The Secret of a Good MemoryD. Bogue, 1880 - 80 pages |
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... practical . To this end , I beg that everyone in- terested in the experiments detailed at pp . 22-26 will send me , under cover to the Publisher of this little book , the first rough papers employed in testing his own powers , and those ...
... practical . To this end , I beg that everyone in- terested in the experiments detailed at pp . 22-26 will send me , under cover to the Publisher of this little book , the first rough papers employed in testing his own powers , and those ...
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... practical use of the comparatively small store of facts and details of " information " with which he cares , or dares , to burden his memory . Such is a general view of the subject of memory , what it is and how it works . I propose in ...
... practical use of the comparatively small store of facts and details of " information " with which he cares , or dares , to burden his memory . Such is a general view of the subject of memory , what it is and how it works . I propose in ...
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... practical sug- gestions . To make the matter as plain as possible , it will be necessary to pass more than once over the same ground ; but the reader will forgive the repetition if the object is attained . To discover the secret of a ...
... practical sug- gestions . To make the matter as plain as possible , it will be necessary to pass more than once over the same ground ; but the reader will forgive the repetition if the object is attained . To discover the secret of a ...
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... practical difference be- tween knowing a thing and being able to remember it is sure to be brought home to the student in any branch of science , or the man of business , very early in his career . What precisely is the nature of this ...
... practical difference be- tween knowing a thing and being able to remember it is sure to be brought home to the student in any branch of science , or the man of business , very early in his career . What precisely is the nature of this ...
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... practical methods of developing the faculty it is proposed to train , to the highest attainable excel- lence , which , of course , will vary with the indi- vidual energy , intellectual force , and perseverance . CHAPTER III . WAYS OF ...
... practical methods of developing the faculty it is proposed to train , to the highest attainable excel- lence , which , of course , will vary with the indi- vidual energy , intellectual force , and perseverance . CHAPTER III . WAYS OF ...
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30 Coloured Plates 300 Woodcuts ADELAIDE NEILSON ascertain associated automatic faculty Balliol College Birds BOTANY brain cloth extra cloth gilt committing to memory connected consciousness Containing Crown 8vo cultivate DAVID BOGUE Demy 4to Demy 8vo desired to remember E. A. SOTHERN employed exercise experiment F.G.S. Illustrated fact Fcap FERNS Figures of Eighty formulæ H. J. BYRON habit Health Primers HENRY POWER ideas Illustrated with numerous impressions J. E. TAYLOR J. L. TOOLE JOHN KNIGHTAGE learning Lecture London MANUAL Martin's Place mental method mind NATURAL HISTORY numerous Illustrations numerous Woodcuts object paper particular persons phantoms picture Plain and Easy PLEASANT Published annually R. A. PROCTOR reader recall received recollection record remembering by sound Royal 16mo SCIENCE GOSSIP Second Edition Series SHILLING sight or sound sight-phantoms sight-writer sound-phantoms sound-writer Species squares storing super-royal 8vo taking-in thought tin-foil tion TRAFALGAR SQUARE Vols Volumes Woodcuts words writing from memory
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