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 387
... proper impreffion on the minds of thofe who have it their power to amend , or repeal , the irrational and inhu- man laws that were made in the times of ignorance , fuperftition and barbarity . The prefent State of Great Britain and ...
... proper impreffion on the minds of thofe who have it their power to amend , or repeal , the irrational and inhu- man laws that were made in the times of ignorance , fuperftition and barbarity . The prefent State of Great Britain and ...
Page 432
... proper for their lands , though we have endeavoured to get them introduced , by means of a bounty thereon : but it is not a bounty that they want , so much as a proper foil and climate , fuch as those upon the Miifippi , and Ohio ...
... proper for their lands , though we have endeavoured to get them introduced , by means of a bounty thereon : but it is not a bounty that they want , so much as a proper foil and climate , fuch as those upon the Miifippi , and Ohio ...
Page 438
... proper cultivation , or too great an indulgence of the extravagant ramblings of fancy , thofe principles are vitiated , and tafte becomes fometimes incorrect , and sometimes indelicate . The only method left in fuch a cafe , is to ...
... proper cultivation , or too great an indulgence of the extravagant ramblings of fancy , thofe principles are vitiated , and tafte becomes fometimes incorrect , and sometimes indelicate . The only method left in fuch a cafe , is to ...
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