"If society be formed, by the communication of ideas and sentiments, speech, is, undoubtedly, its most essential and most graceful band, being, at once, the pencil of the mind, the image of its operations, and, the interpreter of the heart."
The Difference, Between Words, Esteemed Synonymous: in the English Language
Credited as being the first thesaurus in English. 4 entries in the ESTC (1766, 1776, 1783, 1795).<br>
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See John Trusler, <u>The Difference, Between Words, Esteemed Synonymous: in the English Language; and, the Proper Choice of them Determined: Together with, so much of AbbÃ© Girard's Treatise, on this Subject, as Would Agree, with our Mode of Expression</u>, 2 vols. (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1766). &lt;<a  href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004892937.0001.001">Vol. I, Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004892937.0001.002">Vol. II, Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;