Ceredo crescent. [volume] (Ceredo, Va.) 1857-1861, 1858-05-15
CEREDO, WAYNE co. va, MAY IS.

able. School girls arc frequently stuffed with
nursery rhymes, and snatchcs from fashionable
poetry which they retain with so much ease, aud
wear SO loosely, as to be almost marvellous; bu,
these sequircments only appear pitifal to the
old scholar, whose a;tainmcnts are for service
Asinstanees of p:odigious memories, the cases
OF Thcn.stocles, th, Athcpiau statesman; Of Luz
cius Scipio, who could tell the names OF his
whole array, were cited. Bonapar;e, though he
could nc: retain n single Alcxardriue line Of po-
etry, would never forge; his army returns
Grotius was once present at q review of troops
when he was asked by the prince OF Orange if
be could repeat the names he had just heard at
the call Of the muster roll lie went through
the list. Frederick Tie Great knew every mill
tary post IN his Kingdom, the canuons in the
public arsenals, and The place OF every bottle in
his cellar. Sir Thomas Browne had an Eyyp-
tian memory in vastness.
When We IN individual whose memory
keeps pace with cur own il czcites no notice;
but If lac can remember what VIC cannot We look
upon him with respect. IL is incxplicable where
the fragments OF information, which conc to
tnnd when they are wanted, are kept. Nobody
has yet been able to turn himself inside out
quickly enough TO decide the problem.
One striking provision OF the memory Is that
beautifully foTSetwha; should not bc rene mbered.
And though the general rule las been euunei.
aied by the authority Of Quintillian tha, the re-
collection Is in proportion TO the genius We: q
deiec'ive memory l. not demonstratiyc proof of
a lack of genius. Sir Isaac Newton. when gucs.
toned As to past discovery OF his own hcsitated
and was confused; We; hc could invent a reason
on the spot, If demanded
Some things everybody remembers. 4 cred
itor is in slight danger Of forgetting his debtor,
and mankind generally keep an insult frell-l
Old Ben johnson used To say il was hard 10 FOR
get the last kick. IL = stated that tie Lounda-
ries between towns we're formerly established by
whipping school boy on the site.
The memory l. alive. ia retains it, power
during sleep. nights pa-siyiiy of physical
aetisity frequently explains die ult and tangled
questions. Thomas Moore. the poet wrote ou a
certain occasion poem, which he carried about
IN his memory for several days before copying
u. lie occasionally male meutal Interrogation
to see IL the verse, were still retained. Poets
usually have reicn.iVc minds.
Memory dcpsad, upon the insight IL this I
latter quality be strong and pcnotrative, then !
the mind will po.css corresponding degree Of \
ss.eat.vsse---. -D~sSzd -lseE b< is.s4S. ~
IT you would kssow how short The ,Dsuery ofI
mer psopi- really is. rrad The populsr works ef
10 day one year from this tirae. and you will be
regarded as a perfect Sphinx Of information.
Memory like music, unuihii.ic- tiuIe. IL ex-
i-.s in a Wild state in children. i; connects an-
eient with modern existence, aud enables the in.
dividusl 60 live uorihily on the earth. Memory
Is, Iva fact the as~r-ure OF personal identity.
We sometimes imagine that thought. are
new. because cannot tell how they have becn
fixed ia the intellect. But there j. very little
newne-s unGcr the sGa. NUeh OF the science
or the pre.cn; time has IT,. roots Car back ia the
past. I.syards rrsc1rchc. at Min 'veh cxhumcd
a civilization OF more ancient date shan the Mn.
este.