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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... cause of liberty , civil and religious , is the cause of Britain herfelf - nay it is the caufe of heaven ; and it was with inexpreffible fatisfaction that I beheld more than one of the gen- tlemen , who have written on the ties of Union ...
... cause of liberty , civil and religious , is the cause of Britain herfelf - nay it is the caufe of heaven ; and it was with inexpreffible fatisfaction that I beheld more than one of the gen- tlemen , who have written on the ties of Union ...
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... cause as a being abfolutely perfect . In the idea of abfolute perfection is implied infinite power , wisdom , and good- nefs ; and in thefe , a perfectly wife and good direction of all the occurrences in nature . The Deity cannot be an ...
... cause as a being abfolutely perfect . In the idea of abfolute perfection is implied infinite power , wisdom , and good- nefs ; and in thefe , a perfectly wife and good direction of all the occurrences in nature . The Deity cannot be an ...
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... cause , and then back again from the cause thus difcovered to the effect . Thus , in natural philofophy , by reasoning from particular facts we gain the knowledge of the general laws which obtain in nature , and afterwards apply these ...
... cause , and then back again from the cause thus difcovered to the effect . Thus , in natural philofophy , by reasoning from particular facts we gain the knowledge of the general laws which obtain in nature , and afterwards apply these ...
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