THE

MIRROR:

A PERIODICAL PAPER,

PUBLISHED AT EDINBURGH IN THE YEARS 1779 AND 1780.

66 Veluti in speculo."

A NEW EDITION, IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. RICHARDSON AND CO.;

RICHARDSON AND CO.; G. OFFER; T. TEGG;
J. SHARPE AND SON : ROBINSON A

ND SON; ROBINSON AND CO.; G. WALKER;
J. EVANS AND SONS; R. DOBSON ; J. JONES ;

SONS; R. DOBSON; J. JONES; AND J. JOHNSON:

KFRAE, AND J, SUTHERLANI), EDINBURGH ;
AND R, GRIFFIN AND CO. GLASGOW,

1822.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS

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CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME I.

1. INTRODUCTORY paper. The reception

which a work of this sort is likely

to meet with. Some account of the

author and his intentions . Home

%. Various opinions of the Mirror over-

heard by the author in the shop of
its publisher . . .

. . Mackenzie

3. Of beauty. Philosophical opinions of

it: directions for improving and pre-

serving it. . . . . .

. . Craig
4. The effects of a foreign education, in a
letter from L. G. . :

· Abercromby
Of pedantry. An extension of that