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MNEMONICS 



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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 



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ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE 



ART OF MEMORY. 



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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. 



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PRINTED BY SAMUEL N. DICKINSON. 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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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PREFACE. 



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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. 



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KEY AND PRINCIPLES OF MNEMONICS. 
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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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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 
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letters together ; and if the combination amounts to a 
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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. 



SYNOPSIS OF SEVERAL KEYS. 





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sp 


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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 

1 One thousand nndentood. 



1810. MflwHj Ppnon, 1810. L6rdCoUiiigwood,Mardi7. 

Mr. Windham, June 4 PrinceM Am^a, Nov. 2. 



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S. Accessidn of Edgar, twelfth Sovereign of England, A. S, ^9. 

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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1 Bear, the symbol for \% 
s Oae thousand underatoocU 
3 Dog, symbol for 24. 
^ 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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' Mr. Percival «Ao^, May 11. 



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MNEMONICS. 



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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thing ft$ euUivatawg oaie iadivMw^, 
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 
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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. 
Daiid Brainerd, 30. Bds ing. 



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- \ 
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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- 
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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 
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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 



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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- 



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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 
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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, 


« 


452 


1313, 


II 


1314 


1481, 


II 


1486 


1525, 


II 


1523 


1581, 


II 


1579 


1829. 


i< 


183? 



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 

^ j^ 

1723. ?*^?%?^*l®r, 77.JS5iee*rM«. D.of Marlborough, 73. JlfaiWoeo. ' 
1^ Lord Ersrkine, Nov. 17. Riego executed, Nov. 27. 



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METHOD 



OP 



LEARNING THE SYMBOLS. 



CHRONIC SYMBOLS. 

Correspondmg to the Years of any Century. 



o 
o 

o 



I 



p 



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 




LIOO 


P( tat 


4 



r 



1724. 



Humphrey Prideaux, 77 Peer 

\rue. 



Lord Byron, April 19. 



25 



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North 



X 



J' 



% 



K 



> 



A<y 



.^^ 



90 
West 



ROOM. 



85 
80 





^. 



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 
/ 




BOOM. 


^^ 


^ 


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. 



26 



SrSTEU OF CHEONICS. 



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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SYSTEM OF OKRONICS. 

; 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 


1 











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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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. <. 

\ ^ 

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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8Y»TS|i| OF CHRONICS 



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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SYSTEM OP CHRONICS. 



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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MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES. 



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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' Joseph lathrop, 90. Laringfiy. 



William Soaitrte, 75. JKa o%u 
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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 â–  
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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Rule XIV. n. Symbols. 

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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3 ; 8Q I find the index of the year, 3. Thus, the irnkx of the month of June 
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. . * 

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EXAMPLE t 

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 

3 



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 
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is a very good lesson to commence 
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^ 
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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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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. 



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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 
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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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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 

3£ 

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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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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1737. 
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 

46 

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. 



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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 -- â–  â–  ---_-- 

52 

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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^1. Norwich, Ctj 

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 ? 

'<â– 'â– â– 'â–  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 



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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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75. Thomaston, Me. 

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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1780. 




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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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. 



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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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EXAMPLES IN CLASSIPICATIOW. 



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 



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4 

4 

10 

2 

4 

34 

5 

24 

1 

6 

15 

9 

7 

8 

7 

4 

4 

11 

10 

21 

10 

7 

5 

1 

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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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EXAMPLES IN CLASSIFICATION. 



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. 
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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. ... 



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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 

a mm of years 

speeds^ 

- B^ekold 

• with goods 

an end 

wars 

a/way 

could 

who grctvs 

without a groan 

Inakus 

a grip* 

- a slham 

run 

rail 

for a ring 

in virtue's path 



- after a meal 



B. C. 

4004 
1656 
2348 
2247 
2188 
1921 
1913 
1910 
1897 
1896 
1859 
1856 
1837 
1816 
1759 
1745 
1730 
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' Cities and boroughs. 

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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 



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leads 

Up 

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Tarquin, the'Proud^ seized upon the kingdom ofRome, — a new leaf 

leg 

left 

not to vex 

at last 

FcwA-ti* 

with a lark 

that 

swapt 

lynx 

the lynx 

scouts 

- founts 
founds 
a scout 

found 

Marath ony 

no fool 

proof 

- food 
proofs 

to know 

row 

foes 

O, see 



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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ask? 
yam 
due? 
spring 



A. D. 

16 
27 
30 



. Jind^ 31 



- zeal 35 

year 37 

Antioch ^ 4Q 

aid . 42 

* - aids 48 



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64 
64 
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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 
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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 
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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 
falline at his feet. ^ 

t The doors were barred and the house set on l^e, and six hundred perish«d. 




1762. 



Dr, Bradley, 70. Bawdry. 
Roger Griswold, 50. Gaudly, \ 

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Lord Anson, 62. Atryme. 
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. 
*The YfOTii fraud represents 162, the thousands slain at Chalons. 



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Abfel Hdmes, 74. Haut to. ^ 
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 



,7^. Hogarth, 67. i&wrMt/e. 

^'^ 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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Aldea Bradford, 78. Awlpoo, 
^liam Dnnlap, 74. Dawlpo. 



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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 



1282 

1283 

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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1360 
1364 
1370 
1378 
1380 
1385 




jygg Admiral Boscawen, 50, Basly. Dr, John Ma&d, 75. Lama ml. 
' h\m TmuitluU, 87. Toes me. Dr. Birch, 61. jBythma. 



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EVENTS CHRONOLOGIZED. 






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, - - â–  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 
against Venice. ' 

s Switzerland, Spain, Venice, and Pope Julius II. 



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399 

402 

410 

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420 

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Accession of that wicked Christian II., who married Isabella, sister of 
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a tark 

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alas ! 

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a thank ? 

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a crash 

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vast 
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avert 
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1515 
1515 
1516 
1516 
1517 
1517 
1517 
1518 
1519 
1519 
1519 
1520 
1520 
1520 
1520 
1521 



led 1522 
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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Eli WbilDey, 57. Watdlup. 






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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. 
Me of Wellingtoi. 



Tecumgeh, 44. Tawnfee. 
jpewitt Clinton 59. Cawnthau. 



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Massacre of St. Bartholomew, avoid 

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" 



crowds 
crowds 
crowds 



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as true 

jycophant 

5^Aon 



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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1770. 



John T. Kirkland, 70. Kryry. 
WalterScott, 62. %^mc. 






George Cainrinf, 57. Oryup. 
George Wtadteflekly 5e.Wafui. 



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EVGNTS C9ILONOI.OGIZED. 



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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 
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1623 
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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 



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1630 
1631 
1632 
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mice 
mist 
song 
sons 



meet 
meet 



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1642 

1642 

1643 
1643 



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2c&sail 1645 
sold 1647 
sold 1647 
sold 1647 



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J 77^ lyttfln laVi 71. Lartapa*, 
Timothy Alden, 68. Arpasoo. 



- Dr. Tobias Smollet, 61 .*% mo. 
Th<»iias Gray. 

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72 



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 



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1650 
1650 
1651 
1652 
1653 
1654 
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1658 
1658 
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1665 
1666 
1672 
1672 
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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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* Mas. Rayenscroft, 58. i?i>e£^^. 

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73 



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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1778 '• ^* Hirrhoi, €8. Scunisoo.r^-^^ Joha Randolph, 60. Sarrimy. 
lK>ixlChesterfleld,79.(7a«worW.Com. W. BainbrU^^ 



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74 



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. 



aretf 1744 



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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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jy*^ Lord Clive, Nov. 22* 



Oliver Goldsmith, 43. €loldt 



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EVENTS CHBONOLOOIZED. 



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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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PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 



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2 
3 

4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 



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 
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1929 
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1845 






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RECAPITULATION. 



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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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 



* Words marked thns ... are used to suggest the name of the town« . 



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1776. J«'t%iKbnT,U.£oittaw. ^'imojB«to«, 66. J5H»««<n<;. 
James Fer^ruson. David Hume, 65. i% mtL 



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I CITIES AND TOWNS CLASSIFIED. 



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36 
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. 



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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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1778. 



WffliattiPm,70.iVij^ 
Voltajre, 84. Vamoe9> 



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ChM. Von XAaxMUM, to.lpipg. 
J. JaquM RouiMim, uJiaf$$$. 



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O 






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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 


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383,702 


boy field 


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212,266 


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' Edward P. LiYinpton; 63. ^ Pkllip P. Barbour, 60. Bareamg. 



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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 . . . 
â–  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 ( ^ 



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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 . . 

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1087 

1100 

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Sir Fnuds Chantrey; 60. Carca my. Lord Hawke. 

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BIETHS AND DEATHS OF DISTINGUISHED MEN ; 

IN THE 

EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES. 



' Distiogoished in research of Tarious kinds, 
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1706. 
1707. 
1708. 
1809. 
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1712. 
17*18. 
1714. 
1715. 
1716. 
1717. 
1718. 
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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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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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1723. 

1724 

1725, 

1726. 

1727. 

1728. 

1729. 

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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Lord Ashburton, Aug. 18. 



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1749. 
1750. 
1751. 
1752. 
1753. 
1754. 
1755. 
1756. 
1757. 
1758. 
1759. 
1760. 
1761. 
1762. 
1763. 
1764. 
1765. 
1766. 
1767.' 
1768. 
1769. 
1770. 
1771. 
;! 1772. 
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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1778. 
1779. 
1780. 
1781. 
1782. 
1783. 
1784. 
1785. 
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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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 

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Maine, 


H. J. Anderson, 


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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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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. 



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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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OaVERNOBB OF THE SEVEBAI^ SifATBS, THBIR BALAAIfiS, ETC. 

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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--Q^ John Tylers 

^^^"' 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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Piercy Bysiilie Stolley, drowned in the Mediterraneau, 1^22. 



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69 
70 
71 
72 
73 
74 
75 
76 
77 
78 
79 
80 
81 
82 
83 
84 
85 
86 
87 
98 
89 

do 

91 
92 

93 

94 

95 

96 

97 

98 

99 

lOO 

lOl 

102 

103 

104 

105 

106 

107 

108 

109 

110 

111 

112 

113 

114 

115 

116 

117 

118 

119 

120 

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^. 
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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« 



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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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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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James Macpherson, 58. Mish foo.Dr.Thomas Reid, 87. 






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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^ ^ â–  ^ 

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. 



W. Mason, 73* .Wfe?;w- 
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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^ â–  

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 




1798. 



Jeremy Belknap, 54. Boflo 
Dr. Richard Parmer. 



Thomas Pemiant, 72. Pes pi. 
WiUiam Wales. 



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705 pyfAagorean* cAyZe* 

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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1799. 



Geo. Washin^tea, 67. 
William Melmoth. 



WridUuela. Galvani, 55. GcfHe, 
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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 
â–  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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