The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 55Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1777 - 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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... concerning the British , as well as other colonies , that the mother country has had little merit either in projecting or effectuating their establishment , and that the monopoly in trade has tended to retard the pro- grefs of the ...
... concerning the British , as well as other colonies , that the mother country has had little merit either in projecting or effectuating their establishment , and that the monopoly in trade has tended to retard the pro- grefs of the ...
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... concerning the Chriftian Church : and , in particular , concerning the Church of Papal Rome . Preached in Lincoln's Inn Chapel , at the Lecture of the Right Rev. William Warburton , Lord Bishop of Gloucefter . By Sa- muel Hallifax ...
... concerning the Chriftian Church : and , in particular , concerning the Church of Papal Rome . Preached in Lincoln's Inn Chapel , at the Lecture of the Right Rev. William Warburton , Lord Bishop of Gloucefter . By Sa- muel Hallifax ...
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... be given by an auditory . We doubt not but they will be read by many with fatisfaction and improvement . The only view of them which our plan will admit , may 8 view 34 Hallifax on the Prophecies concerning the Chriftian Church .
... be given by an auditory . We doubt not but they will be read by many with fatisfaction and improvement . The only view of them which our plan will admit , may 8 view 34 Hallifax on the Prophecies concerning the Chriftian Church .
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... concerning the Roman Empire , all of which refer to times below the age of Antiochus , being foretold as plainly as those which relate to the Perfian or Macedonian kingdoms , fo far as the prophetical intimations are already ...
... concerning the Roman Empire , all of which refer to times below the age of Antiochus , being foretold as plainly as those which relate to the Perfian or Macedonian kingdoms , fo far as the prophetical intimations are already ...
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... concerning the man of fin , and having over- thrown other interpretations given of the prediction , he con- cludes with great apparent juftice , that the power here alluded to can be no other than that now exercifed by him , who fills ...
... concerning the man of fin , and having over- thrown other interpretations given of the prediction , he con- cludes with great apparent juftice , that the power here alluded to can be no other than that now exercifed by him , who fills ...
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Page 383 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away ; for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone : the flowers appear on the earth ; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 358 - A SEASONABLE ARGUMENT TO PERSUADE ALL THE GRAND JURIES IN ENGLAND TO PETITION FOR A NEW PARLIAMENT, OR A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL LABOURERS IN THE GREAT DESIGN OF POPERY AND ARBITRARY POWER...
Page 45 - To this inquiry, an obvious but satisfactory answer may be returned ; that it was owing to the convincing evidence of the doctrine itself, and to the ruling providence of its great Author.
Page 49 - ... the laws of nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church. But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study, appeared unconscious of any alterations in the moral or physical government of the world.
Page 47 - The former, selected from the more opulent and distinguished ranks of society, were strictly attached to the literal sense of the Mosaic law, and they piously rejected the immortality of the soul as an opinion that received no countenance from the divine book which they revered as the only rule of their faith. To the authority of scripture the Pharisees added that of tradition, and they accepted, under the name of traditions, several speculative tenets from the philosophy or religion of the eastern...
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Page 22 - Bounties upon the exportation of any homemade commodity are liable, first to that general objection which may be made to all the different expedients of the mercantile system; the objection of forcing some part of the industry of the country into a channel less advantageous than that in which it would run of its own accord...
Page 350 - In every ftage of thefe oppreffions we have petitioned for redrefs in the moft humble terms; our repeated petitions have been anfwered only by repeated injury.