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CHRONOLOGY
OF
The Roman Emperors.
IT may occur to the mind, in the contemplation of the following table and associations; that there will be some danger of confounding the English Kings, with the Roman Emperors, as the same symbols are the vehicles employed for recollecting both; but this the author is satisfied will not be the case, if learners give them a fair trial. If they commit the former well to memory first, they incur no risk. He cannnot answer for their complete success in separating them in their minds; if they proceed directly from the former to the latter, with only an imperfect impression of them on their memory; it will answer no good purpose to do so, either with or without this system. But he advises them, if they have rooms enough at their command, to use a distinct apartment, for each series of monarchs; their British, Roman, French, and German Rooms, will preserve a sufficient distinction, and prevent the possibility of confounding them. If they know their symbols well, they can transfer them to any room with perfect ease.—The same methods to be adopted in this, (and every similar occasion), as directed in the British chronology—"Associations with symbols and places."
