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 194
... Poor , and our ufual Policy respecting the Common People ; with Reasons why they have not hitherto been attended with Succefs ; and fuch Alterations offered to the Confideration of the Legislature , as may probably introduce a more ...
... Poor , and our ufual Policy respecting the Common People ; with Reasons why they have not hitherto been attended with Succefs ; and fuch Alterations offered to the Confideration of the Legislature , as may probably introduce a more ...
Page 195
... poor , it will only come to this question , Whether it is a better method to have them provided for by religious houfes ? Before the reformation , these houfes harboured incredible num- bers of poor perfons in England ; and we need only ...
... poor , it will only come to this question , Whether it is a better method to have them provided for by religious houfes ? Before the reformation , these houfes harboured incredible num- bers of poor perfons in England ; and we need only ...
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... Poor's - Laws of England , -which ( as they now ftand ) he looks upon to be univerfally encouragers of idlenes , drunkennefs , and tea - drinking amongst them . ' He therefore wishes for a total abolition of thofe laws , and that new ...
... Poor's - Laws of England , -which ( as they now ftand ) he looks upon to be univerfally encouragers of idlenes , drunkennefs , and tea - drinking amongst them . ' He therefore wishes for a total abolition of thofe laws , and that new ...
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