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 280
... principles of this fcience , taking the affairs of the world as they are , without minutely enquiring into the equity of the prefent diftribution of property , or disturbing the fettled principles of governments , is the defign of the ...
... principles of this fcience , taking the affairs of the world as they are , without minutely enquiring into the equity of the prefent diftribution of property , or disturbing the fettled principles of governments , is the defign of the ...
Page 283
... principles the most obvious truths , I dread the imputa- tion of pedantry , and of pretending to turn common sense into fcience . If I follow thefe principles through a minute de- tail , I may appear trifling . I therefore hope the ...
... principles the most obvious truths , I dread the imputa- tion of pedantry , and of pretending to turn common sense into fcience . If I follow thefe principles through a minute de- tail , I may appear trifling . I therefore hope the ...
Page 464
... principles of political oeconomy ; in the introduction to this . I fhew that the ruling principle of the fcience ... principles , operating against the free and manly fpirit of the nation , that brought Charles the first to the fcaffold ...
... principles of political oeconomy ; in the introduction to this . I fhew that the ruling principle of the fcience ... principles , operating against the free and manly fpirit of the nation , that brought Charles the first to the fcaffold ...
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