The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832.

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Various. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832.

MELROSE ABBEY

LACONICS

THE KNIGHT'S RETURN

SCOTCH ECONOMY

PRICE OF TEA

THE NATURALIST

GLEANINGS IN NATURAL HISTORY

Claws of the Skylark

Instinct allied to reason

Eels

QUEEN ANNE'S SPRING, NEAR ETON

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

STATE OF MAGIC IN EGYPT, BY AN EYE-WITNESS

NOTES OF A READER

RECREATIONS IN THE LAW

MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS

THE CURFEW BELL

BARBAROUS PUNISHMENTS

THE SELECTOR AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS

THE ALTRIVE TALES

THE GATHERER

Character of England

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The most important advantages we enjoy, and the greatest discoveries that science can boast, have proceeded from men who have either seen little of the world, or have secluded themselves entirely for the purposes of study. Not only those arts which are exclusively the result of calculation, such as navigation, mechanism, and others, but even agriculture, may be said to derive its improvement, if not its origin, from the same source.

Where a cause is good, an appeal should be directed to the heart rather than the head: the application comes more home, and reaches more forcibly, where it is the most necessary—the natural rather than the improved faculties of the human understanding.

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That a little learning is dangerous is one of our surest maxims. If knowledge does not produce the effect of ameliorating our imperfect condition, it were, without question, better let alone altogether; it is not to be made merely an appendix to the mind, but must be incorporated and identified with it.

They who have experienced sorrow are the most capable of appreciating joy; so, those only who have been sick, feel the full value of health.

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