Show MEMORIES carious curious examples of whit what this faculty cf f man hath accomplished from spare moments there was a corsican boy who could rehearse words whether sense or nonsense as they were dictated and then repeat them in the reversed order without making a single mistake A physician about sixty years 8 ao 0 could repeat tho the whole of 4 paradise lost without making a st mistake although he had not read it for twenty years euler the great mathematician when ho be became blind could repeat the whole of Virgil aneid 11 eneid and could remember the first line and the last liu ainu of every page of the particular edition which he had been been accustomed to read before he became blind one kind of retentive memory may be considered as the result of sheer work a determination toward one particular achievement without rele reference rence either to cultivation or to memory on other subjects this is frequently shown by persons iu human life in regard to the bible an old beggar man at stir stirling ing known fifty years ago as blind alick afforded an instance orthis of this he knew the whole of the bible by heart insomuch that if a sentence was read to him he could name the hook book chapter and verse or if the book chapter and verse were named he be could give the exact words A gentleman to test him repeated a verse purposely making one verbal inaccuracy alick it hesitated esita tid named the place where the passage was to be found but at the same time pointed out the verbal error the fame same gentleman asked him t to 0 r repeat the ninetieth verse of the steve seventh rith chapter of the book hook of numbers alick almost instantly replied there is no euch such verse that chapter has only eighty nine verses Gas had bad acquired by heart GOO Latin Catin verses an and d iu order to give hii hi memory exercise he was in the habit babit daily of reciting verses from different languages |