The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 22Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1760 - 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 13
... equal to that received and reflected by the fame fpeculum from the fun , only a little paler : then place a thermometer , which is eafily moved by the leaft de- gree of heat or fire , as that of Drebbellius , in that reful- gent focus ...
... equal to that received and reflected by the fame fpeculum from the fun , only a little paler : then place a thermometer , which is eafily moved by the leaft de- gree of heat or fire , as that of Drebbellius , in that reful- gent focus ...
Page 331
... equal him in good fenfe ; and , in regard to fidelity , their pretenfions are , probably , equal also . With refpect to the matter of this third volume , it is not a conti , nuation of the Heroine's history , from the period at which ...
... equal him in good fenfe ; and , in regard to fidelity , their pretenfions are , probably , equal also . With refpect to the matter of this third volume , it is not a conti , nuation of the Heroine's history , from the period at which ...
Page 490
... equal under equal degrees of weight , as may be fhewn by the following plain and easy experiment . Let one end of a piece of packthread be fastened to a brick , and the other end to a common fcale for holding weights : then , having ...
... equal under equal degrees of weight , as may be fhewn by the following plain and easy experiment . Let one end of a piece of packthread be fastened to a brick , and the other end to a common fcale for holding weights : then , having ...
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