A CONCLUDING REMARK.

If the pupil has painstakingly reviewed this entire work, let him for the next three months, whenever he wishes to fix anything in mind, not apply the methods of the system to it, but concentrate his thoughts upon it with the utmost intensity so that his improved power of assimilation will seize upon it with an unreleasing grasp, and, then, when the three months period has passed, he will find that he has consolidated the Habit of Attention and Memory. [←ToC]

FOOTNOTES:

  1. These followers make a great boast of learning a series of suggestive words in pairs and without interfering with the mind’s action in doing so, when they are clearly indebted to Thomas Hallworth for this inadequate method, yet they never have the grace to acknowledge their indebtedness.
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  3. See rules on [page 72].
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  5. Gouraud said: “Satan may relish coffee pie.”
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  7. Pupils who have a poor ear for sounds sometimes fail to note when “n” sounds like “ng” and so means 7 instead of 2. Let them study the words “ringer” (474), “linger” (5774), and “ginger” (6264). The first syllable of “linger” rhymes with the first of “ringer” and not with the first of “ginger;” it rhymes with “ring” and not with “gin;” and if the first syllable of “ringer” is 47, the first of “linger” must be 57; but the second syllable of “linger” is “ger,” while the second syllable of “ringer” is only “er.” So “linger” is pronounced as if spelled “ling-ger,” the “n” sounds like “ng.” “Ringer” is pronounced “ring-er,” and “ginger” as if spelled “gin-ger.”
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  9. Those who were in office more than four years were re-elected for a second term. The second term always began four years after the beginning of the first term.
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  11. Those who were Presidents for less than four years died in office and were succeeded by Vice-Presidents. President Lincoln was murdered forty days after the commencement of his second term of office, when Vice-President Johnson became the 17th President.
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  13. See Lippincott’s Gazetteer, p. 1573.
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  15. No one supposes that Butler really stole spoons.
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  17. Lord Elgin, the present Viceroy, gave Prof. Loisette H. E.’s patronage when the Professor lectured in Calcutta. As his system is the foe of all artificial methods, it is par excellence the “Natural” System.
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  19. The “New Memory-Aiding French Vocabulary” by Albert Tondu, published by Hachett et Cie, London, in 1881, is a somewhat similar work to Charles Turrell’s.
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  21. In some English schools the first syllable in “panis” sounds “pan,” in others “pain.” If an English word derived from a foreign word (or from the same root) occurs to you, use it; but do not spend time hunting for derivations. Unfamiliar words are no help; do not think the word “panification” will help you to “panis,” because it is an English word meaning “bread-making,” and you are an Englishman. You would be much wiser to try to remember the English “panification” by the aid of the Latin “panis,” than vice-versa, that is, if any mortal ever does want to remember that pedantic dictionary word.
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  23. One of the meanings of “Salient” is “to force itself on the attention.” Recall his threat when coughed down on the occasion of his maiden speech in the House of Commons. “You will hear me” (18)05.
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  25. It is sufficient to indicate the figure 9, as we know that it could not have been the year 9 of the Christian Era, and as it was somewhere about the beginning of this century, the figure 9 makes an indefinite impression definite and exact.
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