The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 22Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1760 - 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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... several phenomena of Nature . That experiment is abfolutely neceffary to our affiftance , cannot be denied ; but , unless the genius and fagacity of the Obferver , in directing his enquiries , and drawing just con- clufions from ...
... several phenomena of Nature . That experiment is abfolutely neceffary to our affiftance , cannot be denied ; but , unless the genius and fagacity of the Obferver , in directing his enquiries , and drawing just con- clufions from ...
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... several parts or means , or to comprehend the whole , though the • whole be laid before us ; and we are often ready to ima- gine an error in thofe very parts , where , if we understood the whole , the greatest excellence of defign would ...
... several parts or means , or to comprehend the whole , though the • whole be laid before us ; and we are often ready to ima- gine an error in thofe very parts , where , if we understood the whole , the greatest excellence of defign would ...
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... several to have acted at different periods of their exiftence ; and informed us , in an Advertisement , that this volume makes ages of the world . ' Q. E. D. But as our Author has mainder appears , he may have recollected his fubject ...
... several to have acted at different periods of their exiftence ; and informed us , in an Advertisement , that this volume makes ages of the world . ' Q. E. D. But as our Author has mainder appears , he may have recollected his fubject ...
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