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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... thought , that in Becket he faw all thofe qualities , and , perhaps , only in him : it being no eafy matter to find fuch a perfon among his clergy . Him therefore he refolved to ad- vance to that dignity , at this critical time . The ...
... thought , that in Becket he faw all thofe qualities , and , perhaps , only in him : it being no eafy matter to find fuch a perfon among his clergy . Him therefore he refolved to ad- vance to that dignity , at this critical time . The ...
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... thought legal , and if it is not thought legal , how can we expect it should be paid ? I know not indeed , how far the legality of it can be proved , for it was certainly never intended either by the laws of God or man , that a mere ...
... thought legal , and if it is not thought legal , how can we expect it should be paid ? I know not indeed , how far the legality of it can be proved , for it was certainly never intended either by the laws of God or man , that a mere ...
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... thought fufficiently intelligible to thofe who had no previous acquaintance with the fubject , has , with a view of ... thoughts in the two treatifes must make them mutually illuflrative of of each other . In the work before us the 400 ...
... thought fufficiently intelligible to thofe who had no previous acquaintance with the fubject , has , with a view of ... thoughts in the two treatifes must make them mutually illuflrative of of each other . In the work before us the 400 ...
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