The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 64Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1781 - 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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... ancients . The Author here returns to the fubject of ancient population , enlarges on the productions and riches of Babylon , the most fertile country in the world ; mea- fures the extent of the habitable parts of Egypt ; describes its ...
... ancients . The Author here returns to the fubject of ancient population , enlarges on the productions and riches of Babylon , the most fertile country in the world ; mea- fures the extent of the habitable parts of Egypt ; describes its ...
Page 482
... ancient continents were fruitful , and were peopled the ancient fea , which covered the modern ones , had its tides , its currents and tempefts . These powers , acting upon the foft matters which are known to have formed the ancient ...
... ancient continents were fruitful , and were peopled the ancient fea , which covered the modern ones , had its tides , its currents and tempefts . These powers , acting upon the foft matters which are known to have formed the ancient ...
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... ancient times than long hair , though it appears fomewhat furprising , that while philofophy was treating it with the most profound venera- tion , Scipio Africanus fhaved himfelf without fear or fhame every day . Long hair was but an ...
... ancient times than long hair , though it appears fomewhat furprising , that while philofophy was treating it with the most profound venera- tion , Scipio Africanus fhaved himfelf without fear or fhame every day . Long hair was but an ...
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LAUGHTONS Progrefs c of Chrifti | 4 |
BANGOR Bishop of his Faft Sermon 314 | 7 |
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