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 87
... tion to render them true , as will render them of no use to the purpose which they are intended to ferve . In order to prove this , he first considers the nature and the foundation of that affurance which experience gives us of the laws ...
... tion to render them true , as will render them of no use to the purpose which they are intended to ferve . In order to prove this , he first considers the nature and the foundation of that affurance which experience gives us of the laws ...
Page 389
... tion ; fhewing the causes of these public calamities ; their ruin- ous confequences in population , trade , and manufactures ; with the ways of preventing thefe growing evils . To fee fuch a dearth and fcarcity of provifions , as have ...
... tion ; fhewing the causes of these public calamities ; their ruin- ous confequences in population , trade , and manufactures ; with the ways of preventing thefe growing evils . To fee fuch a dearth and fcarcity of provifions , as have ...
Page 431
... tion with fuch commodities as fhe has not of her own , and to purchase their neceflaries from Britain by that means . They fhould fupply their mother country with the materials , of which she has few or none of her own , and get their ...
... tion with fuch commodities as fhe has not of her own , and to purchase their neceflaries from Britain by that means . They fhould fupply their mother country with the materials , of which she has few or none of her own , and get their ...
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