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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... Method of Computation . IT T is the province of Hiftory , fays the fenfible Author of this Effay , to give a relation of remarkable events , and thence to judge of the caufes that produced them . It is , on the contrary , the defign of ...
... Method of Computation . IT T is the province of Hiftory , fays the fenfible Author of this Effay , to give a relation of remarkable events , and thence to judge of the caufes that produced them . It is , on the contrary , the defign of ...
Page 301
... Method of Painting in the Man- ner of the Antients . To which is added , a fure and eafy Me- thod of fixing of Crayons . By J. H. Müntz . 8vo . 3s . fewed . Webley . " A S the publication of the discovery , made by the inge- . nious ...
... Method of Painting in the Man- ner of the Antients . To which is added , a fure and eafy Me- thod of fixing of Crayons . By J. H. Müntz . 8vo . 3s . fewed . Webley . " A S the publication of the discovery , made by the inge- . nious ...
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... method of fixing Crayons has been long a famous defi- deratum among Painters the pleafing effects , and perishable qualities of which kind of painting , as our Artist juftly ob- ferves , render any encomium on his difcovery fuperfluous ...
... method of fixing Crayons has been long a famous defi- deratum among Painters the pleafing effects , and perishable qualities of which kind of painting , as our Artist juftly ob- ferves , render any encomium on his difcovery fuperfluous ...
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