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 134
... feveral obfervations in favour of Maforetic diligence and accuracy , he afks , And what have the Maforetes done in this refpect , but what the learned Dr. Kennicot is now coing , or getting done in the feveral libraries in Europe ; that ...
... feveral obfervations in favour of Maforetic diligence and accuracy , he afks , And what have the Maforetes done in this refpect , but what the learned Dr. Kennicot is now coing , or getting done in the feveral libraries in Europe ; that ...
Page 153
... feveral old English tranflations of various claffical authers , with which Shakespeare might have been , and more than probably was converfant : as Mr. F. fhews , in feveral notable inftances , felected from those very paffages which ...
... feveral old English tranflations of various claffical authers , with which Shakespeare might have been , and more than probably was converfant : as Mr. F. fhews , in feveral notable inftances , felected from those very paffages which ...
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... feveral Derivatives are reduced to their genuine Roots , their specific Significations from thence illuftrated , and exemplified by Paffages cited at Length from Scripture , the feveral Verfions of which are occafionally corrected . The ...
... feveral Derivatives are reduced to their genuine Roots , their specific Significations from thence illuftrated , and exemplified by Paffages cited at Length from Scripture , the feveral Verfions of which are occafionally corrected . The ...
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