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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... most populous , are moft bleffed with fruitful autumns , abound most in cattle and all the real comforts of life , and , in every refpect , become the moft flou- rishing and powerful . A fingle ancultivated acre is a real phyfical evil ...
... most populous , are moft bleffed with fruitful autumns , abound most in cattle and all the real comforts of life , and , in every refpect , become the moft flou- rishing and powerful . A fingle ancultivated acre is a real phyfical evil ...
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... most cultivated : in Africa , and the West Indies , maize or Indian corn . The smaller kinds , called graffes , are most valuable for their leaves and stalks , or herbage , which makes the principal food of all domeftic cattle . This ...
... most cultivated : in Africa , and the West Indies , maize or Indian corn . The smaller kinds , called graffes , are most valuable for their leaves and stalks , or herbage , which makes the principal food of all domeftic cattle . This ...
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... most resemble the fcrophulous parent become af- fected with icrophula , while thofe which refemble the other pa- rent entirely escape . ' This , too , is a difeafe of a certain period of life , and therefore not related to the fiphylis ...
... most resemble the fcrophulous parent become af- fected with icrophula , while thofe which refemble the other pa- rent entirely escape . ' This , too , is a difeafe of a certain period of life , and therefore not related to the fiphylis ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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