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I will tell you when we meet of her entree with Sir Simon Bradstreet, and I will tell you of Honora's treading on the parrot at Mrs. Westby's party, and I will tell you of Fenaigle and his ABC. I think him very stupid. Heaven grant me the power of forgetting his Art of Memory. To C.S. EDGEWORTH. BLACK CASTLE, May 10, 1815.
Fenaigle divides the universe into houses, which contain rooms, each having four walls with nine panels, and each panel bearing an emblem. A pharos on a mountain will tell the name of "Phar-a-mond" in Pâris's system; and, according to Allevy's directions, by placing above a mirror, which signifies 4, a bird 2, and a hoop 0, we shall obtain 420, the date of that prince's accession.
They wanted to read the originals Gregory of Tours, Monstrelet, Commines, all those whose names were odd or agreeable. But the events got confused through want of knowledge of the dates. Fortunately they possessed Dumouchel's work on mnemonics, a duodecimo in boards with this epigraph: "To instruct while amusing." It combined the three systems of Allevy, of Pâris, and of Fenaigle.
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