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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... thing new , nor the curious , any thing entertaining , on fo dry a topic . Nevertheless , we may venture to say , that the learned Reader will not find himself uninformed , or the cu- rious unentertained , by the perufal of this little ...
... thing new , nor the curious , any thing entertaining , on fo dry a topic . Nevertheless , we may venture to say , that the learned Reader will not find himself uninformed , or the cu- rious unentertained , by the perufal of this little ...
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... thing neceffary to true religion , but wants fomething befides to render it compleat ; or whatever doc- trines they be , which men may believe and profess , and yet continue deftitute of true religion , cannot belong to the effence of ...
... thing neceffary to true religion , but wants fomething befides to render it compleat ; or whatever doc- trines they be , which men may believe and profess , and yet continue deftitute of true religion , cannot belong to the effence of ...
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... thing that I fhould judge neceffary ; that the fuccours therefore ' would be regulated by their wants ; for I could never judge it proper to promise them fuccours , which they had no need of , and by their memorial it did not appear ...
... thing that I fhould judge neceffary ; that the fuccours therefore ' would be regulated by their wants ; for I could never judge it proper to promise them fuccours , which they had no need of , and by their memorial it did not appear ...
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