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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 12, No. 328, August 23, 1828 by Various
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only to stimulate others, and produce fresh candidates for fame to tread
the same perilous path.--_Quarterly Review--Article "Ledyard's
Travels."_

[8] Sir James Hall of Douglass, Bart., the father of Captain
Basil Hall, R.N., and, till lately, President of the Royal
Society of Edinburgh.

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THE GATHERER.


"A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles."

SHAKSPEARE.

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LARGE BONNETS.

(_For the Mirror_.)


The immense large bonnets which decorate the ladies of the present day
are truly "_over the borders_," and seem to keep pace with the "_march
of intellect_." A garden seems to bloom on their exterior, and roses and
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