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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... writers . But , we have no hiftory of it by any Chriftian writer , who lived at that time . Whence this has come to pafs , cannot be certainly faid . We may regret it , but we cannot help it , and should acquiefce , and improve what we ...
... writers . But , we have no hiftory of it by any Chriftian writer , who lived at that time . Whence this has come to pafs , cannot be certainly faid . We may regret it , but we cannot help it , and should acquiefce , and improve what we ...
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... writers , remarkable for their diligence , learning and judgment . As to Dionyfius the Areopagite , it has been of- ten faid , that he went into Egypt , when a young man , for the fake of improvement in knowlege , and that being at ...
... writers , remarkable for their diligence , learning and judgment . As to Dionyfius the Areopagite , it has been of- ten faid , that he went into Egypt , when a young man , for the fake of improvement in knowlege , and that being at ...
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... Writers , who have mentioned the Chriftians . The Council in the Moon . 4to . 1 s . Cambridge printed . Sold in London by Wilson and Fell . THE Thus , live of this in HE Author of this humourous and fpirited Pamphlet chufes , like ...
... Writers , who have mentioned the Chriftians . The Council in the Moon . 4to . 1 s . Cambridge printed . Sold in London by Wilson and Fell . THE Thus , live of this in HE Author of this humourous and fpirited Pamphlet chufes , like ...
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... writer , he must have been an Impoftor . How long fhall we halt between two opinions ! If he was really fent with a meffage from heaven , it must have been of the highest con- fequence to mankind : -Let us then receive him . But if ...
... writer , he must have been an Impoftor . How long fhall we halt between two opinions ! If he was really fent with a meffage from heaven , it must have been of the highest con- fequence to mankind : -Let us then receive him . But if ...
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... writers , though dead , yet live , in their works ; ( Mofes , in his Pentateuch , and Bolingbroke , in his , will live for ever , ) there will be no difficulty in bringing these re- markable perfonages together , and giving them a fair ...
... writers , though dead , yet live , in their works ; ( Mofes , in his Pentateuch , and Bolingbroke , in his , will live for ever , ) there will be no difficulty in bringing these re- markable perfonages together , and giving them a fair ...
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