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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... those of men , as the heaven is above the earth ? How much more incapable must we neceffarily be , of eftimating the fitnefs of things and events ? How much more liable to judge erroneously , where all that we fee , or can difcern , is ...
... those of men , as the heaven is above the earth ? How much more incapable must we neceffarily be , of eftimating the fitnefs of things and events ? How much more liable to judge erroneously , where all that we fee , or can difcern , is ...
Page 367
... those traitors ? " How ftrongly have I encouraged our young people to bring " me thofe marks of their valour , for which they were to be " rewarded with honour and glory ? " I have done fomething more ; for I. have removed every ...
... those traitors ? " How ftrongly have I encouraged our young people to bring " me thofe marks of their valour , for which they were to be " rewarded with honour and glory ? " I have done fomething more ; for I. have removed every ...
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... those who act under a King , be his title what it " will , than for those who act under any other power . And furely the power of a King is fo great and high , and fo " univerfally understood and reverenced by the people of this ...
... those who act under a King , be his title what it " will , than for those who act under any other power . And furely the power of a King is fo great and high , and fo " univerfally understood and reverenced by the people of this ...
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