"Mnemonic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mnemonic devices prompt children to change rings to keep appointments, tie knots in the handkerchief, put shoes on the dressing-table, hide garments, associate faces with hoods, names with acts, things, or qualities they suggest; ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall
... we shall have occasion to refer will be, then, the two most important collections of Vedic hymns—the Rig Veda and the Atharva Veda; the Brahmanic literature, with the supplementary Upanishads, and the S[u]tras or mnemonic abridgments of religious and ceremonial rules; the legal texts, and the religious and theological portions of the epic; and the later sectarian writings, called Pur[a]nas. The great heresies, again, have their own special writings. Thus far we shall draw on the native ...
— The Religions of India - Handbooks On The History Of Religions, Volume 1, Edited By Morris Jastrow • Edward Washburn Hopkins
... the Prince's arm, and begged to be excused. But the latter would take no denial, and carried out the comedy to the end by giving the merchant the place of honor at his table, and dismissing him with the present of a fine pup of his favorite breed. Perhaps the animal acted as a mnemonic symbol, for Gregor was never afterwards accused ...
— Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home • Bayard Taylor
... or mnemonic device akin to the refrain was that sing-song species of repetend so ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers |
