ago, in the year 1778, I made my first appearance at this theatre. Half
a century is not bad. Hurra!! John Bannister."

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ALPHABETICAL AGREEMENT.


In reading over an agreement, for letting a house, the other day, the
initials of the party letting it were A.B., of the party taking C.D.,
and of the witness to the signatures E.F.

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OBSTINACY AND PERSEVERANCE.


Obstinacy and perseverance, though often confounded, are two very
different things; a man may be very obstinate, and yet not persevere in
his opinion ten minutes. Obstinacy is resistance to truth; perseverance
is a continuance in truth or error.

T.C.C.

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IDOLATRY.