. An improved system of mnemonics : or, Art of assisting the memory, simplified, and adapted to the general branches of literature, with a dictionary of words, used as signs of the arithmetical figures. for some of thecombinations are more prolific than others; but he thinkshe has succeeded as well as the nature of the letters willadmit, and the English language allow. He has attemptedvarious other classifications, but none of them were so suc-cessful as the present. He knows that some, which he could devise, might,at first view, appear more neat, but as power is superior toneatness, he abando
. An improved system of mnemonics : or, Art of assisting the memory, simplified, and adapted to the general branches of literature, with a dictionary of words, used as signs of the arithmetical figures. for some of thecombinations are more prolific than others; but he thinkshe has succeeded as well as the nature of the letters willadmit, and the English language allow. He has attemptedvarious other classifications, but none of them were so suc-cessful as the present. He knows that some, which he could devise, might,at first view, appear more neat, but as power is superior toneatness, he abandoned them.—The principle that governedhim was, to join the efficient with the inefficient letters ofthe alphabet; thus with T, which is found in a great manywords, he combined Q, that may be easily seen is lesscommon. With R and L, which are very powerful letters,he placed Z and J, that are not so.——Two letters of mid-dling power he joined together, as N and H; M and G,&c. &c.— The reader need not be told after this, that the af^si-milations he has given, were not to shew the reasons thatinfluenced him in choosing the consonants, but merely toassist the memory in retaining them. /improvedsystemof00cogl. 41
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