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 81
... conclude , on account of unknown relations and connexions , that the feeming diforders are not really fuch , than we have , on the other hand , to conclude , on the like account , that the feem- ing order is not really fuch ; and that ...
... conclude , on account of unknown relations and connexions , that the feeming diforders are not really fuch , than we have , on the other hand , to conclude , on the like account , that the feem- ing order is not really fuch ; and that ...
Page 162
... conclude from the furious manner wherein , like a madman , he now rails and raves at the keview . But let him rail on- We wage no war with Bedlam , or the mint . Yet fhall not all the ill grounded fcurrility of this writer prevent us ...
... conclude from the furious manner wherein , like a madman , he now rails and raves at the keview . But let him rail on- We wage no war with Bedlam , or the mint . Yet fhall not all the ill grounded fcurrility of this writer prevent us ...
Page 376
... conclude , that there is any evident advantage in having fo overgrown a capital as London in fuch a kingdom as England ; but only that I do not find great force in the objections I have met with against it . That there may be others ...
... conclude , that there is any evident advantage in having fo overgrown a capital as London in fuch a kingdom as England ; but only that I do not find great force in the objections I have met with against it . That there may be others ...
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