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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... hiftory , though by no means to be fubftituted in the room of hiftories written in detail , anfwer two very useful ends ; to give young perfons a general view of the field of hiftory , before they enter upon the particular study of its ...
... hiftory , though by no means to be fubftituted in the room of hiftories written in detail , anfwer two very useful ends ; to give young perfons a general view of the field of hiftory , before they enter upon the particular study of its ...
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... hiftory of one par- ticular object . For example , The first chapter of each book contains the civil and military hiftory of Great Britain , in the period which is the fubject of that book . The fecond chapter of the fame book contains ...
... hiftory of one par- ticular object . For example , The first chapter of each book contains the civil and military hiftory of Great Britain , in the period which is the fubject of that book . The fecond chapter of the fame book contains ...
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Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths. The third volume contains the hiftory of Britain , from the Janding of William Duke of Normandy , to the death of King John , A. D. 1216 . The fourth volume continues the fame hiftory , from the death of ...
Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths. The third volume contains the hiftory of Britain , from the Janding of William Duke of Normandy , to the death of King John , A. D. 1216 . The fourth volume continues the fame hiftory , from the death of ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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