roam pus
757 church pup roar
758 rush push ruff chuff
759 pun run rust rein punch
760 ttr;7fy' true-my
761 ra2£7-iones* true-awls
762 people^ true-awe true-auni
763 pairing* true-sea
764 true-glee amory*
765 Pai^ true-awl
766 paws pause*
767 pa7fper* true-Hue
768 pat^ity* truie-moo^
769 pa^^;7^ paunch ratimess'
770 /r?ze-pyrainid
771 rotTs ri^e-a /n^-|Kirrot
772 po27i/ /^t^-pencU
773 cAom true-pea rue- 1
774 rwe/ul* rue-tree
775 roi/ true-oil
776 rues poise^
777 c^oir true-rice
778 choice^ rz^-canc
779 true-row roist
780 roofs true-shy
781 pooZ^ /rwe-cag©
782 rooei roams true-she
783 roo/ 2rt^-slieaf
784 roof rooks
785 pooZ /rM€-Clip
786 roo7« true-shoe
787 poor poop
788 rooA; roo^^
789 roo5i true-show
790 pot^c/^ true-fly
791 round pound around^
792 trueness true-we Bmot powe^
793 row/ po?z/ rough
794 poz^er/uP true-no
795 poiuerless^ true-owl
796 roz£>5 knows chotcse^
797 powr true-our rounds pounds
798 po2^Z/ pouTids rounds ^
799 knovrri true-own routs
800 oozy ^Ae
801 cyo'net' Brya)^
802 5Ay-hyena cane-ye
803 cycZe' cyc^id^
804 cypress^ shy-fox Cyprxxs^
805 cylinder* ^ AyZike^
806 cyTwbal* CanC-^wato
807 canc-/r?«e fl^/^y-chair*
808 5y%y-e:|iie book-cane
809 cys/ cyTiick* cane-yoi*
810^att car/ ^Aay ^ray ^ray
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Geo. Washin^tea, 67.
William Melmoth.
WridUuela. Galvani, 55. GcfHe,
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917 i^ar ^/ar drank Jlank starch flap
918 wiw/i ^?aiA i/a/" draff wants
919 t(?a7t' *^tf^A wast
920 w?e/Z wc;??
921 wend loeb towel f
922 whdfled went dress
923 z^e^ /le^ next
924 nefyoU'do you-^ki&g
925 never* ?^;eZfare'
926 5^e;7» 5/cr/i neck
927 5/cp (;?r<5^5 iV<?ptune*
92S Jlesh welt weds
929 west nest flew stew, drench wench
930 wing sting fling flirt will still
931 wig wind
932 fi^rcac? stead flint 'stint
933 wit flit nigh 7\eat flitch wisp
934 wi?i^A w?2/e*
935 loeal steal with weans wins
936 night dream flight stick steam
937 wild wear drear stir drift drink
938 wiltfl^ak steak stiff wish
939 win wean wist
940 droU wort
941 flog nails wails flails works storks
942 need weed steed Tiorth staid
943 ?iot waitfl^et notth stoi'm worm
944 waif you-fee you-odd
945 nail luail flail steel stork work
946 worn flees flock stock
947 stop nor steep weep stair steer
948 week weeds needs ^
949 won ween drain stain
950 stung flung flux nuU you-cry
951 drub stub drug
952 stud stunt drums
953 stump float neigh nut weigh
954 .v^m/5 owl-tree
955 you-lie nullify^
956 dries flies drum stuck
957 drunk numb toidd
958 flusk^uff
960 nun stumps
060 you-my you-tohSitCO
961 drawls you ! ma
962 flaunt you-aunt
9S3 rfra?y-tabI6 troio-sea
964 you-see yoU'SO
965 dratvl
966 26-OC5 6?ra2r5 draught naught
967 yoU'ghip. you-hhie
968 flaunts draw-CJSMt
969 yoU'glow draum ijou-hhw
970 7/oz^-pyrainid
971 o^^r-banner t/(m-|iparrot
972 rheums trounce bo^nce^
973 adroif neut
974 <wr-fox 3/oMr-ibx
975 you'oil owr-VCSSel
976 rheum noise^
977 you-rue our-dlBiT
978 yowr-cane o?^r-cane
979 you'know our -WkCt
980 yoit'shy N,ancy'
981 5?ooZ5 2^;oo-a you-CSige
982 t^oo^ stood flood
983 stoops droops
984 5?ooZ:5 woof nooks
985 5^00Z 2(700Z .
