Word: dormantly
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Dates: during 1876-1876
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...Homer not only divided his great work into twenty-four books, but, according to the opinion of some very sagacious; critics, hawked them all separately, delivering only one book at a time (probably by subscription). He was the first inventor of that art, which hath lain so long dormant, of publishing by numbers, - an art now brought to such perfection that even dictionaries are divided and exhibited piecemeal to the public; nay, one bookseller hath (to encourage learning and ease the public) contrived to give them a dictionary in this divided manner for only fifteen shillings more than it would...