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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... fixed air ; nor has rain water been ever found to contain any . - 2 . If the atmosphere did contain a fmall portion of fixed air , it could not be inferred that metals in calcination extract any . Lime extracts none , though made by ...
... fixed air ; nor has rain water been ever found to contain any . - 2 . If the atmosphere did contain a fmall portion of fixed air , it could not be inferred that metals in calcination extract any . Lime extracts none , though made by ...
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... fixed air than did the original quantity of iron filings entire . The experiment , however , is not fully decifive , as the iron was found afterwards to have a mixture of brass , and the quantity of fixed air was greater than the ...
... fixed air than did the original quantity of iron filings entire . The experiment , however , is not fully decifive , as the iron was found afterwards to have a mixture of brass , and the quantity of fixed air was greater than the ...
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... fixed air is generated , it must be less than s of the bulk of the common air , for if this proportion of fixed air be previously fuperadded to the common air , its effect is fufficiently . fenfible . Thefe experiments are alfo ...
... fixed air is generated , it must be less than s of the bulk of the common air , for if this proportion of fixed air be previously fuperadded to the common air , its effect is fufficiently . fenfible . Thefe experiments are alfo ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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