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 85
... opinion ; whether our opinion is changed without reafon ; or whether we are to make a declaration that is contrary to our opinion ? Are we to concur in this addrefs implicitly , at the good pleasure of thofe who confider us at their ...
... opinion ; whether our opinion is changed without reafon ; or whether we are to make a declaration that is contrary to our opinion ? Are we to concur in this addrefs implicitly , at the good pleasure of thofe who confider us at their ...
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... opinion was certainly against the peace ; and it was equally certain that this popular opinion was the opinion of the house two months ago . What had happened to change that opinion , he faid , he could not guefs , any more than what ...
... opinion was certainly against the peace ; and it was equally certain that this popular opinion was the opinion of the house two months ago . What had happened to change that opinion , he faid , he could not guefs , any more than what ...
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... opinion concern- ing the authenticity of this line , we cannot help obferving that there are two circumstances which feem to prove its illegitimacy . The fift is the word leva introduced before ; which , fuppofing finiftra to ftand ...
... opinion concern- ing the authenticity of this line , we cannot help obferving that there are two circumstances which feem to prove its illegitimacy . The fift is the word leva introduced before ; which , fuppofing finiftra to ftand ...
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