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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Page 49
... several other events of Henry's reign , contains the attempts of the king to bring the clergy into a dependance upon the civil go- vernment , the proceedings with regard to the conftitution of Clarendon , the oppofition of Becket to ...
... several other events of Henry's reign , contains the attempts of the king to bring the clergy into a dependance upon the civil go- vernment , the proceedings with regard to the conftitution of Clarendon , the oppofition of Becket to ...
Page 163
... several parts of a picture . This is different from defign , which confiders how each part fepa- rately taken concurs in producing a whole . It is an obvious principle , fays our Author , that one object at a time is enough to engage ...
... several parts of a picture . This is different from defign , which confiders how each part fepa- rately taken concurs in producing a whole . It is an obvious principle , fays our Author , that one object at a time is enough to engage ...
Page 428
... several topics , though the Author shews that he entertains fentiments upon fome doctrinal points , where- in the generality of our readers , we apprehend , will differ from him , yet his performance has a very confiderable fhare of ...
... several topics , though the Author shews that he entertains fentiments upon fome doctrinal points , where- in the generality of our readers , we apprehend , will differ from him , yet his performance has a very confiderable fhare of ...
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