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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... prefent . We fhall conclude this article , there- fore , with what our judicious Author fays on the word laws , which is very ambiguous and indeterminate in its fignification , and has been often strangely mifapplied and abused . prefent ...
... prefent . We fhall conclude this article , there- fore , with what our judicious Author fays on the word laws , which is very ambiguous and indeterminate in its fignification , and has been often strangely mifapplied and abused . prefent ...
Page 157
... prefent . Of fuch , however , this pamphlet is principally compofed . Art . 18. The Dutch displayed ; or a fuccinct Account of the Bar- barities , Rapines , and Injuftices , committed by the Subjects of Holland upon thofe of England ...
... prefent . Of fuch , however , this pamphlet is principally compofed . Art . 18. The Dutch displayed ; or a fuccinct Account of the Bar- barities , Rapines , and Injuftices , committed by the Subjects of Holland upon thofe of England ...
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... prefent State of Great Britain and North America , with Re- gard to Agriculture , Population , Trade and Manufactures , im- partially confidered : containing a particular Account of the Dearth and Scarcity of the Neceffaries of Life in ...
... prefent State of Great Britain and North America , with Re- gard to Agriculture , Population , Trade and Manufactures , im- partially confidered : containing a particular Account of the Dearth and Scarcity of the Neceffaries of Life in ...
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