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    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 349, Supplement to Volume 12.
    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 349, Supplement to Volume 12.
    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 349, Supplement to Volume 12.
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    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 349, Supplement to Volume 12.

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    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 349, Supplement to Volume 12.

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      The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 349, Supplement to Volume 12. - Various Various

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      Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction.

      Volume 12, No. 349, Supplement to Volume 12.

      Author: Various

      Release Date: March 3, 2004 [EBook #11420]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE, NO. 349 ***

      Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Allen Siddle, David Garcia and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team.

      THE MIRROR

      OF

      LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.

      CONTAINING

      ORIGINAL ESSAYS; HISTORICAL NARRATIVES; BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS; SKETCHES OF SOCIETY; TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS; NOVELS AND TALES; ANECDOTES;

      SELECT EXTRACTS

      FROM

      NEW AND EXPENSIVE WORKS;

      POETRY, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED;

      THE SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS;

      DISCOVERIES IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES;

      USEFUL DOMESTIC HINTS;&c. &c. &c.

      ———

      VOL. XII.

      ———

      PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. LIMBIRD, 143, STRAND

      (Near Somerset House)

      1828.

      PREFACE

      The present sheet completes the TWELFTH VOLUME OF THE MIRROR. This circumstance alone is typical of the substantial patronage which has attended our exertions from their commencement; and may be, we hope, anticipatory of continued success.

      Our career of six years has been subdivided into twelve volumes or sessions; we have had no recess, but uniformly "a house; and, as members of the republic of letters, we hope to be re-elected by our numerous constituents. To speak heroically, and as Puff says in the Critic, to keep it up," their approbation is

      the air we breathe,

      If we have it not, we die.

      Although we do not presume to account for our own success, or to trace its maintenance through all the fluctuations of six years—yet we are prone to believe that the economy of the plan, coupled with the spirit of curiosity which it is our aim to encourage,—have been the prime movers of our fortunes, as they have been the pivots upon which we have performed our half-yearly revolutions. In these we have allowed neither autumn nor winter to impair our exertions; and, however time may have worn otherwise with us, we still feel all the youth and freshness of spring-tide, warmed by the genial ray of public favour.

      The spirit of curiosity to which we here allude, is thus admirably described by Sterne:—The love of variety, or curiosity of seeing new things, which is the same, or at least a sister passion to it,—seems wove into the frame of every son and daughter of Adam; we usually speak of it as one of nature's levities, though planted within us for the solid purposes of carrying forwards the mind to fresh enquiry and knowledge: strip us of it, the mind (I fear) would doze for ever over the present page; and we should all of us rest at ease with such objects as present themselves in the parish or province where we first drew our breath.

      Such has been our feeling from the

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