The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 72Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1785 - Books A monthly book announcement and review journal. Considered to be the first periodical in England to offer reviews. In each issue the longer reviews are in the front section followed by short reviews of lesser works. It featured the novelist and poet Oliver Goldsmith as an early contributor. Griffiths himself, and likely his wife Isabella Griffiths, contributed review articles to the periodical. Later contributors included Dr. Charles Burney, John Cleland, Theophilus Cibber, James Grainger, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Moody, and Tobias Smollet. |
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Page 77
... should it not be used to produce the like effect among Chriftians ? Human nature is the fame ; and the power of mufic the fame : why fhould there not be the fame application of one to the other for the fame beneficial end under both ...
... should it not be used to produce the like effect among Chriftians ? Human nature is the fame ; and the power of mufic the fame : why fhould there not be the fame application of one to the other for the fame beneficial end under both ...
Page 143
... should with- hold the information which is in his power , or decline to ftate matters which they ought to know , he fhould feel himself un- worthy to belong to them ; and he should think it difhoneft , in the highest degree , to enter ...
... should with- hold the information which is in his power , or decline to ftate matters which they ought to know , he fhould feel himself un- worthy to belong to them ; and he should think it difhoneft , in the highest degree , to enter ...
Page 316
... should have been contented with the law as he found it , and have confidered how little might be faid with decency , rather than bow much ; but feeling , as I have ever done upon the fubject , it was impoffible I fhould act otherwife ...
... should have been contented with the law as he found it , and have confidered how little might be faid with decency , rather than bow much ; but feeling , as I have ever done upon the fubject , it was impoffible I fhould act otherwife ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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