 | John Abercrombie - Mind and body - 1835 - 296 pages
...his memory. I am informed, through a gentleman who was intimately acquainted with him, that he could repeat correctly a long act of parliament, or any...point in any thing which he had read, he could do it>onlyAy repeating to himself the whole from the commencement till he reached the point which he wished... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...verses after having once read them. It is said that Dr. Leyden had so strong a memory, that he could repeat correctly a long Act of Parliament or any similar document after a single perusal. There is an anecdote of an English gentleman, whom the king of Prussia placed behind... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 376 pages
...verses after having once read them. It is said that Dr. Leyden had so strong a memory, that he could repeat correctly a long Act of Parliament or any similar document after a single perusal. There is an anecdote of an English gentleman, whom the king of Prussia placed behind... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 352 pages
...verses after having once read them. It is said that Dr. Leyden had so strong a memory, that he could repeat correctly a long Act of Parliament or any similar document after a single perusal. There is an anecdote of an English gentleman, whom the king of Prussia placed behind... | |
 | 1841 - 780 pages
...Dr. Abercrombie was informed by a gentleman who knew him well, that he could repeat correctly along act of parliament or any similar document after having once read it. But this faculty was rendered comparatively useless, and often positively injurious, by a total absence... | |
 | Evangelicalism - 1842 - 434 pages
...beginning to end, which the author of it could not do. It is said of the late Dr. Leyden, that he could repeat correctly a long act of parliament, or any similar document, after having once read it. I have heard of a man that committed to memory the whole Bible from beginning to end : and I have heard... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 594 pages
...verses after having once read them. It is said that Dr Leyden had so strong a memory, that he could repeat correctly a long act of parliament, or any similar document, after a single perusal. There is an anecdote of an English gentleman, whom the king of Prussia placed behind... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1859 - 926 pages
...before him. Klopstock, while a boy at school, could repeat the entire works of Homer. Dr. Leyden could repeat correctly a long act of Parliament, or any similar document, after having read it once. Complaint is made, that in the schools the memory is too exclusively cultivated, and... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Death - 1864 - 476 pages
...and promptly, to the end of the ode. It is said that Dr. Leyden had so strong a memory that he could repeat correctly a long Act of Parliament, or any similar document, after a single perusal. Woodfall's extraordinary power of reporting the debates in the House of Commons without... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Death - 1864 - 482 pages
...and promptly, to the end of the ode. It is said that Dr. Leyden had so strong a memory that he could repeat correctly a long Act of Parliament, or any similar document, after a single perusal. Woodfall's ' extraordinary power of reporting the debates in the House of Commons... | |
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When he was on one occasion congratulated by a friend on his remarkable power in this respect, he replied that, instead of an advantage, it was often a source of great inconvenience. This he explained by saying that when he wished to recollect a particular... 
