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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
No. 291 - Supplement to Vol 10

Author: Various

Release Date: October 31, 2004 [EBook #13899]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Illustration: HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

THE LORD HIGH ADMIRAL.

K.G.G.C.B. &C. &C.]

J. Limbird, Publisher. 148. Strand.

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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.

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VOL. X.

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LONDON:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. LIMBIRD, 143, STRAND,
(_NEAR SOMERSET HOUSE._)

1828.

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PREFACE.

Each volume of a successful periodical miscellany resembles Seneca's
"one good turn--a shoeing-horn to another;" and the Editor of THE
MIRROR, in prefacing his _tenth volume_ with this comparison, hopes
that he does not over-rate what the present patronage of the public
encourages him to expect. Indeed, he would fear the suspicion
of ingratitude on his part, were he not thus to acknowledge the
long-extended success which has attended his labours, from their
commencement to the present moment. At the same time, lest vanity
should be thought to have mastered his better judgment, he assures
his patrons that he does not claim the undivided merit of his good
fortune; since, beyond his own taste of adaptation and selection,
he "misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on;" so that, the
multiplicity of his resources being considered, his success