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 83
... nature , and deriving from the fame original with it our very no- tions of order , it seems very incredible that we should be able to correct nature , or to conceive an order greater and better than is to be found in it . There are two ...
... nature , and deriving from the fame original with it our very no- tions of order , it seems very incredible that we should be able to correct nature , or to conceive an order greater and better than is to be found in it . There are two ...
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... nature . Among the writers , fays he , who have attempted to distin- guifh , in the human character , its original qualities , and to point out the limits between nature and art , fome have repre- fented mankind in their firft condition ...
... nature . Among the writers , fays he , who have attempted to distin- guifh , in the human character , its original qualities , and to point out the limits between nature and art , fome have repre- fented mankind in their firft condition ...
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... nature , though more general , and operating according to a more extenfive rule or method , if its operations and effects are not uni- verfal : it can neither be paftic nature , nor animal is ftinct , nor human reafon , nor any other ...
... nature , though more general , and operating according to a more extenfive rule or method , if its operations and effects are not uni- verfal : it can neither be paftic nature , nor animal is ftinct , nor human reafon , nor any other ...
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