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 77
... observes the expence of levying it , need be no more , proportionally , than that of the prefent land - tax . The propofers of schemes are generally very fanguine as to the fuccefs of them , but if the advantages of fuch a tranflation ...
... observes the expence of levying it , need be no more , proportionally , than that of the prefent land - tax . The propofers of schemes are generally very fanguine as to the fuccefs of them , but if the advantages of fuch a tranflation ...
Page 198
... observes , unhappy delinquents never fail to give fufficient notice long beforehand of what may be reasonably expected from their idlenefs , extravagance , or fome other fufpicious circumftances . ' 6 To conclude , this Inquiry contains ...
... observes , unhappy delinquents never fail to give fufficient notice long beforehand of what may be reasonably expected from their idlenefs , extravagance , or fome other fufpicious circumftances . ' 6 To conclude , this Inquiry contains ...
Page 512
... observes that Be- ring was , in this inftance , mistaken , because the records at Ja- kutzk mention another point in latitude 70 ° , which is farther to the eaft , and is feparated from America by a narrow ftreight only . By reflecting ...
... observes that Be- ring was , in this inftance , mistaken , because the records at Ja- kutzk mention another point in latitude 70 ° , which is farther to the eaft , and is feparated from America by a narrow ftreight only . By reflecting ...
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