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 64
... probably been already feen in fome measure why I chufe to con- ceive of it as produced by conftant influences , rather than fuch an original establishment as I have mentioned . - It will appear to fome , that an original establishment ...
... probably been already feen in fome measure why I chufe to con- ceive of it as produced by conftant influences , rather than fuch an original establishment as I have mentioned . - It will appear to fome , that an original establishment ...
Page 223
... probably , on this fubject , teach us nothing important , or new : we are to take the hiftory of every active Being from his conduct in the fi- tuation to which he is formed , not from his appearance in any forced or uncommon condition ...
... probably , on this fubject , teach us nothing important , or new : we are to take the hiftory of every active Being from his conduct in the fi- tuation to which he is formed , not from his appearance in any forced or uncommon condition ...
Page 421
... probably will ever be able to do it . For thofe parochial prifons are , in gene ral , under fuch mif - management , as to render them a real ter- ror to all who are ever likely to become the miferable inhabi- tants of them . And as this ...
... probably will ever be able to do it . For thofe parochial prifons are , in gene ral , under fuch mif - management , as to render them a real ter- ror to all who are ever likely to become the miferable inhabi- tants of them . And as this ...
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