The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 68Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1783 - 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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... Human WELSH Poetry translated , 271 Bodies , TIMES , a Satire , 547 540 TIRABOSCHI , Abbé , his Collection of 438 Modenese Writers , Vol . II , Vol . III , TRIUMPH of Liberty , 591 TRAITE de la Verité , de la Religion Cbre- tienne , & c ...
... Human WELSH Poetry translated , 271 Bodies , TIMES , a Satire , 547 540 TIRABOSCHI , Abbé , his Collection of 438 Modenese Writers , Vol . II , Vol . III , TRIUMPH of Liberty , 591 TRAITE de la Verité , de la Religion Cbre- tienne , & c ...
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... human faculties , together with the brevity of life , have entered into the spirit of the ancient Academicians , and embraced the modeft principles of that fect . In reality , our knowledge is very limited ; we fee but the furface of ...
... human faculties , together with the brevity of life , have entered into the spirit of the ancient Academicians , and embraced the modeft principles of that fect . In reality , our knowledge is very limited ; we fee but the furface of ...
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... human mind fome characters of a divine nature , and which never can be the effect of any motions whatever of dull inanimated matter . Indeed , when we give a juft attention to the noble powers of the foul , our admiration of the ...
... human mind fome characters of a divine nature , and which never can be the effect of any motions whatever of dull inanimated matter . Indeed , when we give a juft attention to the noble powers of the foul , our admiration of the ...
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... human body . In all the members of architecture , ftrength or beauty are intended . As to the human body , befides the endowments of ftrength and beauty , Nature hath not only fitted it for much motion , but hath rendered ex- ercife ...
... human body . In all the members of architecture , ftrength or beauty are intended . As to the human body , befides the endowments of ftrength and beauty , Nature hath not only fitted it for much motion , but hath rendered ex- ercife ...
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... 200 . ] with the Article in the Review , they will fee an inftance of plagiarifm which perhaps they may think had furpafled mere human furance . As As a fpecimen for those who may not have leifure 24 Cookfon's Thoughts on Polygamy .
... 200 . ] with the Article in the Review , they will fee an inftance of plagiarifm which perhaps they may think had furpafled mere human furance . As As a fpecimen for those who may not have leifure 24 Cookfon's Thoughts on Polygamy .
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