The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 403, December 5, 1829

Part 4

Chapter 4350 wordsPublic domain

Is made with cream alone, and is best preserved in casks or tubs, with a pickle made of salt, which is removed from time to time.

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SIAMESE COMMANDMENTS.

The moral precepts of the Siamese are comprised in the following Ten Commandments:--

1. Do not slay animals.

2. Do not steal.

3. Do not commit adultery.

4. Do not tell lies nor backbite.

5. Do not drink wine.[4]

6. Do not eat after twelve o'clock.

7. Do not frequent plays or public spectacles, nor listen to music.

8. Do not use perfumes, nor wear flowers, or other personal ornaments.

9. Do not sleep or recline upon a couch that is above one cubit high.

10. Do not borrow, nor be in debt.

[4] The punishment for drinking wine is to have a stream of melted copper poured down the throat; but wine is drunk, and all classes feed upon flesh.

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ANNUALS FOR 1830.

The Supplement published with the present number contains a Fine Large Engraving of the _Leaning Towers of Bologna_; humorous cuts from the _Comic Annual_; and interesting Notices and Unique Extracts from the _Keepsake, Landscape Annual, Forget-Me Not, Bijou, Emmanuel_, &c. and with No. 400, forms the SPIRIT OF THE ANNUALS FOR 1830.

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LIMBIRD'S EDITION OF THE _Following Novels is already Published_:

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

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