The alphabetic, whereby children were taught the letter names and then memorised the spelling of each single word, has no supporters.

The new psaltery makes such memorising an extremely difficult feat and no obligation for such a repetition from memory can be imposed.

That old-time habit of memorising the arrangement of furniture in a room immediately on entering it had failed through disuse in course of years.

She helped me choose the points I would speak on, then I wrote out my entire speech which she corrected and I set about memorising it.

Dear M.The R.A. here memorised was George Dawe, whom I knew well and heard many anecdotes of, from DANIELS and WESTALL, at H. Rogers'sto each of them it will be well to send a Mag. in my name.

Learning a language is one thing and memorising an illogical system of visual imagesfor that is what reading ordinary English spelling comes tois quite another.

As often as Follett wakened through the night he saw him sitting there, sometimes reading what looked like a little old Bible, sometimes speaking aloud as if seeking to memorise a passage.

The brief summary of the interests of each place, and the many illustrations, may help to memorise the impressions obtained.

He can memorise at sight all the revolting contents of a swill-tub.

It must be memorised and carried across the frontier in the brain, for the searching process extends to the very skin of the traveller.