The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 64Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1781 - 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 177
... probably inferted from Chronicles , in fome manufcript of Genefis , into the mar- gin , and thence taken into the text . This interpolation is fo very old , as to be found in all the verfions , and likewife in the Samaritan text . Dr ...
... probably inferted from Chronicles , in fome manufcript of Genefis , into the mar- gin , and thence taken into the text . This interpolation is fo very old , as to be found in all the verfions , and likewife in the Samaritan text . Dr ...
Page 273
... probably contain one third of their weight of pure alcali : whereas the white Mufcovy afhes are faid by Dr. Home to yield only one eighth part . This new pot - afh is of a greyish white appearance , and deliquefces a little in a moist ...
... probably contain one third of their weight of pure alcali : whereas the white Mufcovy afhes are faid by Dr. Home to yield only one eighth part . This new pot - afh is of a greyish white appearance , and deliquefces a little in a moist ...
Page 319
... probably afford me a clear and decifive proof , that electricians have been deceived on the fuppofed directions of the ftar and the brush . I have alfo a variety of new experiments both in magnetism and electricity , to fupport what I ...
... probably afford me a clear and decifive proof , that electricians have been deceived on the fuppofed directions of the ftar and the brush . I have alfo a variety of new experiments both in magnetism and electricity , to fupport what I ...
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LAUGHTONS Progrefs c of Chrifti | 4 |
BANGOR Bishop of his Faft Sermon 314 | 7 |
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