By attention ideas are registered on the memory.
1319
An old deacon was accustomed to offer this prayer: "Help us to forget what we ought not to remember, and to remember what we ought not to forget."
—Weekly Paper.
1320
What nicer, what sweeter, than—
The remembrance of a past in boyhood's village days without regret!
1321
So many we find to be well fed but ill taught.
1322
The Greatest Men Arose from the People.—The greatest scholars, poets, orators, philosophers, warriors, statesmen, inventors, and improvers of the arts, arose from the people. If we had waited till courtiers had invented the arts of printing, clockmaking, navigation, and a thousand others, we should probably have continued in darkness till this hour.