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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... received Theory of Electricity ; and which tend in their Progress to establish a new Syftem , on Principles more con- formable to the fimple Operations of Nature . By the Rev. John Lyon , of Dover , Kent . 4to . 12 s . Boards . Dodfley ...
... received Theory of Electricity ; and which tend in their Progress to establish a new Syftem , on Principles more con- formable to the fimple Operations of Nature . By the Rev. John Lyon , of Dover , Kent . 4to . 12 s . Boards . Dodfley ...
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... received the- ory ; but does not proceed far in this explanation , before he denies the impermeability of glass to the electric matter . Paff- ing over fome frivolous experiments , brought in proof of his doctrine on this head ; we ...
... received the- ory ; but does not proceed far in this explanation , before he denies the impermeability of glass to the electric matter . Paff- ing over fome frivolous experiments , brought in proof of his doctrine on this head ; we ...
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... received and efteemed . To thefe are added in the prefent collection , a trea- tile entitled Parochialia , which , as his Editor informs us , has been long known to the clergy of his own diocefe ; Sacra pri- vata ; Maxims of Piety and ...
... received and efteemed . To thefe are added in the prefent collection , a trea- tile entitled Parochialia , which , as his Editor informs us , has been long known to the clergy of his own diocefe ; Sacra pri- vata ; Maxims of Piety and ...
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LAUGHTONS Progrefs c of Chrifti | 4 |
BANGOR Bishop of his Faft Sermon 314 | 7 |
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