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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... confiderable part of the new buildings then in hand at that college , which were accord- ingly executed by the help of this benefaction . The turn of his mind leading him to divinity , he quitted the law , which he had never practifed ...
... confiderable part of the new buildings then in hand at that college , which were accord- ingly executed by the help of this benefaction . The turn of his mind leading him to divinity , he quitted the law , which he had never practifed ...
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... confiderable Irish refugees in the French fervice , and of the party which efpoufed the intereft of the Pre- tender to the crown of Great Britain . Toward this party our Author feems , at that time , to have been well inclined ; al ...
... confiderable Irish refugees in the French fervice , and of the party which efpoufed the intereft of the Pre- tender to the crown of Great Britain . Toward this party our Author feems , at that time , to have been well inclined ; al ...
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Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths. event , which has had a confiderable influence on the general fate of things in the world ; fuch as the establishment of a new empire hich in procefs of time has fwallowed up others ; the downfall of a ...
Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths. event , which has had a confiderable influence on the general fate of things in the world ; fuch as the establishment of a new empire hich in procefs of time has fwallowed up others ; the downfall of a ...
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