[Charles Earl Stanhope, whose versatility of talent succeeded in
abolishing the old wooden printing-press, with its double pulls, and
substituting in its place the beautiful iron one, called after him the
"Stanhope Press." His lordship's inventive genius, however, failed in
the composing-room; for his transmogrified letter-cases, with his eight
logotypes, once attempted at _The Times'_ office, were soon abandoned,
and the old process of single letters preferred.]
_Dissimulate._--Where is the earliest use of this word to be found? It is
to be met with in Bernard Mandeville's _Fable of the Bees_, 1723; but is
not to be found, I think, in any dictionary. I was once heavily censured at
school for using it in my theme; but I have more than once of late seen it
used in a leading article of _The Times_.