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 137
... fuppofed change took place ; what I undertook to fhew was no more than that it is probable that the ancient letters of the Jews , and which they have always retained , are the fquare letters , as they are commonly called , or thofe in ...
... fuppofed change took place ; what I undertook to fhew was no more than that it is probable that the ancient letters of the Jews , and which they have always retained , are the fquare letters , as they are commonly called , or thofe in ...
Page 341
... fuppofed ftandards of politeness and civilization ; and where our own features do not appear , we appre- hend , that there is nothing which deferves to be known . But it is pro- bable that here , as in many other cafes , we are ill ...
... fuppofed ftandards of politeness and civilization ; and where our own features do not appear , we appre- hend , that there is nothing which deferves to be known . But it is pro- bable that here , as in many other cafes , we are ill ...
Page 454
... fuppofed to be gifted as above , the more occafion they would have to be fatisfied of the fincerity and pure confcience of candidates for the miniftry fome other way , and ( what is ftill more to the Profeffor's purpofe ) the more must ...
... fuppofed to be gifted as above , the more occafion they would have to be fatisfied of the fincerity and pure confcience of candidates for the miniftry fome other way , and ( what is ftill more to the Profeffor's purpofe ) the more must ...
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