The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 34 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 34 pages of information about The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction.
  Cinnamon and Cassia, 425
  Cinque Ports, their past and present state, 299
  Climatology, notes on, 134
  Clockmaking in the 9th century, 127
  Coach, the last, 432
  Coals, high price of in London, 366
  Coffee, duty on, 80
    house, London, in 1731, 358
    on roasting, 366
  Coins, to read in the dark, 191
  Colouring Cheese, 425
  Colton, the Rev. Mr., 3
  Column of Disgrace, 69
  Comet of Biela, 185
  Comparison, all things by, 368
  Compliments, value of, 384
  Condors, a pair of living, 303
  Continence, anecdotes of, 258
  Cookery, Chinese and Russian, 48
  Cool Tankard at Newgate, 192
  Coronation, expenses of the last, 32
  Court Jester, by Fuller, 352
  Courtier, an excellent, 352
  Cowards, a warning to, 48
  Cowley, the poet, 336
  Cranmer, education of, 75
  Craven, in Yorkshire, cave at, 87
  Criminal Law, reform of, 267
  Criticism, political, 207
  Critics, warning to, 352
  Cromwell, character of, 428
  Cross Readings, from the Spanish, 144
  Crosses, curious ancient, 113—­329—­360—­424
    Cornwall, 424
    Devon, 424
    Eyam, 113
    Holbeach, 329
    Leighton Buzzard, 329
    Neville’s, 360
    in the Peak, 113
    Percy’s, 361
    Wheston, 113
  Crown, British, pawned, 358
  Crucifixes, initials on, 430
  Crusader, monument of, 441
  Crusades, errors respecting, 319
  Crystal, origin of, 77
  Curran and the Mastiff, 48
  Curse of the Black Lady, a legend, 139
  Cuttle-fish, ink of, 175
    natural history of, 103
  Cuvier, memoir of, 137
  Dacre, Lady, her eccentricities, 153
  Dairyman’s Daughter, 112
  Damary Oak Tree, 112
  Dante’s Tomb, 168
  Deafness, convenient, 176
  Death, punishment of, 71
    the actor, epitaph on, 448
  Deepdene, notice of, 149
  Deer of North America, 339
  Dew, explanation of, 304
  Derbyshire, antiquities of, 116
  Dibdin, the song-writer, 128
  Dice, invention of, 384
  Dick’s Coffee-house, 16
  Diorama, Regent’s Park, 40
  Disease, causes of, 266
    effect of on the memory, 190
  Disposal of the body for dissection, 292
  Distinction and Difference, 343
  Dodo, natural history of, 311
  Dovaston, Mr., his sketches of Bewick, 18
  Dove, the River, 288
  Dover, antiquity of, 294
  Drama, essay on, 82
  Dramatis Personae, origin of, 447
  Drawing an inference, 292
  Dream of the Beautiful, 82
  Dripping Rock in India, 160
  Drop of Dew, by Marvell, 199
  Druids and their times, 20
  Dryburgh Abbey, lines on, 268—­296
  Dryden’s M’Flecknoe, 208
  Ducks, wild, catching in India, 160
  Duelling, 343—­416
  Eagle’s Cliff, visit to, 299
  “Eclipse,” the horse, 354
  Economy of Conveyance by Steam, 183
    Time and Materials, 54
  Edinburgh, by Mr. Cobbett, 287
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