The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 34Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1766 - 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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... crown - piece , which is ornamented with beads , feathers , wampum , ftained deers hair , and fuch like baubles . The ears are flit and stretched to an enormous fize , putting the person who undergoes the operation to incredible pain ...
... crown - piece , which is ornamented with beads , feathers , wampum , ftained deers hair , and fuch like baubles . The ears are flit and stretched to an enormous fize , putting the person who undergoes the operation to incredible pain ...
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... crown of Great Britain , by the treaty of Fountainbleau , in 1762 . His Britannic Majefty being abfolute fovereign of the foil , has the appointment of the governors in both of the Floridas . • The The foil of Eaft Florida is not fo ...
... crown of Great Britain , by the treaty of Fountainbleau , in 1762 . His Britannic Majefty being abfolute fovereign of the foil , has the appointment of the governors in both of the Floridas . • The The foil of Eaft Florida is not fo ...
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... and deficient even in point of grammar ; when we find the hand - bill of a C - p - Doctor coarfely fpun into a half crown book , with the two re- fpectable fpectable letters M. D. in the title - page ; 74 MONTHLY CATALOGUE ,
... and deficient even in point of grammar ; when we find the hand - bill of a C - p - Doctor coarfely fpun into a half crown book , with the two re- fpectable fpectable letters M. D. in the title - page ; 74 MONTHLY CATALOGUE ,
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... crown agreed to claim their temporal rights from the laws of the land only . " One would think therefore , that when churchmen had changed their bad principles for better , the quakers might have done fo too . To be candid , I will not ...
... crown agreed to claim their temporal rights from the laws of the land only . " One would think therefore , that when churchmen had changed their bad principles for better , the quakers might have done fo too . To be candid , I will not ...
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... crown , in fupport of the doctrine which he endeavours to efta- blifh . Thus far this great lawyer , fays his Lordfhip ; -and , this great authority has all the force requifite to determine a question of fact . In the edition now before ...
... crown , in fupport of the doctrine which he endeavours to efta- blifh . Thus far this great lawyer , fays his Lordfhip ; -and , this great authority has all the force requifite to determine a question of fact . In the edition now before ...
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