lucubrated

Updated: May 7, 2025

Would it not be more agreeable, and more profitable to a publisher who, after having paid the just remuneration for the manuscript to its author, who lucubrated with a moral work, in order to sustain his family, would it not be more profitable, I say, to the publisher, were he printing such a work with leisure, which would do honor to his profession?

Joseph Rocchietti - Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America