Word: thesaurus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...edition of Roget's "Thesaurus of English words and phrases, classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition," is furnished to members at 95 cents per copy...
...edition of Roget's "Thesaurus of English words and phrases, classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition," is furnished to members at 95 cents per copy...
...edition of Roget's "Thesaurus of English words and phrases, classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition," is furnished to members at 95 cents per copy...
...finally becomes so timid that he hardly dares to write a line, unless surrounded by dictionaries, grammars, rhetorics, a "thesaurus," books of synonyms, etc. His spontaneity disappears; he looks upon originality as something for which he must never make the slightest attempt, and he comes to think he has attained the ideal when his writing reads like a catalogue, and when he has acquired a style, which, from its lack of individuality, is no style...