The art of memory. : A treatise useful for all, especially such as are to speak in public... / By Marius D'Assigny.

  • D'Assigny, Marius, 1643-1717.
Date:
1699
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    bea Faculty in the Soul, which thro neg- le& or otherwife may be ufelels 5 and it often happens that the Faculty is perfected by a conitant and continual Pragtice and Fiabit, wheras Slothfulnefs decays and ruins che moft excellent Ability. The third thing obfervablé. in Memory, is the feveral Acts | Lay produc’d by the Faculey, whicharlatt make | up aHabic. We thall find this Diftinctr- | on to be of fome\ule in the following }: Chapters. i Now the Seat of Memory is generally | gr acknowledged to be in the hinder part of the’ ] hho 4 Ales Head, which we call Occipat, in the third | / VA / bu ip Chole named Ventriculus, Puppies, or Cere- : Cit. bellam. For as all the Naturalifts are.ot } 1 Yoyraee opinion, that in the Brain there are three J ‘in hop WI Operations of the Soul, the Imagination, )} she | ia. % ’ Reafon, and Memory they have from the) 3 pep” — dixection of Experience, affigh’dto the two | j | Gt the two greater Clofets of the Brainy} and tothe Jatter the lefs and hindermoft, : Eos! need not bufy my felf to prove that} ai] che Functions of Life have their particu} lar Organs ; and the Soul acting litle orf}, nothing without the concurrence and affi-i jy; ance of the Body, our wife: Creator has} jij, ay appointed che feveral diftinét parts where thel i | Spirit is co move and act, to produce the dif-} oa Snags eae een! 8 — a ee, = STE cna gages es ae An can elatrc ng fering Actions of “Life; according to chatil | Sopp oldand approved faying of the Phyliciansy 3 lett! the Hiet of hud, el iN e | hae ea