 | Peter Mark Roget - 1853 - 500 pàgines
...THE present Work is intended to supply, with respect to the English language, a desideratum hitherto unsupplied in any language; namely, a collection of...of an ordinary dictionary, is simply to explain the meaning of words; and the problem of which it professes to furnish the solution may be stated thus:—The... | |
 | Peter Mark Roget - 1854 - 506 pàgines
...The present work is intended to supply, with respect to the English language, a desideratum hitherto unsupplied in any language ; namely, a collection...of an ordinary dictionary is simply to explain the meaning of words; and the problem of which it professes to furnish the solution may be stated thus... | |
 | Peter Mark Roget - 1854 - 492 pàgines
...The present work is intended to supply, with respect to the English language, a desideratum hitherto unsupplied in any language ; namely, a collection...of an ordinary dictionary is simply to explain the meaning of words; and the problem of which it professes to furnish the solution may be stated thus:... | |
 | Arnold Guyot - 1855 - 368 pàgines
...just celebrity. It Is intended to supply, with respect to the English language, a desideratum hitherto unsupplied in any language, namely, a collection of...according to the ideas which they express. The purpose of a dictionary is simply to explain the meaning of words—the word being given, to find its signification,... | |
 | William Whewell - 1855 - 444 pàgines
...celebrity. It Is intended to supply, with respect to the English language, a desideratum hitherto unsupplicd in any language, namely, a collection of the words...according to the ideas which they express. The purpose of a dictionary Is simply to explain the meaning of words —the word being given, to find Its signification,... | |
 | Arnold Guyot - 1855 - 360 pàgines
...just celebrity. It Is intended to supply, with respect to the English language, a desideratum hitherto unsupplied in any language, namely, a collection of...Idiomatic combinations peculiar to it, arranged, not m alphabetiad order, as they are In a dictionary, but according to the ideas which they express. The... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pàgines
...Just celebrity. It Is Intended to supply, with respect to the English language, a desideratum hitherto unsupplied in any language, namely, a collection of...idiomatic combinations peculiar to it, arranged, not ID alphabetical order, as they are In a dictionary, but according to the ideas which they express.... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pàgines
...celebrity. It Is Intended to supply, with respect to the English language, a desideratum hitherto unsupplled In any language, namely, a collection of the words...Idiomatic combinations peculiar to It. arranged, not In alplutbstical order, as they are In a dictionary, but according to the Meas which they express. The... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Smith, Samuel Kneeland - 1855 - 474 pàgines
...just celebrity. It Is intended to supply, with respect to the English language, a desideratum hitherto unsupplied in any language, namely, a collection of the words it contains, and'of the idiomatic combinations peculiar to it, arranged, not in alphabetical order, as they are... | |
 | Justin Rudolph Loomis - 1856 - 236 pàgines
...just celebrity. It Is Intended to supply, with respect to the English language, a desideratum hitherto unsupplied in any language, namely, a collection of...according to the ideas which they express. The purpose of a dictionary Is simply to explain the meaning of words — the word being given, to find Its signification,... | |
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intended to supply with respect to the English language a desideratum heretofore unsupplied in any language ; namely, a collection of the words it contains and of the idiomatic combinations peculiar to it, arranged not in alphabetical order as they are... 
