learning by heart
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This facility of learning by heart, and the habit of dreamy recitation, made me very familiar with the Bible and very apt with its phrases.
From Annie Besant An Autobiography by Besant, Annie Wood
In order not to be always thinking of him, she often diverted her mind by the labor of learning by heart the aforesaid part.
From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul
Then slowly, as one learning by heart who looks not about him, he took his way towards Sallertaine and on from thence to Chalons.
From Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field by Bazin, Ren?
The chief, but not the only, merit of learning by heart as an exercise is that it compels the mind to concentrate.
From Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women by Bennett, Arnold
"But what's the story to be, master Shanks?" asked Tom Cutter, "I can't learn a long one; I never was good at learning by heart."
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various
