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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... religion ; a religion founded on juft notions of the Deity , as a Being who regards equally every fincere worshipper , and by whom all are alike favoured as far as they act up to the light they enjoy ; a religion which confifts in the ...
... religion ; a religion founded on juft notions of the Deity , as a Being who regards equally every fincere worshipper , and by whom all are alike favoured as far as they act up to the light they enjoy ; a religion which confifts in the ...
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... RELIGION flourish ! They cannot be very great and happy if it does not . But let it be a bet- ter religion than most of those which have been hitherto profeffed in the world . Let it be a religion which enforces moral obligations ; not ...
... RELIGION flourish ! They cannot be very great and happy if it does not . But let it be a bet- ter religion than most of those which have been hitherto profeffed in the world . Let it be a religion which enforces moral obligations ; not ...
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... religion ; and the Chriftian religion is to be the subject of the third . The fir part affords our Author occafion to confider a mul . titude of objects of the most interesting and inftructive kind , on which he cafts fome rays of light ...
... religion ; and the Chriftian religion is to be the subject of the third . The fir part affords our Author occafion to confider a mul . titude of objects of the most interesting and inftructive kind , on which he cafts fome rays of light ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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