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Such
a practice may perhaps have been of use to those
who, after an auction, have succeeded in stating
what object they had sold to each buyer, their statements being checked by the books of the money takers; a feat which it is alleged was performed by
Hortensius. It will, however, be of less service in
learning the various parts of a set speech. For
thoughts do not call up the same images as material
things, and a symbol requires to be specially invented
for them, although even here a particular place may
serve to remind us, as, for example, of some conversation that may have been held there. But how
can such a method grasp a whole series of connected words?
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