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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... HISTORY of the World , of Mifs Granville , of Inl . Navigations , 233 Ditto , Part II . 475 of St. Saviour's South- 397 Answer to Ditto , 163 ACOMBE'S Hiftory of Queen Chriftina , LADY's Friend , from the French of Gravines , LANGHORNE ...
... HISTORY of the World , of Mifs Granville , of Inl . Navigations , 233 Ditto , Part II . 475 of St. Saviour's South- 397 Answer to Ditto , 163 ACOMBE'S Hiftory of Queen Chriftina , LADY's Friend , from the French of Gravines , LANGHORNE ...
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... history - it must be writ by a cotemporary author , or by one who had cotemporary materials in his hands . " Bolin . Vol . V. P. 337 . REV . Jan. 1766 . E tion tion of the honour of Him , who made the Mofes and Bolingbroke : A dialogue .
... history - it must be writ by a cotemporary author , or by one who had cotemporary materials in his hands . " Bolin . Vol . V. P. 337 . REV . Jan. 1766 . E tion tion of the honour of Him , who made the Mofes and Bolingbroke : A dialogue .
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... history might answer the defigns of Eternal Wifdom , it fhould ve been proportioned to the ignorance of the Ifraelites , as little able understand one fyftem of philofophy , as another ; without giving fo much reafon to people , better ...
... history might answer the defigns of Eternal Wifdom , it fhould ve been proportioned to the ignorance of the Ifraelites , as little able understand one fyftem of philofophy , as another ; without giving fo much reafon to people , better ...
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... History of the World , from the Creation to the · prefent Time . Including all the Empires , Kingdoms and States ; their Revolutions , Forms of Government , Laws , Religions , & c . c . Together with their Chronology , Antiquities ...
... History of the World , from the Creation to the · prefent Time . Including all the Empires , Kingdoms and States ; their Revolutions , Forms of Government , Laws , Religions , & c . c . Together with their Chronology , Antiquities ...
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... History of Mifs Granville . By the Au- thor of Indiana Danby . 12mo . 2 Vols . 6s . Noble . Some part of what we faid in commendation of the Hiftory of Mifs Danby , ( fee Rev. Vol . XXXII . p . 480 ) may be juftly applied to the ftory ...
... History of Mifs Granville . By the Au- thor of Indiana Danby . 12mo . 2 Vols . 6s . Noble . Some part of what we faid in commendation of the Hiftory of Mifs Danby , ( fee Rev. Vol . XXXII . p . 480 ) may be juftly applied to the ftory ...
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