THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES. 



So Classified and Arranged as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas, and Assist 

 in Literary Composition. By PETER MARK ROGET, late Secretary of the Royal 

 Society, and author of the " Bridgewater Treatise," etc. Revised and En- 

 larged; with a LIST OF FOREIGN WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS most frequently 

 occurring in works of general Literature, Defined in English, by BARNAS 

 SEARS, 13. D., Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, assisted by 

 several Literary Gentlemen. 12mo., cloth. $1.50. 



A work of great merit, admirably adapted as a text-book for schools and colleges, and 

 cf high importance to every American scholar. Among the numerous commendations re- 

 ceived from the press, in all directions, the publishers would call attention to the following : 



We are glad to see the Thesaurus of English Words republished in this country. It is a most 

 raluable work, giving the results of many years' labor, in an attempt to classify and arrange 

 the words of the English tongue, so as to facilitate the practice of composition. The purpose 

 of an ordinary dictionary is to explain the meaning of words, while the object of this Thesaurui 

 is to collate all the words by which any given idea may be expressed. Putnam's Monthly. 



This volume offers the student of English composition the results of great labor in the form 

 of a rich and copious vocabulary. We would commend the work to those who have charge 

 of academies and high schools, and to all students. Christian Observer. 



This is a novel publication, and is the first and only one of the kind ever issued in which 

 words and phrases of our language are classified, not according to the sound of their orthog- 

 raphy, but strictly according to their signification. It will become an invaluable aid in the 

 communication of our thoughts, whether spoken or written, and hence, as a means of improve- 

 ment, we can recommend it as a work of rare and excellent qualities. Scientific American. 



A work of great utility. It will give a writer the word he wants, when that word is on the 

 tip of his tongue, but altogether beyond his reach. N. Y. Times. 



It is more complete than the English work, which has attained a 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 in a dictionary, but 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, or the idea it is intended to convey. 

 The object aimed at here is exactly the converse of this : the idea being given, to find the word 

 or words by which that idea may be mostly fitly and aptly expressed. For this purpose, the 

 words and phrases of the language are here classed, not according to their sound or their 

 orthography, but strictly according to their signification. New York Evening Mirror. 



An invaluable companion to persons engaged in literary labors. To persons who are not 

 familiar with foreign tongues, the catalogue of foreign words and phrases most current in 

 modern literature, which the American editor has appended, will be very useful. Presbyterian. 



It casts the whole English language into groups of words and terms, arranged in such a 

 manner that the student of English composition, when embarrassed by the poverty of his 

 vocabulary, may supply himself immediately, on consulting it, with the precise term for 

 which he has occasion. New York Evening Post. 



This is a work not merely of extraordinary, but of peculiar value. We would gladly praise 

 it, if any thing could add to the consideration held out by the title page. No one who speaks 

 or writes for the public need be urged to study Roget's Thesaurus. Star of the West. 



Every writer and speaker ought to possess himself at once of this manual. It is far from 

 being a mere dull, dead string of synonymes, but it is enlivened and vivified by the classifying 

 and crystallizing power of genuine philosophy. We have put it on our table as a permanent 

 fixture, as near our left hand as the Bible is to our right. Congregationalist. 



This book is one of the most valuable we ever examined. It supplies a want long acknowl- 

 edged by the best writers, and supplies it completely. Portland Advertiser. 



One of the most efficient aids to composition that research, industry, and scholarship have 

 ever produced. Its object is to supply the writer or speaker with the most felicitous terms 

 for expressing an idea that may be vaguely floating on his mind ; and, indeed, through the 

 peculiar manner of arrangement, ideas themselves may be expanded or modified by reference 

 to Mr. Roaet's elucidations. Albion, 2T. Y. () 



