The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 72Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1785 - 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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... circumstances of extenuation , where killing becomes neceffary , although they were rightly actuated by the SPIRIT of it , as well as by the dictates of common fenfe , when they fubjoined to their verdict a recommenda- tion of Captain M ...
... circumstances of extenuation , where killing becomes neceffary , although they were rightly actuated by the SPIRIT of it , as well as by the dictates of common fenfe , when they fubjoined to their verdict a recommenda- tion of Captain M ...
Page 249
... circumstances the moft favourable to intimate union . Water being then the refult of this clofeft and moft intimate union , it feems impro- bable that it is ever decomposed by the affinity of any acid to its phlogifton . ' XXV . Mr ...
... circumstances the moft favourable to intimate union . Water being then the refult of this clofeft and moft intimate union , it feems impro- bable that it is ever decomposed by the affinity of any acid to its phlogifton . ' XXV . Mr ...
Page 457
... circumstances , and by a wish to improve them , fome of which to be fure appear in a ftrange point of view now , to other eyes as well as to thofe of our Author , we have rifen to plenty and to opu- lence . That a felfish policy may ...
... circumstances , and by a wish to improve them , fome of which to be fure appear in a ftrange point of view now , to other eyes as well as to thofe of our Author , we have rifen to plenty and to opu- lence . That a felfish policy may ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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