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 152
... fays , that the year 539 terminated precisely at the end of Daniel's time from the call of the Gentiles . And in confirmation of this opinion , A. D. 539 , Vitiges befieged old Rome , when it underwent both famine and peftilence , and ...
... fays , that the year 539 terminated precisely at the end of Daniel's time from the call of the Gentiles . And in confirmation of this opinion , A. D. 539 , Vitiges befieged old Rome , when it underwent both famine and peftilence , and ...
Page 276
... fays nothing of any attempt to rebuild the temple at Jerufalem . It is inconceivable , our Author thinks , that he fhould omit it , though he insists , as he does more than once , on the ruinous condition , in which the temple had been ...
... fays nothing of any attempt to rebuild the temple at Jerufalem . It is inconceivable , our Author thinks , that he fhould omit it , though he insists , as he does more than once , on the ruinous condition , in which the temple had been ...
Page 406
... fays Mr. W. was falfe , for the whole ridicule of thofe two pieces was confined to certain myfteries , which formerly the unplaced and unpenfioned Mr. P- did not think himself obliged even to affect to believe . He added another charge ...
... fays Mr. W. was falfe , for the whole ridicule of thofe two pieces was confined to certain myfteries , which formerly the unplaced and unpenfioned Mr. P- did not think himself obliged even to affect to believe . He added another charge ...
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