An Improved System of Mnemonics/Address

Although Mnemonics has the authority of venerable antiquity, and the sanction of distinguished scholars to recommend them, yet the revival of the system is so recent, that it may be truly said to be but in its infancy.—This treatise therefore should be viewed with similar feelings to those that are excited, in witnessing the first efforts of a child, to walk or to speak.

The indulgence of the reader is requested in the preface—the assistance of the students in this address. The author, anxious to render this system still more useful and worthy of public support, requests the aid of those who apply it. Their adaptation of it to science, or to any branch of education—their associations; comments; improvements, &c. if sent to him will be gratefully received.

Notwithstanding his care in the selection of dates, errors may have been overlooked, which, if known to him in time, can be noticed in the second volume.

The chronological dates are from Blair, with the exception of those attached to the Lord Lieutenants of Ireland, the greater part of which are from Trusler, from whom the author has also taken the genealogy of the Scottish monarchs, but their dates are from Blair.

The second volume of Mnemonics is in forwardness, and will be soon published: the whole system is intended to be comprised in three volumes; but the reader will soon perceive, that the present volume requires no future part to elucidate any of the subjects to which it is applied.

​In the succeeding volumes, he intends to introduce the following subjects:

General Geography—The adaptation of the Mnemonical arrangement to it fully explained, and associations given for all the places of consequence on the Globe, in degrees of Longitude and Latitude; with a large map laid down upon the plan of the rooms.

Particular Geography—with assimilations for every town in England, arranged in its respective County—the Longitudes and Latitudes, in degrees and minutes of the county towns associated; also the population of each county, and the distances in miles, from the metropolis, of the principal towns in the kingdom—with a map of England, suitably divided.

Astronomy—an easy mode presented of remembering the precise situation of the various stars, in degrees of right ascension and north declination;—diameters and distances of Planets, &c.

The Statistics of the various nations given; their population, revenue, products, commerce, government, military and naval power, number of square miles, &c. associated.

General History synchronized—its principal facts and dates assimilated.

Daily Occurrences—Combinations presented for months and days.

Multiplication—the mode of multiplying eight or ten figures in the mind, by a similar number, by the aid of symbols, without paper or slate.

Poetry, Prose, Sciences, Languages, &c. &c.

And the Mnemonical Dictionary, continued to No. 1000.

Letters addressed to the Author, at Messrs. Cradock and Joy's, will be forwarded to him.