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 118
... those indubitable maxims on which a wife man would . chufe to found his conduct . Setting afide the doctrines of na- tural philofophy , which are founded upon repeated experiment and obfervation , or upon a fpecies of reafoning equally ...
... those indubitable maxims on which a wife man would . chufe to found his conduct . Setting afide the doctrines of na- tural philofophy , which are founded upon repeated experiment and obfervation , or upon a fpecies of reafoning equally ...
Page 124
... those who are incapable of the at- tention and application of thought neceffary even for mathema- tical , and still more neceffary for purfuing a thread of meta- phyfical demonftration . Were it true , as is alledged , that no higher ...
... those who are incapable of the at- tention and application of thought neceffary even for mathema- tical , and still more neceffary for purfuing a thread of meta- phyfical demonftration . Were it true , as is alledged , that no higher ...
Page 383
... those who fhall be tempted to do evil , and you will have lefs to punish . In the fecond chapter , continuing the fubject , This mis- fortune , fays our Author , and this very hard law , with which I was fo fenfibly affected , prompted ...
... those who fhall be tempted to do evil , and you will have lefs to punish . In the fecond chapter , continuing the fubject , This mis- fortune , fays our Author , and this very hard law , with which I was fo fenfibly affected , prompted ...
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