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    Peter Mark Roget LRCP FRS FRCP FGS FRAS (UK: /ˈrɒʒeɪ/ US: /roʊˈʒeɪ/; 18 January 1779 – 12 September 1869) was a British physician, natural theologian,...
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  • Roget's Thesaurus is a widely used English-language thesaurus, created in 1805 by Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), British physician, natural theologian and...
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  • expressed — Peter Mark Roget, 1852 Synonym dictionaries have a long history. The word 'thesaurus' was used in 1852 by Peter Mark Roget for his Roget's Thesaurus...
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    never seen on stage called Edward. Roget is the only character in the play based on a real person- the creator of Roget's Thesaurus. In the play, he is a...
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  • Merriam-Webster, 2003, archived from the original on 2009-04-21 "Peter Mark Roget", The San Francisco Chronicle, 25 March 2008, archived from the original...
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    brother-in-law, John (Jean) Roget from Geneva, was pastor. (Roget and Samuel's sister Catherine were the parents of Peter Mark Roget). Roget introduced Romilly...
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    built by one of the founders, David Bellhouse. Its first secretary, Peter Mark Roget, began his thesaurus here. Today the ground floor is tenanted by The...
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    prove less easy than it appears on first sight". Four years later Peter Mark Roget offered an explanation when reading at the Royal Society on December...
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    produced the optical illusion of a motionless wheel. He later read Peter Mark Roget's 1824 article Explanation of an optical deception in the appearance...
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    Physiology Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1834), by Peter Mark Roget. Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology...
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