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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... able with refpect to the conftitution of nature , where we find innumerable proofs of infinite wifdom , and in the meaneft pro- ductions of which is exhibited an incomprehenfible exactness of art and workmanship ? It may be worth adding ...
... able with refpect to the conftitution of nature , where we find innumerable proofs of infinite wifdom , and in the meaneft pro- ductions of which is exhibited an incomprehenfible exactness of art and workmanship ? It may be worth adding ...
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... able to purchase our manufactures , and yet cannot well fubfift without them ; their lands , worn out with ftaple commodities for Britain , will no longer bear them ; the people , grown more numerous than formerly , now require the ...
... able to purchase our manufactures , and yet cannot well fubfift without them ; their lands , worn out with ftaple commodities for Britain , will no longer bear them ; the people , grown more numerous than formerly , now require the ...
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... able , read we be able , bgr , 1.6 , for Me , read We .. 96 , par . 4 , dele who . 922 97 , par . 2 , 1. 3 , for causes , read cafes . 104 , 1. ante penult . for fome , read foon . 129 , par . 2 , 1. penult . for far , read fair . การ เ ...
... able , read we be able , bgr , 1.6 , for Me , read We .. 96 , par . 4 , dele who . 922 97 , par . 2 , 1. 3 , for causes , read cafes . 104 , 1. ante penult . for fome , read foon . 129 , par . 2 , 1. penult . for far , read fair . การ เ ...
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