How to Improve the Memory
words and arranging the thoughts in a sequence, the ideas are made plain to the understanding and the task of remembering made easy.
A sequence is a succession of events mentioned in the order of their occurrence; as,
I cannot sit tamely by, in humble, acquiescent silence, when reflections, which I know to be unjust, are cast on the faith and honor of Massachusetts. Had I suffered them to pass without admonition, I should have deemed that the disembodied spirits of her departed children, from their ashes mingled with the dust of every stricken field of the Revolution, from their bones mouldering to the consecrated earth of Bunker Hill,[1] of Saratoga,[2] of Monmouth,[3] would stand up in visible shape, before me, to cry shame on me, their recreant countryman.
—Caleb Cushing.
The three battles of the Revolutionary War, Bunker Hill, Saratoga,
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