Sue Anderson
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807 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
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was for the safety of my country.
Politics, therefore, became my favourite study.
and I soon got acquainted with the passing news of the day.
A late writer in speaking of memory calls it the storehouse of the mind.
But it has often been compared to a well constructed arch on which the more weight is laid, the stronger it becomes.
This I found to be the case with mine, and
For the more I committed to it, the more I found it was capable of receiving and retaining.
In what manner ideas of extrinsic objects and notions of certain relations can be preserved in the mind by
It is impossible to determine, but of this we are sure that the thing is so, though the manner be unknown to us.
As ideas and recollections are merely immaterial things which can in no wise partake of the known properties of matter which
So the receptacle in which they lodge must be of a similar nature.
That matter and spirit are united, we have no reason to doubt but
For the pleasures which arise from memory in the moment of reflection.
are evidently operative on the body.
Inasmuch as its motions and gestures are expressive of the inward feelings of the mind.
As the memory, therefore, is more or less capacious, as the store of ideas laid up there is great or little.
And as those ideas are pleasing or unpleasing in themselves, so the recollection of them is either powerful or weak, either pleasing or painful.
As my taste always inclined to literature and the knowledge of things valuable in themselves, consequently the remembrance of them is a never failing source of amusement to me and
Whether I be found in the void waste or in the city full
It was now indeed that I was able to appreciate the pleasures of memory in a superior degree.
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