128 THE IMPROVEMRNT Or Tar SIIND. by bringing a drunken -man into their company, and shelving them what a beast he had made of himself. Such visible and sensible forms of instruction, will urake long and useful impres- sions upon the memory. Children may be taught to remember-many things in a way of 'sport and play. Some young creatures have learnt their let-. ters and syllables, and the pronouncing and spelling of words, by having them pasted or written upon many little flat tabletsor dies. Some have been taught vocabularies of different lan- guages, .having a word in one tongue written on one side of . these tablets, and thesame word in another tongue on the other side of them. There might be also many eiatertaining contri -, vances for -the instruction of children in several things relating to geometry,geography, and astronomy, in such alluring and illu- sory-methods, which would make a most agreeable and lasting impression on their minds. 6.- The memory of useful things may receive considerable aid if they are thrown into verse: for the numbers and mea- sures, and rhyme, according to -the poesy of different languages have -a considerable influence upon mankind, both to make them Psecive with more ease the things proposed to-their observation, enel preserve them longer in their remembrance. How many are there of thecommon aflhirs of human life, which have been taught in early years by the help of rhyme, and have been like nails fastened in a sure place and -rivetted by daily use ? :So the number of the days -of each -month are engrasen on the memoryof thousands by these four lines : Thirty days have September, June and April and Novernber; February twenty-eight alone, :And :all 7the rest have thirty -one :. So lads have been taught frugality by surveying and judg- ing of their own expellees by these three lines : Compute thepence butt ofone day's expense, So many pounds and angels, groats and pence Are spent in one whole year's circumference. For the number of days -in a year is three hundred sixty- five, which number of pence make one pound, one angel, one groat, and one penny. So, have miles of health been prescribed in the book called Schola Salernitana, and many sr person has preserved himself doubtless from evening gluttony, and the pains and diseases consequent upon it, .by these two lines : Ex magna rano stomacteo fit maximapana ; (Itsis noete Levis, 'Sit titiCasa berms.
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