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 67
... person that ever was prefented to a living in the diocefe of Bangor , who was unacquainted with the Welch language . There have been two or three prefented before Dr. Bowles , amongst them a nephew of Julius Cæfar , the Maf ter of the ...
... person that ever was prefented to a living in the diocefe of Bangor , who was unacquainted with the Welch language . There have been two or three prefented before Dr. Bowles , amongst them a nephew of Julius Cæfar , the Maf ter of the ...
Page 186
... persons or companies would have been difcouraged from supporting a colony , by the long continued expence and outlet , without any return . No encou❤ ragement could be expected from the public . The advantages of com ... merce from the ...
... persons or companies would have been difcouraged from supporting a colony , by the long continued expence and outlet , without any return . No encou❤ ragement could be expected from the public . The advantages of com ... merce from the ...
Page 261
... persons in the room may produce the fame effect as the fun , I never admit more than one , as an affiltant : neither muft any fire be suffered in the room , till the principal points are done . The above being understood , it was eafy ...
... persons in the room may produce the fame effect as the fun , I never admit more than one , as an affiltant : neither muft any fire be suffered in the room , till the principal points are done . The above being understood , it was eafy ...
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