Roget's Thesaurus of English Words & Phrases: Classified & Arr. So as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas, & Assist in Literary CompositionT.Y. Crowell Company, 1911 - 653 Seiten |
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Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: So Classified and Arranged as to ... Peter Mark Roget Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: So Classified and Arranged as to ... Peter Mark Roget Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: So Classified and Arranged as to ... Peter Mark Roget Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acroamatic ance arms assent ation bear beat blood blow break breath bring cæsura cast cheer Cicero color coöperate coup de grâce cunning dark dead defense 717 difficulty 704 discord 713 disease 655 evidence 467 evil excitable 825 face fall false feeling 821 fire fool foot give Hamlet hang hard heart hold honor Horace horse ical important 642 inactive iness insensible insolent 885 irrelation irreligion Julius Cæsar keep lenitive light look Macbeth means ment mind motion mouth ness &c one's eyes one's hands one's head oneself Othello Ovid painful 830 Paradise Lost pasigraphy pass play Pope prepare 673 render round send to Coventry sion soul sound spirit stand success 731 support 215 Tacitus thing thought throw tion &c tive turn uncertain 475 uncon unconformable Vergil wind words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite x - None but those who are conversant with the philosophy of mental phenomena, can be aware of the immense influence that is exercised by language in promoting the development of our ideas, in fixing them in the mind, and in detaining them for steady contemplation. Into every process of reasoning, language enters as an essential element. Words are the instruments by which we form all our abstractions, by which we fashion and embody our ideas, and by which we are enabled to glide along a series of premises...
Seite 293 - ... bell the cat, take the bull by the horns, beard the lion in his den, march up to the, cannon's mouth, go through fire and water, run the gantlet.
Seite 93 - earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God " [Hageman]; " green calm below, blue quietness above " [Whittier]; " hanging in a golden chain this pendant World " [Paradise Lost]', " nothing in nature is unbeautiful " [Tennyson]; " silently as a dream the fabric rose " [Cowper]; " some touch of nature's genial glow " ' [Scott]; " this majestical roof fretted with golden fire " [Hamlet]; " through knowledge we behold the World's creation
Seite ix - The inquirer can readily select, out of the ample collection spread out before his eyes in the following pages, those expressions which are best suited to his purpose, and which might not have occurred to him without such assistance. In order to make this selection, he scarcely ever need engage in any critical or elaborate study of the subtle distinctions existing between synonymous terms ; for if the materials set before him be sufficiently abundant, an instinctive tact will rarely fail to lead...
Seite 138 - ... pass under review &c. (examine) 457; investigate &c. (inquire) 461. hold the scales, sit in judgment; try -, hear- a cause.
Seite xi - False logic, disguised under specious phraseology, too often gains the assent of the unthinking multitude, disseminating far and wide the seeds of prejudice and error. Truisms pass current, and wear the semblance of profound wisdom, when dressed up in the tinsel garb of antithetical phrases, or set off by an imposing pomp of paradox. By a confused jargon of involved and mystical sentences, the imagination is easily inveigled into a transcendental region of clouds, and the understanding beguiled into...
Seite xiii - Languages differ very much with regard to the particular words where this distinction obtains ; and may thence afford very strong inferences concerning the manners and customs of different nations. The military government of the ROMAN emperors had exalted the soldiery so high, that they balanced all the other orders of the state : Hence miles and paganus became relative terms ; a thing, till then, unknown to ancient, and still so to modern languages.
Seite ix - Is exactly the converse of this : the Idea being given, to find the word or words by which that idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed.
Seite 333 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
Seite xiii - It is an universal observation which we may form upon language, that where two related parts of a whole bear any proportion to each other, in numbers, rank or consideration, there are always correlative terms invented, which answer to both the parts, and express their mutual relation. If they bear no proportion to each other, the term is only invented for the less, and marks its distinction from the whole. Thus man and woman, master and servant, father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen...