"In the places thus appropriated to the artificial Memory (supposing them the apartments of the house) there would be moveables; as statues and pictures in one warlike weapons in another, tables and couches in a third: or, if they did not admit of such furniture, it would be easy for the orator to allot to each place (whatever it was) a certain number of symbols, or figures, or names, ranged in a certain manner."
— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell ... and W. Creech
Date
1783
Metaphor
"In the places thus appropriated to the artificial Memory (supposing them the apartments of the house) there would be moveables; as statues and pictures in one warlike weapons in another, tables and couches in a third: or, if they did not admit of such furniture, it would be easy for the orator to allot to each place (whatever it was) a certain number of symbols, or figures, or names, ranged in a certain manner."
Metaphor in Context
In the places thus appropriated to the artificial Memory (supposing them the apartments of the house) there would be moveables; as statues and pictures in one warlike weapons in another, tables and couches in a third: or, if they did not admit of such furniture, it would be easy for the orator to allot to each place (whatever it was) a certain number of symbols, or figures, or names, ranged in a certain manner. And thus, the subdivisions of the several heads of his harangue, and even particular sentiments in each subdivision, might be imprinted on his mind by a similar mode of arrangement; the moveables, figures, or symbols, being disposed in a certain order, that order fixed in the Memory, and particular subdivisions and sentiments associated with them.
(II.iii, p. 24)
(II.iii, p. 24)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
At least 2 entries in ESTC (1783).
Beattie, James. Dissertations Moral and Critical (London: Printed for Strahan, Cadell, and Creech, 1783). Facsimile-Reprint: Friedrich Frommann Verlag, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 1970. <Link to Google Books>
Beattie, James. Dissertations Moral and Critical (London: Printed for Strahan, Cadell, and Creech, 1783). Facsimile-Reprint: Friedrich Frommann Verlag, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 1970. <Link to Google Books>
Theme
Artificial Memory; Inwardness
Date of Entry
07/25/2005
