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

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    the Mother of. Wifdom, the common Nurfe of Knowledg and Virtue, as the Poét very well has-exprefs’d it : But as thefé Lines are defign’d for the benefit and incouragement of their Memo- ries chiefly who are to appear in the Pul- pit, or at the Bar, to {peak in the Audience of the People; I need nor tell them with via, That there is no Abiliry more. ufefal Life to what is {fpoken,. and makes a deeper impreflion in the Minds of men; it awa- kens the dulleft Spirits, and caufes them to receive a Difcourfe moré kindly than other- wife; it adds a Grace, and an extraordina- ry Excellency both:to the-Perfon and his Oration, and is the greareft Ornament of that part of Rhetoric that we commonly name Pronuncyatio. So that if there is any thing worthy to be efteem’d or valued in that Art, fo ufeful in a; Commonwealth, tis all borrow’d from Memory. alone ; which gives the greateft weight and efficacy to the Words that are fpoken. Ie is re- ported of -Ai/chines, that when he came to Rhodes, he read to’ the Inhabitants a famous Oration ar ¥ fe Oe enstrenkexaapesns BS Sa TE ERT EY i sani] aslusbeAcZBT Eitan ifm tenn GNSS ES eroimeaRT Sicerciacoten - . a! =. a cn eeaen. mes Sein alee ARATE AR as ERTL, so Re a St De ee ela