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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... last quality alone , he afcribes the good effects to be expected from mercurial in- jections . His reafons may be collected from the following cxtracts : 6 The idea , fays the Author , of their correcting the venereal virus was ...
... last quality alone , he afcribes the good effects to be expected from mercurial in- jections . His reafons may be collected from the following cxtracts : 6 The idea , fays the Author , of their correcting the venereal virus was ...
Page 192
... last perfon of whom our Author gives an account in this chapter is William Kent , who was a painter , an architect , and the father of modern gardening . In the firft character , we are told , he was below mediocrity ; in the fecond ...
... last perfon of whom our Author gives an account in this chapter is William Kent , who was a painter , an architect , and the father of modern gardening . In the firft character , we are told , he was below mediocrity ; in the fecond ...
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... last 5 years , were to the number of inhabitants during 5 years about the time of the Revolution , as 203860,3 to 18283,3 . That is , as 10 to 9 nearly . 2d . The number of houses , or families , in certain towns , taken ...
... last 5 years , were to the number of inhabitants during 5 years about the time of the Revolution , as 203860,3 to 18283,3 . That is , as 10 to 9 nearly . 2d . The number of houses , or families , in certain towns , taken ...
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LAUGHTONS Progrefs c of Chrifti | 4 |
BANGOR Bishop of his Faft Sermon 314 | 7 |
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