commonplace book
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Besides keeping my own commonplace book, I enjoy reading similar compilations by others.
From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2022
As it happens, I’ve kept my own commonplace book since I was in college.
From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2022
John Milton’s commonplace book is on the British Library site, and the personal notebooks of other writers and thinkers pop up easily with a web search.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2021
And he took copious notes, organized by topic, in his commonplace book — the database of the era.
From Nature • May 1, 2018
Samuel Adams’s master’s thesis was “delivered in flawless Latin,” Alexander Hamilton copied Demosthenes into his commonplace book, and Thomas Jefferson modeled his oratory on the prose of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
