To this purpose the contents are singularly well adapted; for, from the single line proverb to a poem by Wordsworth, there is such a wide range of choice that the teacher need not resort to the questionable device of giving children fragments and bits of verse and prose to commit to memory.

You will therefore commit to memory various different portions of Milton's Paradise Lost which I shall select, and which must be repeated to me in their entirety without mistake on my return from my own hard-earned holiday.

Words which in the freshness of the morning he would have learned in a very few moments with ease, it is now simply out of his power to commit to memory.

[Footnote 5: Study is still the Player's word for commit to memory.]

"The doctrines of religion," said Beattie, "I had wished to impress on his mind, as soon as it might be prepared to receive them; but I did not see the propriety of making him commit to memory theological sentences, or any sentences which it was not possible for him to understand.

I beseech you and your dear friends to pray for us, that the celestial Comforter promised in the Scriptures, would vouchsafe to visit our hearts and warm them with his love; for without the aid of this Divine Light, even though we should commit to memory the Old and New Testament, it would avail us nothing; but rather tend to our greater condemnation in the sight of our Sovereign Judge.

He is quite a nice idiot, but, when Lord Valmond came, of course I talked as stiffly as possibly, and presently Lord George told him that he was singularly backward in copybook maxims, and that there was one he ought to write out and commit to memory, and it began with "Two's Company," upon which Lord Valmond stalked on in a rage.

Nothing can be more absurd than to compel young children to commit to memory mere abstract rules expressed in difficult and technical language.

Long afterwards, when he had become the greatest orator of modern times, he told how hard this thing had been for him at Exeter: "Many a piece did I commit to memory, and rehearse in my room over and over again.

Let me here give you a few maxims to commit to memory: Avoid and shun the sources of misery.

They not only read it, but commit to memory portions of it every day:the first lesson in the morning is an examination on some passage of scripture.

They not only read it, but commit to memory portions of it every day:the first lesson in the morning is an examination on some passage of scripture.

Anyhow, it is my intention to commit to memory, minute by minute, the least circumstance, and then, if it be possible, to jot down my daily impressions.

Let me here give you a few maxims to commit to memory: Avoid and shun the sources of misery.

But, as the general principles of grammar are common to all languages, and as the only successful method of learning them, is, to commit to memory the definitions and rules which embrace them, it is reasonable to suppose that the language most intelligible to the learner, is the most suitable for the commencement of his grammatical studies.

Did you ever read this anywhere, 'Commit to memory one hundred verses of the Bible or an equal amount of sacred literature, such as Thomas à Kempis'?" Hinpoha hung her head, still smiling.

Even women and children are repeating this, as if it were a lesson they seek to commit to memory.

I requested them to commit to memory the 23rd Psalm.

The boys were encouraged to commit to memory portions of Scripture, for which they received small rewards; and thus a spirit of emulation was created as to who should possess the greatest number of these.

Here they have been confined and kept from exercise and play, to study useless and unrelated facts and to commit to memory dry rules which are forgotten as soon as their minds are ready to retain anything worth while.

Besides, I have Uncle on my hands, and I have to commit to memory pages on color printing that run like this: "Fine as a single hair or swelling imperceptibly till it becomes a broken play of light and shade or a mass of solid black, it still flows, unworried and without hesitation on its appointed course.

(d.) Train the children to commit to memory the choicest passages of the Bible.

The design is not to have you commit to memory what the book contains, but to understand and digest itto incorporate it fully into your own mind, that it may come up in future life in such a form as you wish it for use.

Mr. Gilbanks also gave him elementary instruction; while his father made him commit to memory portions of the English poets.

Pupils would rather commit to memory the sentences than trouble themselves about reasons; but they will master reasons when they find they must.