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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net 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 Character set encoding: ASCII *** 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: VOL. XII, NO. 349.] SUPPLEMENT TO VOL. XII. [PRICE 2d. 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. 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
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