:

THE

MIRROR.

A

PERIODICAL PAPER,

Published at EDINBURGH in the Years
1779, and 1780.

Veluti in speculo..

IN THREE VOLUMES..

VOL. III.

THE FIFTH EDITION, CORRECTED.

LONDON:

Printed for W. STRAHAN, and T. CADELL in the
Strand; and W. CREECH, at Edinburgh.

MDCCLXXΧΙΙΙ,

7 N°

CONTENTS.

Page

75. Letter from TIMOTHY SHUTTLE-
WORTH, ftating his difficulties in read-
ing the Newspapers. General reflec-
tions on the abuses of those daily intelli-

gencers,

76. Dinner at Mr. Melfort's. Hard drink-

ing. Mr. Umphraville's reflections on

modern manners,

77. The effect of difficulty in attainment to

heighten our keenness in pursuit. Argu-

menť deduced from this with regard to

the rule of poetical justice,

-

78. Letter from JOHN HEARTY, giving

an account of his fufferings from an ex-

treme propensity to friendship,

-

79. INTEGER on negatively good men; Scheme
of a newspaper to relate what things
are not done. - Obfervations on pastoral

poetry,

So. Critiqus on that species of compofition

known by the name of Advertisement,

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9

17

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31

43

81. Distreffes