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Apposition
sequently when we are ill we are away from ease, because to be at ease is to be well. In this way, which is nothing more than a careful examination of objects, the names of persons, places, and things can be easily perceived, retained, and reproduced. In other words, they can be remembered.
By the same means speeches can be memorized; as,
When you come to a good book, you must ask yourself, "Am I inclined to work as an Australian miner would? Are my pickaxes and shovels in good order, and am I in good trim myself—and my sleeves well up to the elbows, and my breath good, and my temper?" And, keeping the figure a little longer, even at the cost of tiresomeness, for it is a thoroughly useful one, the metal you are in search of being the author's mind or meaning, his words are as the rock which you have to crush and smelt in order to get at it. And your pickaxes are your own care, wit, and learning; your smelting-furnace is your own thoughtful soul. Do not hope to get at any
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