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 195
... truth , it becomes us to state thefe points in a proper light . Indeed , however defenfible he is in these particulars , yet he has committed blunders e- nough to ruin his credit as an Hiftorian . He tells us , that Stephen left his ...
... truth , it becomes us to state thefe points in a proper light . Indeed , however defenfible he is in these particulars , yet he has committed blunders e- nough to ruin his credit as an Hiftorian . He tells us , that Stephen left his ...
Page 241
... truth of Revelation , < and every fact in Sacred History , have been for establishing every facred fact , and every revealed truth as of neceflary belief to all . Thus , whilft our faith is by one party un- < reasonably contracted , it ...
... truth of Revelation , < and every fact in Sacred History , have been for establishing every facred fact , and every revealed truth as of neceflary belief to all . Thus , whilft our faith is by one party un- < reasonably contracted , it ...
Page 409
... truth to the bottom , and to maintain our opinions with all the strength of reasoning , and bold energy of expreffion . Their Government , on the contrary , lays them under fuch po- litical restraints , that they muft be content to ...
... truth to the bottom , and to maintain our opinions with all the strength of reasoning , and bold energy of expreffion . Their Government , on the contrary , lays them under fuch po- litical restraints , that they muft be content to ...
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