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 281
... thing neceflary or ufeful is found wanting , if any thing provided is loft or mifapplied , if any fervant , any ani- mal , is fupernumerary or useless , if any one fick or infirm iş neglected , we immediately perceive a want of oeconomy ...
... thing neceflary or ufeful is found wanting , if any thing provided is loft or mifapplied , if any fervant , any ani- mal , is fupernumerary or useless , if any one fick or infirm iş neglected , we immediately perceive a want of oeconomy ...
Page 466
... things which would otherwife be quite vague and uncertain . 6 I. The first thing to be known of any manufacture when it comes to be fold , is , how much of it a perfon can perform in a day , a week , a month , according to the nature of ...
... things which would otherwife be quite vague and uncertain . 6 I. The first thing to be known of any manufacture when it comes to be fold , is , how much of it a perfon can perform in a day , a week , a month , according to the nature of ...
Page 475
... thing has no other bounds than the extent of the faculties of the buyer . In like manner , in other countries where there is almoft no coin , nor credit , it may be impofible for the highest demand to raife the price of fuch things even ...
... thing has no other bounds than the extent of the faculties of the buyer . In like manner , in other countries where there is almoft no coin , nor credit , it may be impofible for the highest demand to raife the price of fuch things even ...
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