The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 38Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1768 - 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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Page 189
... laws for feveral ages paft , but annexed greater penalties to fome immoralities and impieties than had been known in the country they left , determined many others to deferve the notice of the civil magiftrate , which would have escaped ...
... laws for feveral ages paft , but annexed greater penalties to fome immoralities and impieties than had been known in the country they left , determined many others to deferve the notice of the civil magiftrate , which would have escaped ...
Page 393
... laws of the land , appears in a letter from the fame fecretary to one Leander a monk , who had been a fuitor to the king for leave to come into England to fee his relations , which licence the fecretary communicated to the monk in the ...
... laws of the land , appears in a letter from the fame fecretary to one Leander a monk , who had been a fuitor to the king for leave to come into England to fee his relations , which licence the fecretary communicated to the monk in the ...
Page 413
... laws , namely the power which makes thofe laws , and from which they derive their authority . The freedom therefore of any country wholly depends upon the hands in which the fupreme legislative power is lodged ; and the liberty of a ...
... laws , namely the power which makes thofe laws , and from which they derive their authority . The freedom therefore of any country wholly depends upon the hands in which the fupreme legislative power is lodged ; and the liberty of a ...
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