The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 46 pages of information about The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 46 pages of information about The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction.

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CURE FOR ENVY.

Bishop Berkeley (that acute reasoner) contrived a lucky antidote, for the suffering of envy.  “When I walk the streets,” says he, “I use the following natural maxim, (viz. that he is the true possessor of a thing who enjoys it, and not he that owns it without the enjoyment of it,) to convince myself that I have a property in the gay part of all the gilt chariots that I meet, which I regard as amusement to delight my eyes, and the imagination of those kind people who sit in them gaily attired only to please me;” by which maxim he fancied himself one of the richest men in Great Britain.

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LIMBIRD’S EDITION OF THE BRITISH NOVELIST, Publishing in Monthly Parts, price 6d. each.—­Each Novel will be complete in itself, and may be purchased separately.

The following Novels are already Published:

s.  d. 
Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield           0   10
The Mysteries of Udolpho                 3    6
Mackenzie’s Man of Feeling               0    6
Rasselas                                 0    8
Paul and Virginia                        0    6
The Old English Baron                    0    8
The Castle of Otranto                    0    6
The Romance of the Forest                1    8
Almoran and Hamet                        0    6
Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia      0    6
Nature and Art                           0    8
The Italian                              2    0
A Simple Story                           1    4
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne       0    6
Sicilian Romance                         1    0
The Man of the World                     1    0
Zeluco, by Dr. Moore                     2    0
Joseph Andrews                           1    6
Humphry Clinker                          1    8
Edward, by Dr. Moore                     2    6

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Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, London, and Sold by all Booksellers and Newsmen.

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