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HOUSE OF STUART
No. Names Dates of Accession Symbols Technical Words
44 James I. 1,603 Zara Dismay
45 Charles I. 1,625 Ariel Denial
The Commonwealth from 1,649 Zaida Droop
Doves
to the Restoration of
46 Charles II. 1,660
47 James II. 1,685 Yarico Avowal
48 William III. & Queen Mary 1,689 Arab Dawpie
49 Anne 1,702 Europa Cousin
THE BRUNSWICK FAMILY
50 George the First 1,714 Acquire
51 George the Second 1,727 Eolus Choice
52 George the Third 1,760 Codes

This table contains the names of the respective monarchs, the periods of their accession to the throne, the symbols with which they are to be associated, and the technical words of the dates. We shall now present the associations necessary to be committed to memory.

As learners will derive considerable advantage throughout the whole course of this system, by endeavouring to form pictures that their minds can fancy; wherever an op portunity offers in these tables, the names of individuals, as well as the words of the dates, will be represented by sensible objects; well knowing, that they are calculated to impress the mind more forcibly than mere words, or abstract ideas, that we cannot embody; the students are therefore recommended to avail themselves of all those aids which a little experience will prove of such advantage to them. For instance, if Egbert, the first of our monarchs,

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