The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 38Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1768 - 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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... seems to have been an abfolute neceffity for it , to answer the exigence of the many foreign wars which the English were engaged in after the entrance of the Normans , and especially under the family of the Plantagenets ; the feudal ...
... seems to have been an abfolute neceffity for it , to answer the exigence of the many foreign wars which the English were engaged in after the entrance of the Normans , and especially under the family of the Plantagenets ; the feudal ...
Page 78
... seems , enjoys a respectable feat at a certain board ; he has told us what is generally credited to be a true reprefentation of our political fituation ; and as an individual , what can be do more ? Can he annihilate the department at ...
... seems , enjoys a respectable feat at a certain board ; he has told us what is generally credited to be a true reprefentation of our political fituation ; and as an individual , what can be do more ? Can he annihilate the department at ...
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... seems to be between 500 and 600 years old , -contains many and very important various readings , and is now in Dr. Kennicott's pof- feffion . In this manufcript the text is thus - even he fmote among the people SEVENTY men : and the ...
... seems to be between 500 and 600 years old , -contains many and very important various readings , and is now in Dr. Kennicott's pof- feffion . In this manufcript the text is thus - even he fmote among the people SEVENTY men : and the ...
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