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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... lives and for years , I think it is a duty incumbent upon this houfe to addrefs his majesty on this occafion , and to reprefent to him the real ftate of the kingdom , & c . ' This propofal occafioned a long angry debate , which was thus ...
... lives and for years , I think it is a duty incumbent upon this houfe to addrefs his majesty on this occafion , and to reprefent to him the real ftate of the kingdom , & c . ' This propofal occafioned a long angry debate , which was thus ...
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... lives have done honour to re- ligion , cannot fail of being acceptable to almost every class of readers . The eulogiums are followed by twelve memoirs ; the three first which are by M. Gibert , and relate to the chronology of the Kings ...
... lives have done honour to re- ligion , cannot fail of being acceptable to almost every class of readers . The eulogiums are followed by twelve memoirs ; the three first which are by M. Gibert , and relate to the chronology of the Kings ...
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... live well than fpeak well ; and there is no principle but virtue that can lead them to live well : Fear is without ... lives : an establishment worthy of the highest praifes , and which will be an everlafting monument of the wisdom and ...
... live well than fpeak well ; and there is no principle but virtue that can lead them to live well : Fear is without ... lives : an establishment worthy of the highest praifes , and which will be an everlafting monument of the wisdom and ...
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