"For this Similitude will certainly imprint the Thing or Person so in our Mind, that if we do casually forget, we shall the more easily recover the lost Idea; because the Idea that we have already in Memory, and that hath a resemblance and relation to that which is absent in some known Particular, will lead our Fancy to it again."
— D'Assigny, Marius (1643-1717)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
J. Darby
Date
1697
Metaphor
"For this Similitude will certainly imprint the Thing or Person so in our Mind, that if we do casually forget, we shall the more easily recover the lost Idea; because the Idea that we have already in Memory, and that hath a resemblance and relation to that which is absent in some known Particular, will lead our Fancy to it again."
Metaphor in Context
2. For the better remembring of things, we ought to compare them with those things with which we are familiar, or best acquainted, and that have a resemblance with them, either in Syllables, in Quantity, in Office, Imployment, &c. For this Similitude will certainly imprint the Thing or Person so in our Mind, that if we do casually forget, we shall the more easily recover the lost Idea; because the Idea that we have already in Memory, and that hath a resemblance and relation to that which is absent in some known Particular, will lead our Fancy to it again.
(p. 68)
(p. 68)
Categories
Provenance
Google Books
Citation
Four entries in ESTC: 1697, 1699, 1699?, and 1706.
Text from The Art of Memory. A Treatise useful for all, especially such as are to speak in Publick., 3rd edition, corrected (London: Printed by J. Darby, 1706). <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
07/13/2013
