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 115
... religion on a firm and immoveable foundation , is juftly entitled to , and will certainly meet with , a favourable reception from every fincere friend to virtue and to his country . The ingenious Author of this appeal is of opinion ...
... religion on a firm and immoveable foundation , is juftly entitled to , and will certainly meet with , a favourable reception from every fincere friend to virtue and to his country . The ingenious Author of this appeal is of opinion ...
Page 121
... religion , which contending divines had employ- ed against each other . And the friends of religion , not aware of the confequence , did , partly through zeal for the truth , and partly from a habit of difputing , and a confidence of ...
... religion , which contending divines had employ- ed against each other . And the friends of religion , not aware of the confequence , did , partly through zeal for the truth , and partly from a habit of difputing , and a confidence of ...
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... religion ; for each of these obje & s ought to have evidence for its diftinguishing character . There is no difficulty , in this respect , as to the mathematical sciences . A geometrician would be laughed at , who fhould employ probable ...
... religion ; for each of these obje & s ought to have evidence for its diftinguishing character . There is no difficulty , in this respect , as to the mathematical sciences . A geometrician would be laughed at , who fhould employ probable ...
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