learning by heart
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It has unfortunately become fashionable to inveigh against the necessary labour of learning by heart the essential principles of grammar, as a useless and intolerable drudgery.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
She left off reading Maeterlinck, borrowed books on farming from Axel, and eagerly studied them, learning by heart before breakfast long pages concerning the peculiarities of her two chief products, potatoes and pigs.
From The Benefactress by Elizabeth
As a boy he showed an extraordinary fondness for collecting and learning by heart the legends and old-time ballads which were current in that part of Scotland where he was born.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 by Various
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
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
