
Peter Roget and His Thesaurus
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Thesaris of English Words and Phrases
Thesaris means sure in latin, and that was exactly what the author hoped it would be. Roget's daughter had been spiralling with some sort of mental illness. She bounced back for a little while, but she soon had another depressive episode. And many modern historians theorize that it was the way he dealt with anxiety and depression,. particularly during the many very stressful periods of his life.
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