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THE
MIRROR.
A PERIODICAL PAPER, publifhed at EDINBURGH in the years 1779 and 1780.
Veluti in fpeculo.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
EDINBURGH:
Printed for W. CREECH, Edinburgh; and W. STRAHAN, and T. CADELL, London.
MDCCLXXXI.
N°
CONTENTS.
75. Letter from TIMOTHY SHUTTLE- WORTH ftating his difficulties in reading the News-papers. General reflections on the abufes of thofe dai-
ly intelligencers.
76. Dinner at Mr Melfort's.
Hard
drinking. Mr Umphraville's re-
flections on modern manners,
Pag
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77. The effect of difficulty in attainment
to heighten our keennefs in purfuit.
Argument deduced from this with
regard to the rule of poetical ju-
ftice,
78. Letter from JOHN HEARTY giving
an account of his fufferings from an
extreme propenfity to friendship,
79. INTEGER on negatively good men ;
fcheme of a news-paper, to relate
what things are not done
plagiarisms of the MIRROR,
fhort letter from EVELINA,
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in a
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80. Critique
Pag.
80. Critique on that species of compofition known by the name of Advertise-
ment,
81. Diftrefes of an heiress; in a letter
from OLIVIA,
82. On fign-posts, as the reward of public
merit and criterion of national fuc-
cess,
83. Enquiry into the causes of the scarcity
of humorous writers in Scotland,
84. Of the privilege of fashion to alter
nature; fome account of certain
fashionable peculiarities in Edin-
burgh,
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85. Apology to poetical correfpondents.
The EXILE, an elegy,
89
86. ANTIQUARIUS on the virtues of cer-
tain ancient medicines,
87. On fuperfiition and the fear of death,
88. The hardships of a private tutor, in a
letter from K. B. Reflections fug-
gefted by it,
89. EMILIA on female accomplishments.
-Letter from LETITIA LAPPET
going to fet up fhop as a milliner,
90. Calamities
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90. Calamities incident to extreme old age,
particularly the lofs of friends; feel-
ings of the Author on a misfortune
of that kind,
91. On the duties of the great, in beha-
viour as well as conduct,
92. On the defire of figure-making,
93. Character of a felf-important trifler;
in a letter from Mifs C. F.
94. Effects of the reprefentation of cer- tain characters in the MIRROR.
Letter from a gentleman in
London on the improvements of
Edinburgh,
95. Defcription of a dangerous Species
of coquette; in two letters from
Mr and Mrs B.
96. Bad effects of an education too refined
for the fociety in which we live;
in a letter from MARY MUSLIN.
-The MARRIAGE of EVAL, a
poem,
97. Account of the Flint family, and their conduct with regard to the education of Mafter Flint, by the
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