(1) Edward the Confessor, always fond of the Normans, had promised that
on his death his kingdom should go to Duke William of Normandy. (2)
William II. early directed a goldsmith to decorate his father's grave
with gold and silver ornaments. (3) Henry I. was called Beauclerc, or
fine Scholar. (4) Stephen had produced a false witness to swear that the
late king on his deathbed had named him (Stephen) as his heir. (5)
Henry II. revoked most of the grants of land that had been hastily made
during the late troubles. (6) Richard punished the people who had
befriended him against his father. (7) Arthur had the best right to the
throne, but John imprisoned and murdered him. (8) Henry III. was crowned
at the age of ten. "Third" tells _which_ Henry is meant. (9) Edward I.
declared--"I will go on, if I go on with no other follower than my
groom." (10) Gaveston was the king's comrade and favourite, and was
finally beheaded by the indignant barons. (11) Edward III. erected
Windsor Castle. (12) The king's poll-tax collector was killed by Wat
Tyler. (13) A successful Scottish war was this monarch's first
achievement. (14) Riotous Prince Hal became a spirited, valiant king.
(15) Henry VI. was only nine months old when his predecessor died. (16)
Edward IV., with aid of the Earl of Warwick, won the great battle at
Towton; 40,000 men were slain. (17) Edward V. was only thirteen years
old. The Lord Protector, Duke of Gloucester, threw him, with his
brother, into the Tower and caused them to be murdered. (18) Richard's
affected modesty is conspicuously brought out in Shakespeare's tragedy
of Richard III. (19) Henry VII., to quell forever the hostility of the
rival Roses, married Elizabeth of York, the daughter of Edward IV. (20)
The formula in this case is clearly justified by history. (21)
Edward VI. was but ten years old. Henry VIII. had provided in his will
that a council of sixteen should govern during Edward's minority. (22)
Mary was fond of her husband, who cared little for her, and unlucky in
her advisers. (23) Elizabeth showed the natural arbitrariness of her
disposition in her vetoes. In one year--1597--she refused the royal
assent to 48 bills passed by the Commons. (24) James I. was the first
Scottish king that reigned over England. (25) Charles I. lost his life
in the attempt to act independent of the Commons. (26) If anyone thinks
that Charles was not rightfully beheaded, he could make the phrase--(6)
{Ch}arles (4) w{r}ongfully (9) {b}eheaded. (27) The phrase is obviously
true. (28) The phrase gives the exact date of Richard Cromwell's
accession and the word "offspring" means Richard Cromwell. (29) A Junta
here means the "council." (30) Charles Second was called the "merry"
monarch. (31) Parliament at once voted James II. nearly two million
pounds sterling per annum for life. (32) William and Mary were
cooerdinate sovereigns. (33) Anne was truly "submissive" or easily
influenced. (34 and 35) Green intimates that George I. and George II.
hardly affected the course of events--the former followed the advice of
his ministers and the latter of his wife Caroline. (36) George III. was
emphatically a sovereign. (37) George IV. had tried ineffectually to get
rid of his wife; her death at last released him. (38) William IV. had
been a midshipman in the navy. (39) Victoria has certainly proved
herself to be a "Model Queen."
(3) THE PUPIL MUST POSSESS SUCH A FAMILIARITY WITH THE LAWS OF IN., EX.,
AND CON., NOT MERELY IN THEIR THEORETIC AND ABSTRACT ASPECTS, BUT IN
THAT PRACTICAL CHARACTER AND WORKING POWER OF THEM WHICH I TEACH, THAT
HE CAN INSTANTLY APPLY THEM TO THE EVERY-DAY AFFAIRS AND ORDINARY
OCCURRENCES AND EVENTS OF LIFE.
If you know that the number of square[E] miles in the area of the State
of New York runs into _thousands_, and you wish to remember that the
_exact number_ of thousands is 47, you could accomplish this object if
you found a word which spells 47, and is at the same time connected by
In., Ex., or Con. to New York. You try the varieties of Inclusion; and
in synonymous Inclusion you find 47 in the word "Yo{r}{k}" itself, the
"y" having no figure value, and "r" standing for 4, and "k" for 7; thus
you cannot _see_ the name of New York or _think of it_ without having
conclusive evidence of the number of thousands of square miles the State
contains.
[E] See Lippincott's Gazetteer, p. 1573.
The title of a subject, the name or description of an event or date, can
always be safely abridged or bracketed in part in the formula, as 47
[New] Yo{r}{k}. But no one could imagine that "York" in this connection
[47 thousand square miles] means any of the towns or country seats of
the United States which are called "York." If the context makes an
otherwise indefinite thing definite, it is sufficient.
_Analytic date and number words do not have to be memorised._--Seeing is
believing, and, in this case, _remembering_ too. If you thoroughly
master my system you can find, in most cases, analytic date and number
words without any difficulty, and by means of them you can remember
_thousands_ of dates and sets of figures, when without the system you
could have remembered only five or ten of them.
Suppose in your haste you failed to notice that "York" spells 47, and
you then proceed to try Inclusion by Genus and Species; regarding York
as the general word, you would find _New_ York as a species or kind of
York; the same with Yorkshire, Yorktown, York Minster, etc. In this way
you would, if your mastery of the Figure Alphabet were perfect, scarcely
fail to notice that York spells 47; but if you fail, you then try
Inclusion by Whole and Part, and run over the political divisions of the
State until you come to {R}o{ck}land County, and there you find in its
first two consonants the letters "r" and "ck" (the equivalent of "k" in
sound). These consonants spell 47. You would find the same consonants in
the County of He{r}{k}imer.
Suppose, however, that from unfamiliarity with the Figure Alphabet, or
from want of considerable practice, you do not succeed in noticing that
{R}o{ck}land or He{r}{k}imer contains the number 47, you try Inclusion by
Abstract and Concrete, and regarding the State of New York as the
Concrete, and the Abstract or characterizing epithet "{r}o{ck}y" as
applicable to New York, you would then find in that word "{r}o{ck}y" the
number 47.
If you did fail, you would try Exclusion, and you would find nothing
which is the antithesis of the area of New York. You might find,
however, a _weak form_ of Exclusion if you consider that the area is the
surface, and what is below the surface as the opposite of it. In the
latter case you would find in the words "E{r}ie {C}anal," which is a
great artificial channel running through a part of the State, the
letters "r" and "c" hard, which spell 47. A more exact Exclusion might
be found in the word "{r}i{ng}," which spells 47. For if we consider the
shape of the boundary of New York we would see that in no vague sense a
ring, as a circle, is the opposite of it.
But suppose that from a chronic absent-mindedness or an overworked
brain, or downright bad physical health or insufficient knowledge of the
system, you failed to see 47 in any of the foregoing cases, you would
try Concurrence. Considering that the State of New York is largely
agricultural, you would find that the implement of farming known as a
"{R}a{k}e" would spell 47; this would be a case of Concurrence. In a
political sense, the word "{r}i{ng}s" gives 47, as New York has been
celebrated for them.
All that the student requires is _one_ analytic word. I have gone
through the varieties of Inclusion, through Exclusion, and Concurrence,
merely to show _how to find_ analytic words and not because more than
one word was necessary.
According to the census report of 1890, the number of square miles of
_land_ in the State of New York is 47,620, or (4) Yo{r}k's (7) A{c}res
(6) {S}urely (2) {N}ot (0) {S}ubmerged; the number of square miles of
_land and water_ in it is 49,170, or (4) Yo{r}k's (9) {P}lains (1)
Wi{th} (7) A{c}companying (0) {S}ealets.