 | Peter Mark Roget - 1879 - 776 pàgines
...Work is intended to supply, with respect to the English language, a desideratum hitherto misapplied in any language; namely, a collection of the words...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... | |
 | 1882 - 846 pàgines
...purpose of this work is to supply, with respect to the English language, a desideratum hitherto unsupphed in any language; namely, a collection of the words...the idiomatic combinations peculiar to it, arranged according to the ideas they express, rather than in the alphabetical order of a dictionary. The first... | |
 | Peter Mark Roget - 1882 - 754 pàgines
...supply, with respect to the English language, a desideratum hitherto unsupplied in any language ; namely, »collection of the words it contains and of the idiomatic combinations peculiar to it, arranged, not iu alphabetical order as they are in a Dic-tionary, but according to the ideas which they express.*... | |
 | Peter Mark Roget, John Lewis Roget - 1883 - 750 pàgines
...Work is intended to supply, with respect to the English language, a desideratum hitherto misapplied in any language; namely, a collection of the words...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... | |
 | 1900 - 340 pàgines
...to supply a collection of the words and the idiomatic combinations peculiar to the English language; arranged, not in alphabetical order as they are in...dictionary, but according to the ideas which they express. How royally this book has fulfilled its purpose is shown by its rapidly succeeding editions. We are... | |
 | Alice Bertha Kroeger - 1904 - 124 pàgines
...271 p. O. Bost. De Wolfe, [pref. 1852-79]. $3. 424 " A collection of words of the English language and of the idiomatic combinations peculiar to it, arranged not in alphabetical order, . . . but according to the ideas which they express. . . . Object: The idea being given to Und the... | |
 | Alice Bertha Kroeger, Isadore Gilbert Mudge - 1908 - 172 pàgines
...Bost. De Wolfe [pref. 1852-79] 429 + 271 p. O. $2. 424 " A collection of words of the English language and of the idiomatic combinations peculiar to it, arranged not in alphabetical order, . . . but according to the ideas which they express. . . . Object: The idea being given to find the... | |
 | Alice Bertha Kroeger, Isadore Gilbert Mudge - 1908 - 170 pàgines
...Bost. De Wolfe [pref. 1852-79] 429 + 271 p. O. $2. 424 " A collection of words of the English language and of the idiomatic combinations peculiar to it, arranged not in alphabetical order, . . . but according to the ideas which they express. . . . Object: The idea being given to find the... | |
 | Alice Bertha Kroeger, Isadore Gilbert Mudge - 1908 - 172 pàgines
...Bost. De Wolfe [pref. 1852-79] 429 + 271 p. O. $2. 424 " A collection of words of the English language and of the idiomatic combinations peculiar to it, arranged not in alphabetical order, . . . but according to the ideas which they express. . . . Object: The idea being given to find the... | |
 | Christopher Orlando Sylvester Mawson - 1911 - 702 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...Dictionary, but according to the ideas which they express. 1 The purpose of an ordinary dictionary is simply to explain the meaning of words; and the problem... | |
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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... 
