Excerpt from Everybody's Business: Everybody's Business Should Be in Everybody's Hands, and Everybody's Mouth, EverywhereThe character on the left of our embellishment represents an Old English Gentleman. Robert Ainsworth informs us that the letter P is of no great antiquity, nor, in fact, use. The name of this letter is the same in English, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, 719, pe, signifying, in that tongue, a month, which the figure somewhat represents. The ancient Latins were sometimes at a stand whether to write B or P, as, for instance, in Fabius, whether obtineo, or optineo, since more of this, than that was heard in pronunciation. This is also proportionably demonstrated in its very figure, P being half a B.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.