The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 34Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1766 - 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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... neral worthip the green corn dance feems to be the principal , which is , as I have been told , performed in a very folemn man- ner , in a large fquare before the town - houfe door ; the motion here is very flow , and the fong in which ...
... neral worthip the green corn dance feems to be the principal , which is , as I have been told , performed in a very folemn man- ner , in a large fquare before the town - houfe door ; the motion here is very flow , and the fong in which ...
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... neral divifion . The first fpecies of pulfe , fays he , fhall be called , the pulse with too much fenfibility , a pulse of irritation , ner- vous , convulfive , CRITICAL . This pulfe indicates no critical fecretion , which is ...
... neral divifion . The first fpecies of pulfe , fays he , fhall be called , the pulse with too much fenfibility , a pulse of irritation , ner- vous , convulfive , CRITICAL . This pulfe indicates no critical fecretion , which is ...
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... neral concerning the reality of the Author's fyftem , it were cer- tainly unjust to fuppofe it merely the produce of an inventive genius , especially when we find , by the cafes annexed to his defcription of each particular pulfe , that ...
... neral concerning the reality of the Author's fyftem , it were cer- tainly unjust to fuppofe it merely the produce of an inventive genius , especially when we find , by the cafes annexed to his defcription of each particular pulfe , that ...
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... neral ; queftions are offered to Dr. J's friends , respecting fomet curious anecdotes of the life and literary conduct of that gen- tleman ; -whether Dr. J. deferves better treatment than he has received , and how far Mr. K. is ...
... neral ; queftions are offered to Dr. J's friends , respecting fomet curious anecdotes of the life and literary conduct of that gen- tleman ; -whether Dr. J. deferves better treatment than he has received , and how far Mr. K. is ...
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... neral Ch . Montagu , and Lady Eliz . Villiers , Viscountess Gran- difon , engraved feparately , and set aside of each other : but the lady's arms are in a lozenge , which we apprehend to be wrong ; that method seeming to belong only to ...
... neral Ch . Montagu , and Lady Eliz . Villiers , Viscountess Gran- difon , engraved feparately , and set aside of each other : but the lady's arms are in a lozenge , which we apprehend to be wrong ; that method seeming to belong only to ...
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