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Date: 1697
"St. Austin names Memory the Soul's Belly or Storehouse, or the Receptacle of the Mind, because it is appointed to receive and lay up as in a Treasury, those things that may be for our Benefit and Advantage."
preview | full record— D'Assigny, Marius (1643-1717)
Date: 1697
"Therefore Cicero tells us, in 3. de Oratore; Facilius ad ea qua visa sunt, quam adea qua auditasunt, Oculi Mentis feruntur: That the Eyes of the Understanding (and consequently of the Memory) are carried more easily to the things that are seen, than to those that are heard."
preview | full record— D'Assigny, Marius (1643-1717)