learning by heart

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For the teaching of the conventionalities—reading, writing, and arithmetic—as well as for the learning by heart of names, sentences, &c., it suffices, but not for any scientific culture.

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)

"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

Those who exert ingenuity as well as memory in learning by heart, may not, perhaps, associate sounds with so much expedition, but they will have the power of recollection in a greater degree.

From Practical Education, Volume II by Edgeworth, Maria

She was learning by heart her scene from Shakespeare, when her mother suddenly put her head in at the door and said, "Diphtheria!"

From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Schubin, Ossip

The clergyman walked backwards and forwards, learning by heart from the written sheets he held in his hand.

From In God's Way A Novel by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne