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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... present as well as future evil . In fhort , we confider it , under this view , as contributing to wean us from low and unlawful gratifications , to divert us from purfuits , which are attended with vexation and vanity , and as therefore ...
... present as well as future evil . In fhort , we confider it , under this view , as contributing to wean us from low and unlawful gratifications , to divert us from purfuits , which are attended with vexation and vanity , and as therefore ...
Page 173
... present at his mar- riage ; who follows him into jail ; and lastly to Bedlam . The thought is rather unnatural , and the moral certainly culpable . - The compofition is bad . The group of the woman fainting , is a round heavy mafs : and ...
... present at his mar- riage ; who follows him into jail ; and lastly to Bedlam . The thought is rather unnatural , and the moral certainly culpable . - The compofition is bad . The group of the woman fainting , is a round heavy mafs : and ...
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... present state of the trade of Maffachufets - Bay : We fhall finish this fecond part of our history with a few remarks upon the trade of the province at this day , compared with its trade in 1692.099 The other governments of New ...
... present state of the trade of Maffachufets - Bay : We fhall finish this fecond part of our history with a few remarks upon the trade of the province at this day , compared with its trade in 1692.099 The other governments of New ...
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