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 216
... use among us , and offers his own work as a means to free this part of the facred writings from thofe falfe tranflations , which , he fays , at prefent deform it , and render it abfolutely unintelligible to all common readers . Indeed ...
... use among us , and offers his own work as a means to free this part of the facred writings from thofe falfe tranflations , which , he fays , at prefent deform it , and render it abfolutely unintelligible to all common readers . Indeed ...
Page 260
... use of in graduating the limbs of those accurate inftruments . The requifites , fays Mr. Bird , for the performance of this work are as follow . A fcale of equal parts , by which the radius may be measured to 0,001 of an inch , must be ...
... use of in graduating the limbs of those accurate inftruments . The requifites , fays Mr. Bird , for the performance of this work are as follow . A fcale of equal parts , by which the radius may be measured to 0,001 of an inch , must be ...
Page 339
... use of the talent , except in their treaties and tranfactions with the Greeks and fome eaftern nations . - The Greeks use it perpe- tually , and their nummulary talent was fixty pounds . The word talent does not , perhaps , occur in the ...
... use of the talent , except in their treaties and tranfactions with the Greeks and fome eaftern nations . - The Greeks use it perpe- tually , and their nummulary talent was fixty pounds . The word talent does not , perhaps , occur in the ...
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