The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827 by Various
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Lake, one of the seven bishops committed to the Tower in the time of
James I.; Trelawney, a familiar name in the events of 1688; Butler, who materially improved the episcopal palace of Bristol; Conybeare and Newton, names well known in literary history; with the erudite Warburton, whose name occurs in the list of deans of Bristol. * * * * * DEBTOR AND CREDITOR.[1] The time is out of joint.--_Hamlet._ A man of my profession never counterfeits, till he lays hold upon a debtor and says he _rests_ him: for then he brings him to all manner of unrest.--_The Bailiff, in 'Every Man in his Humour.'_ Run not into debt, either for wares sold or money borrowed; be content to want things that are not of absolute necessity, rather than to run up the score: such a man pays at the latter a third part more than the principal comes to, and is in perpetual servitude to his creditors; lives uncomfortably; is necessitated to increase his debts to stop his creditors' mouths; and many times falls into desperate courses. SIR M. HALE. "The greatest of all distinctions in civil life," says Steele, "is that |
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