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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... reafon ; be- cause the youngest fon , by reafon of his tender age , is not fo capable as the reft of his brethren to help himself . Other au- thors have indeed given a much ftranger reafon for this cuftom , as if the lord of the fee had ...
... reafon ; be- cause the youngest fon , by reafon of his tender age , is not fo capable as the reft of his brethren to help himself . Other au- thors have indeed given a much ftranger reafon for this cuftom , as if the lord of the fee had ...
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... reafon to believe that it will always happen * . For ought In an effay published in vol . 53d of the Philofophical Transactions , what is faid here and in the last note is proved by mathematical demon- ftration , and a method fhewn of ...
... reafon to believe that it will always happen * . For ought In an effay published in vol . 53d of the Philofophical Transactions , what is faid here and in the last note is proved by mathematical demon- ftration , and a method fhewn of ...
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... reafon and the intereft of fociety are concerned : for he acknowleges they are excluded by the Chriftian revelation , to which he profefics an implicit deference . There are fome curious obfervations under this head , but we have only ...
... reafon and the intereft of fociety are concerned : for he acknowleges they are excluded by the Chriftian revelation , to which he profefics an implicit deference . There are fome curious obfervations under this head , but we have only ...
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