The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 36Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1767 - 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 142
... Author , upon inquiry , it will be found to be otherwife ; for , though the Talmudifts do not mention the names , nor exprefs the figures of the vowel - points , they manifeftly fuppofe them ; which fhews they were in being in their ...
... Author , upon inquiry , it will be found to be otherwife ; for , though the Talmudifts do not mention the names , nor exprefs the figures of the vowel - points , they manifeftly fuppofe them ; which fhews they were in being in their ...
Page 278
... Author fays , of great ingenuity , fo- briety of manners , and good - natured in himself . But his zeal for the religion which he had embraced , was exceffive , and de- generated into bigotry and fuperftition ; infomuch that with all ...
... Author fays , of great ingenuity , fo- briety of manners , and good - natured in himself . But his zeal for the religion which he had embraced , was exceffive , and de- generated into bigotry and fuperftition ; infomuch that with all ...
Page 451
... author of the Confef fional could not avoid obferving feveral flaws in the learned Pro- feffor's foundation , which have , in a great measure , been left untouched by the Examiner ; who , perceiving that it would be fufficient for his ...
... author of the Confef fional could not avoid obferving feveral flaws in the learned Pro- feffor's foundation , which have , in a great measure , been left untouched by the Examiner ; who , perceiving that it would be fufficient for his ...
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