Notes and Queries, Vol. 10: Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc;; July December, 1854 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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9780364422465: Notes and Queries, Vol. 10: Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc;; July December, 1854 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Notes and Queries, Vol. 10: Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc;; July December, 1854

Jan. 9, 1659 - 60. Muddiman owns that though he writes new books for the Parlia ment. New books should surely be news books.

Jan. 17, 1659-60. I went to the Coffee Club, and heard very good discourse; it was in answer to Mr. Harrington's answer*, who said that the state of the Roman government was not a settled government, and so it was no wonder that the balance of prosperity was in one hand, and the command in another, &c. Prosperity should be property. That the government should follow the balance of property 13 a fundamental principle of Harrington's Oceana. And so it was no wonder that the balance, &c. I think there is probably something wrong here in the decipher ing. The meaning is, And so was no wonder, for that the balance, &c.

Jan. 25, 1659 - 60. Heard that in Cheapside there had been but a little before a gibbet set up, and the picture of Huson hung upon it. Hewson had lately made himself obnoxious in the city, by suppressing a rising of the apprentices against the Committee of Safety, just before the Committee of Safety was deprived of power. (clarendon's History of the Rebellion, book xvi.)

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