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 223
... never received the im preffions of light , or that of an ear , which had never felt the impulfe of founds , would probably exhibit defects in the very ftructure of the organs themselves , arifing from their not being applied to their ...
... never received the im preffions of light , or that of an ear , which had never felt the impulfe of founds , would probably exhibit defects in the very ftructure of the organs themselves , arifing from their not being applied to their ...
Page 272
... never returned from Perfia . Therefore he never fet about rebuilding Jerufalem , or the temple there . Nor did he , at the time of writing that letter , intend to fet about it , unless he first fucceeded in the war with the Perfians ...
... never returned from Perfia . Therefore he never fet about rebuilding Jerufalem , or the temple there . Nor did he , at the time of writing that letter , intend to fet about it , unless he first fucceeded in the war with the Perfians ...
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... never bent himself to enflave the privilege of thinking ! But alas ! he fuffered himself to be involved in controverfies , which can never be ended ; and which gave him more trouble than all his illuftrious labours . For what were the ...
... never bent himself to enflave the privilege of thinking ! But alas ! he fuffered himself to be involved in controverfies , which can never be ended ; and which gave him more trouble than all his illuftrious labours . For what were the ...
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