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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... these antique remains , which carry fuch palpable marks of genius and tafte , infpires our author with penfive and fentimental re- flections on the tranfitory nature of human grandeur . These reflections muft appear natural , when we ...
... these antique remains , which carry fuch palpable marks of genius and tafte , infpires our author with penfive and fentimental re- flections on the tranfitory nature of human grandeur . These reflections muft appear natural , when we ...
Page 535
... these fluids on animal bodies , and examines the celebrated question of ani- mal magnetifm . This last object , which has of late years , made as much noife in France , in confequence of the magnetic mi- racles of Mefmer , as the ...
... these fluids on animal bodies , and examines the celebrated question of ani- mal magnetifm . This last object , which has of late years , made as much noife in France , in confequence of the magnetic mi- racles of Mefmer , as the ...
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... these powers upon the latter , our Author concludes , that these two kinds of powers are totally different - depend upon different caufes - act according to different laws , and have no influence , one upon the other , unless it be ...
... these powers upon the latter , our Author concludes , that these two kinds of powers are totally different - depend upon different caufes - act according to different laws , and have no influence , one upon the other , unless it be ...
Contents
FOTHERGILLs Works in Quarto | 6 |
SMYTHS Tour in the United States | 12 |
Aderne | 41 |
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