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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... metals ; fo England ran fimilar risques in the pursuit of colonization , from fimilar caufes producing fimilar effects . It was the greatnefs of her capitals and credit , the skill and the diligence of her people , and other means that ...
... metals ; fo England ran fimilar risques in the pursuit of colonization , from fimilar caufes producing fimilar effects . It was the greatnefs of her capitals and credit , the skill and the diligence of her people , and other means that ...
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... metals , and even of gold , afcend with it , and by this procedure , is become not only the compa- nion of almost all metals , but alfo the mineralizer of feveral other substances , known under the denomination of semi - metals : We ...
... metals , and even of gold , afcend with it , and by this procedure , is become not only the compa- nion of almost all metals , but alfo the mineralizer of feveral other substances , known under the denomination of semi - metals : We ...
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... Metal- lurgical . Stockholm and Leipfic . 1781 . The differtations , contained in thefe collections , were com- pofed at Upfal , and submitted to academical difcuffion , under the Chevalier Wallerius , profeffor in that univerfity . The ...
... Metal- lurgical . Stockholm and Leipfic . 1781 . The differtations , contained in thefe collections , were com- pofed at Upfal , and submitted to academical difcuffion , under the Chevalier Wallerius , profeffor in that univerfity . The ...
Page 165
... metals by fire . - The good effects that arife from the turnings of metallic ores . - The burning of iron ores . - The fufion of metallic ores . - The use of calcareous ftone in the fufion of iron ores . - The fuperior quality of ...
... metals by fire . - The good effects that arife from the turnings of metallic ores . - The burning of iron ores . - The fufion of metallic ores . - The use of calcareous ftone in the fufion of iron ores . - The fuperior quality of ...
Page 166
... metals and minerals , fent to foreign countries , in the space of the last twenty years , have brought up very little less than 46,153,000 of rixdollars , exclufive of the tin and the finer metal manufactures . IV . SUPPLEMENTUM Novi ...
... metals and minerals , fent to foreign countries , in the space of the last twenty years , have brought up very little less than 46,153,000 of rixdollars , exclufive of the tin and the finer metal manufactures . IV . SUPPLEMENTUM Novi ...
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Page 205 - And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.
Page 455 - ... the mind, gratify the fancy, or move the affections, belongs to their province. They present human nature under a different aspect from that which it assumes when viewed by other sciences.
Page 204 - He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us.
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Page 205 - Father, who raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand, far above all principalities and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come, and put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church...
Page 202 - Me through their word ; that they all may be one ; as Thou, FATHER, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they alfo may be one in Us : that the world may believe that Thou haft fent Me.
Page 270 - Sophs ; but not before they have been formally created by one of the regentmasters, before whom they kneel, while he lays a volume of Aristotle's works on their heads, and puts on a hood, a piece of black crape, hanging from their necks, and down to their heels; which crape, it is...
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Page 205 - And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and fuch as are in the fea, and all that are in them, heard I, faying, Bleffing, and honour, and glory, and power be unto him that fitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.