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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... laft . Conclufion of Commentaries on the Laws of England . Book the Second . By William Blackstone , Efq ; See Review for November laft , p . 363 . E have the pleasure of attending the learned writer of thefe commentaries to that part ...
... laft . Conclufion of Commentaries on the Laws of England . Book the Second . By William Blackstone , Efq ; See Review for November laft , p . 363 . E have the pleasure of attending the learned writer of thefe commentaries to that part ...
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... laft fhamefully exhibited to the public as burning in the socket , in a poem intituled , The Refignation , the laft and the worst of all Dr. Young's performances . This he published but a short time before his death , which happened ...
... laft fhamefully exhibited to the public as burning in the socket , in a poem intituled , The Refignation , the laft and the worst of all Dr. Young's performances . This he published but a short time before his death , which happened ...
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... laft , greater accuracy . Here then we have one charac teristical indication of a genius for philofophical fcience ; and that is , accuracy of imagination . Its affociations of ideas will be perfectly juft and exact , no extraneous ones ...
... laft , greater accuracy . Here then we have one charac teristical indication of a genius for philofophical fcience ; and that is , accuracy of imagination . Its affociations of ideas will be perfectly juft and exact , no extraneous ones ...
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