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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... Author ' ; and , if we are defirous of knowing more of fpiritual things than the Scriptures teach us , let us ... Author has lately publ fhed a volume on the hiftory of Milan , which work he intends to continue . The effays before us are ...
... Author ' ; and , if we are defirous of knowing more of fpiritual things than the Scriptures teach us , let us ... Author has lately publ fhed a volume on the hiftory of Milan , which work he intends to continue . The effays before us are ...
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... Author's Son , the prefent learned and ingenious Archdeacon of Winchester , who has prefixed fome obfervations on the fubject , which , many perfons will probably think , throw more light upon it than the Effay itfelf . He does not ...
... Author's Son , the prefent learned and ingenious Archdeacon of Winchester , who has prefixed fome obfervations on the fubject , which , many perfons will probably think , throw more light upon it than the Effay itfelf . He does not ...
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... Author , indeed , renders the fact highly probable , but only by induction , by reasoning from the palpable and striking resemblance between the marine po- lice and regulations of the two nations , and the great reputa- tion and ...
... Author , indeed , renders the fact highly probable , but only by induction , by reasoning from the palpable and striking resemblance between the marine po- lice and regulations of the two nations , and the great reputa- tion and ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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