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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
Vol. 20, No. 584. (Supplement to Vol. 20)
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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.
VOL. XX.
LONDON:
1832
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PREFACE.

The completion of the Twentieth Volume of this Miscellany presents us
with another cause for self-gratulation, and thankful acknowledgement
to the reading public. This continued and unimpaired success amidst
a myriad of new-born aspirants, is the best proof of our maintenance
of public esteem; and so long as our efforts are guided by the same
singleness of purpose that first directed them we shall hope for
a continuance of such favour. A multitude of contemporaries "whet
each other;" "thinking nurseth thinking;" and, in like manner,
reading nurseth reading, and awakens a spirit of inquiry, untiring
and exhaustless, among all concerned in pursuit and wholesome
gratification.
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