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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Page 91
... important privilege . Soon after the establishment of the limited monarchy in 1720 , by the ariftocratical party , which raifed Ulrica Eleonora to the throne , many country gentlemen figned an addrefs to the diet , reprefenting the ...
... important privilege . Soon after the establishment of the limited monarchy in 1720 , by the ariftocratical party , which raifed Ulrica Eleonora to the throne , many country gentlemen figned an addrefs to the diet , reprefenting the ...
Page 504
... important phenomenon as that of elafticity , with the great and univerfal principle of attrac- tion , tends to reduce the operations of nature to a greater fim- plicity than that which multiplies the number of caufes em- ployed in her ...
... important phenomenon as that of elafticity , with the great and univerfal principle of attrac- tion , tends to reduce the operations of nature to a greater fim- plicity than that which multiplies the number of caufes em- ployed in her ...
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... important objects of anatomical fcience ; the organs , by which we receive all our fenfations , and which have an unknown , yet inconteftable influence in ail the operations of the human mind , treated in a novel manner , by a masterly ...
... important objects of anatomical fcience ; the organs , by which we receive all our fenfations , and which have an unknown , yet inconteftable influence in ail the operations of the human mind , treated in a novel manner , by a masterly ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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