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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... respect whatever . In our Author's defcription of the manners and customs of the Indians , particularly thofe called the FIVE NATIONS , are many curious particulars ; fome of which may ferve as a proper fupplement to the account ...
... respect whatever . In our Author's defcription of the manners and customs of the Indians , particularly thofe called the FIVE NATIONS , are many curious particulars ; fome of which may ferve as a proper fupplement to the account ...
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... respect to what is obferved , in the beginning of this laft quotation ! To what can it be owing that , among us , SO MANY are found deformed , or deprived of one or other of their fenfes ? To what more than the fpirit of Quackery which ...
... respect to what is obferved , in the beginning of this laft quotation ! To what can it be owing that , among us , SO MANY are found deformed , or deprived of one or other of their fenfes ? To what more than the fpirit of Quackery which ...
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... respect to the method ufed by their chicfs of inviting , not impreffing , the people to accompany them to the wars . What a ftriking con- traft does this afford , to our tyrannical practice of feizing our fellow - fubjects by brutal ...
... respect to the method ufed by their chicfs of inviting , not impreffing , the people to accompany them to the wars . What a ftriking con- traft does this afford , to our tyrannical practice of feizing our fellow - fubjects by brutal ...
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... respect whatever . In our Author's defcription of the manners and customs of the Indians , particularly thofe called the FIVE NATIONS , are many curious particulars ; fome of which may ferve as a proper fupplement to the account ...
... respect whatever . In our Author's defcription of the manners and customs of the Indians , particularly thofe called the FIVE NATIONS , are many curious particulars ; fome of which may ferve as a proper fupplement to the account ...
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... respect to what is obferved , in the beginning of this laft quotation ! To what can it be owing that , among us , SO MANY are found deformed , or deprived of one or other of their fenfes ? To what more than the fpirit of Quackery which ...
... respect to what is obferved , in the beginning of this laft quotation ! To what can it be owing that , among us , SO MANY are found deformed , or deprived of one or other of their fenfes ? To what more than the fpirit of Quackery which ...
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