THE

MIRROR.

A PERIODICAL PAPER, published at
EDINBURGH in the years 1779 and 1780.

Veluti in speculo.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

EDINBURGH:

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Printed for W. CREECH, Edinburgh; and
W.STRAHAN, and T. CADELL, London.

MDCCLXXXI

CONTENTS.

N°

Pag.

75. Letter from TIMOTHY SHUTTLE-

WORTH Stating his difficulties in

reading the News-papers. General

reflections on the abuses of those dai-

drinking. Mr Umphraville's re-
flections on modern manners,

77. The effect of difficulty in attainment
to heighten our keenness in purfuit.
Argument deduced from this with
regard to the rule of poetical ju-
stice,

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78. Letter from JOHN HEARTY giving
an account of his fufferings from an
extreme propensity to friendship,

79. INTEGER on negatively good men ;

Scheme of a news-paper, torelate

what things are not done-The

plagiarisms of the MIRROR, in a

Short letter from EVELINA,

N°

Pag.

80. Critique on that species of compofition

known by the name of Advertise-

82. On fign-posts, as the reward of public

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 feculiarities in Edin-

73

burgh,

82

85. Apology to poetical correfpondents.

The EXILE, an elegy,

89

86. ANTIQUARIUS on the virtues of cer-

tain ancient medicines,

87. On fuperftition and the fear of death,

88. The hardships of a private tutor, in a

letter from K. B. Reflections fug-

gested by it,

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89. EMILIA on female accomplishments.

- Letter from LETITIA LAPPET

going ta fet up shop as a milliner,

90. Calamities

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123

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Pag.

90. Calamities incident to extreme old age,

particularly the loss of friends; feel-

ings of the Author on a misfortune

of that kind,

133

91. On the duties of the great, in beha-

viour as well as conduct,

139

148

157

92. On the desire of figure-making,

93. Character of a felf-important trifler;

in a letter from Miss C. F.

94. Effects of the representation of cer-
tain characters in the MIRROR.

- Letter from a gentleman in

London on the improvements of

95. Description 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

роет,

97. Account of the Flint family, and
their conduct with regard to the
education of Master Flint, by the

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