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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.

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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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