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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... fubject of reli- gion , which , in almost every age , has had a confiderable influ- ence on civil fociety : this point , however , our Author has omitted ; what his reafons were , we pretend not to know . The fubject is indeed of a very ...
... fubject of reli- gion , which , in almost every age , has had a confiderable influ- ence on civil fociety : this point , however , our Author has omitted ; what his reafons were , we pretend not to know . The fubject is indeed of a very ...
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... fubject of our attention ; and they require not only to be enumerated , but to be diftinétly confidered . The difpofitions which refer to the prefervation of the in- dividual , while they continue to operate in the manner of in- ft ...
... fubject of our attention ; and they require not only to be enumerated , but to be diftinétly confidered . The difpofitions which refer to the prefervation of the in- dividual , while they continue to operate in the manner of in- ft ...
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... fubject may be of ufe to his countrymen , as the difputes about inoculation are ftill warmly carried on in France , but will find few readers , we apprehend , in this coun- try , where the fubject is well understood , and where fome ...
... fubject may be of ufe to his countrymen , as the difputes about inoculation are ftill warmly carried on in France , but will find few readers , we apprehend , in this coun- try , where the fubject is well understood , and where fome ...
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