Show WONDERFUL FEATS some minds have a for ina certain clashes ol 01 among those who have performed great feats of memory cassells family magazine mentions dr fuller author of the worthies of england he could repeat another man s sermon after hearing it once and could repeat five hundred words in an unknown language after hearing them twice he one day undertook to walk from temple bar to the farthest end of cheapside and to repeat on his return every sign on either side of the way in the order of their occurrence and he did it easily lu such feats as this the eye plays a chief part yet blind people also have good memories bev BJ johns chaplain of the mind asylum london testified that a large number of pupils learn the psalter and that one young man was there who could repeat not only the whole of the one hundred and fifty of the prayer book psalms and a large number of metrical dsalma and hymns as well as a considerable amount of modern poetry including goldsmiths deserted village but the whole of mil tons paradise lost with marginal notes and a biography lord macaulay on one occasion repeated to himself the whole of paradise lost while crossing the irish channel at another tune waiting in a cambridge coffeehouse coffee house for a post chaise he he picked up a country newspaper containing two political pieces one the reflections of an exile and the other a parody on a welsh ballad looked them once through never gave them a further thought for forty years and then repeated them without the cliance of a single word Macau lays mind some one has said was like a dredging net which took in all that it encountered both bood and bad nor ever seemed to feel the burden very much unlike a dredging net and more like a strainer are the minds of some other persons who carefully select what they will retain or have a natural facility for remembering special classes of facts george bidder for figures sir W scott for verses mezzo fanti for languages |