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 222
... relating to the ftate of nature . Among the writers , fays he , who have attempted to distin- guifh , in the human character , its original qualities , and to point out the limits between nature and art , fome have repre- fented mankind ...
... relating to the ftate of nature . Among the writers , fays he , who have attempted to distin- guifh , in the human character , its original qualities , and to point out the limits between nature and art , fome have repre- fented mankind ...
Page 249
... relating to the conduct of Lord C. and the affairs of the Company . POLITICA L. Art . 56. A Letter to the Earl of Bute , upon his Union with the Earl of Chatham , in Support of the Popular Measure of a Four Shil- lings Land Tax , Folio ...
... relating to the conduct of Lord C. and the affairs of the Company . POLITICA L. Art . 56. A Letter to the Earl of Bute , upon his Union with the Earl of Chatham , in Support of the Popular Measure of a Four Shil- lings Land Tax , Folio ...
Page 443
... relating to experiments made by Sir William Petty and other gentlemen on the firft establish- ment of the Royal Society ; which are much better known , from the memoirs already exifting . Thefe with fome letters merely complimentary ...
... relating to experiments made by Sir William Petty and other gentlemen on the firft establish- ment of the Royal Society ; which are much better known , from the memoirs already exifting . Thefe with fome letters merely complimentary ...
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