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Title: The Looking-Glass for the Mind
or Intellectual Mirror

Author: M. Berquin

Illustrator: I. Bewick

Release Date: October 12, 2008 [EBook #26885]

Language: English

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Chapter headings in the table of Contents and in the main body
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THE

LOOKING-GLASS

FOR

THE MIND;

OR

INTELLECTUAL MIRROR;

BEING AN ELEGANT COLLECTION

OF

The most delightful Little Stories

AND INTERESTING TALES:

CHIEFLY TRANSLATED FROM THAT MUCH ADMIRED WORK

L'AMI DES ENFANS.

WITH SEVENTY-FOUR CUTS,

DESIGNED AND ENGRAVED ON WOOD, BY

I. BEWICK

THE SIXTEENTH EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JOHN HARRIS, G. WHITTAKER, HARVEY
AND CO., LONGMAN AND CO., J. AND C. RIVINGTON,
T. CADELL, H. S. KIRBY, BALDWIN AND CO., HAMILTON
AND CO., J. SOUTER, SIMPKIN AND CO., AND J. NUNN.

1825

Printed by S. and R. Bentley,
Dorset Street, Fleet Street, London.

PREFACE.

The following pages may be considered rather as a Collection of the
BEAUTIES of M. BERQUIN, than as a literally abridged translation of that
work, several original thoughts and observations being occasionally
introduced into different parts of them.

The stories here collected are of a most interesting kind, since virtue
is constantly represented as the fountain of happiness, and vice as the
source of every evil. Nothing extravagant or romantic will be found in
these tales: neither enchanted castles, nor supernatural agents, but
such scenes are exhibited as come within the reach of the observations
of young people in common life; the whole being made familiar by an
innocent turn of thought an