986 t(;oos 7W05e^
987 c?ro<>p 5^oop
988 nook floods woods fhok
989 7w>ow you-show
990 you-fly you-dry
991 wound drownd
992 you'Oioe flowers^
993 stout flout you-out
994 yow ? 710 you-flee
995 drouth you-owl
996 ^zt?5 drought nought
997 ^wr ^^;o^^Z5 wounds
998 you'woo now^SOKMit
999 n^oun flown drown
1000 all-try art-spry
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K.ECOMUENDATIONS
Firom ttu JRcv. Thonuu Marcy.
Having examined the principles of Mne-
monics, as taught by Mr. Robert Pike, I am
■ prepared to say that, in mv opinion, they are
worthu the attention of ally especially profes-
sional men, who have occasion frequently to
refer to dates, historical fiMts, and statistics.
T. Maroy.
Palmer, Oct. 27, 1843.
From Rev. George^ W. Meads, and othtn.
We, the undersigned, having gone through
a course of instiuction in Mnemonics under
the superintendence of R. & W. C. Pike, feel
much delighted with the study, and believe it
of vncalchJ,able utiUty in the association of
events, and the remembrance of historical,
geographical, and chronological &cts.
Signed, Gsorge W. Meads',
Wm. Mullen,
Benj. Hobton,
E. B. Haymks,
£. R. Haynss,
£. H. Whexlbb,
W. D. Beokk,
O. P. Tarbill,
A. MiLLBS,
Mills L. Calsndkr,
Wrentham, May 10, 1844.
This may certify, that we, the undersigned,
have attended a coarse of instructive lectures
given by Miss Rebecca Pike, on the science
of Mnemonics, and feel highly pleased with
her instruction.
We appreciate the valis^ of this new sci
ence, and earnestly commend it to the candid at
UnHon Of all lovm of learning. We consider
this new iurt of memory as reflecting much
credit on the philosophical genius of its au-
thors, as a system of surprising utility in the ac-
^isiiioif oj knowledge, and as emminlly qttaUjled
to fortify and give promptness to memory.
We invite those who yet doubt, to " eome
and see."
Wm. B. Bugbee,
i B. H. Fales, Jr.,
Wm. Everett JiLLfSon,
D. J. Abbott^ v
Cari^LXS C. Shaw,
EtifeHA FiSK,
jAiitES' p. Lincoln,
S. Warner, Jr.,
TbomX9 A. Georob,
B. S. Fai^incton,
C. G. Mahn,
B. J. Felt,
D. E HxifteBNWAT,
J.M'Lanb,
and fourteen ladies.
Mansfield, Mass., June 6, 1844.
d, having attended a course
t scimce of Mnemonics,
can cheerfully testi^ in fiivor of its utility.
From an investigation of its principles, it la
believed that this science is founded accord-
ing to the law of association of ideas in the
human mind. This method for remembering
historical dates, statistical numbers, and im-
portant facts, must be of inestimable value to
all who are engaged in the pursuit of knowl-
edge.
We can confidently recommend it to the no-
tice of students and teachers, and all persona
who wish to improve and invigorate th^r
memory.
Cloa a. Dumans,
Julia A. Watterins,
A. M. W. Allen,
Abby Robinson,
Isaac Skinkxr,
Nathaniel Cook, Jr.,
H. B. Pratt,
E. G. Cobb. '
Umonmlle, Fe6. 9, 1844.
Miss Pikr, — After eacpressing my high
consideration of respect, permit me to say,
that I have attended two of your lectures,— i
that I am fully satisfied of their importance,
and, knowing as I do the inestimable value of
a godd memory, I pray you proceed, and so far
as possible lend your capacity and qualiJ&ca-
tions to further our advancement in this most
desirable of all useful accomplishments, and I
most anxiously hope that you wUl receive a
most cordial reception from this investieating
community, which I have no reason to doubt.
I am truly your most humble servant,
J. S. Richabdsoi^.
We, the undersigned, having attended a
course of lessons in Mnemonics, feel a pleas-
ure in saying, that we consider it a system
of r^, undoubted utility, well worthy the at-
tent^n of all who desire to increase in knowl-
edge. If introduced into schools, and taught
as a part of primary instruction, we think it
would greatly facilitate the acquisition of
knowledge, saving much of time and labor,
jmd placing it on a surer basis.
A. B. Smith,
Peana L. Smith,
Sarah Smith,
- Susan A. ManhinOj*
Martha L. Jones,
Minerva M. Jones.
We, the undersigned, having had childrtn
under the instruction of Mr. Pike, in Mne-
monics, would cheerfully state, that we be-
lieve the system to be of real utility in its
application to any thing to be retained in the
memory, especially virhere dates, numbers,
&c. are to be remembered.
Alvah Htbe,
Wm. F. Dickinson,
and seven others.
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the borrower from overdue fines.
Harvard College Widener Library
Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-2413
Please handle with care.
Thank you for helping to preserve
library collections at Harvard,
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