The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 68Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1783 - 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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... ment to rob the provinces , as the proconfuls , and others bearing offices there , had it in their power . Horace , therefore , in this Ode , feconds the Emperor in his efforts to correct a dangerous vice ; whilst the poet , in a ...
... ment to rob the provinces , as the proconfuls , and others bearing offices there , had it in their power . Horace , therefore , in this Ode , feconds the Emperor in his efforts to correct a dangerous vice ; whilst the poet , in a ...
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... ment , without the principal offices of the ftate being conferred on perfons poffeffed of zeal for the public welfare , and in whom he him- felf could place confidence . His intention was not to fend any troops to Hanover , ftill per ...
... ment , without the principal offices of the ftate being conferred on perfons poffeffed of zeal for the public welfare , and in whom he him- felf could place confidence . His intention was not to fend any troops to Hanover , ftill per ...
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... ment by evafion . We wrote for the Public ; and any author was welcome to our remarks . We were pleased to see them adopted , as it was a - token of their being approved : but we were more pleased to fee them enlarged on and improved ...
... ment by evafion . We wrote for the Public ; and any author was welcome to our remarks . We were pleased to see them adopted , as it was a - token of their being approved : but we were more pleased to fee them enlarged on and improved ...
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... ment , and the doctrines of Chrift , to which it makes a dire & and formal appeal . Contemplated in any other way , it is impertinent , abfurd , and contradictory . Indeed the paffage of Athenago- ras fpeaks for itself ; -if it is only ...
... ment , and the doctrines of Chrift , to which it makes a dire & and formal appeal . Contemplated in any other way , it is impertinent , abfurd , and contradictory . Indeed the paffage of Athenago- ras fpeaks for itself ; -if it is only ...
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... accord ; and the only reafon that can be given for fo univerfal a harmony is this the fact was fo obvious , there could be no mistake ; and fo com- mon , there could be no difagrees ment . HIMSELF : ART . Cookfon's Thoughts on Polygamy .
... accord ; and the only reafon that can be given for fo univerfal a harmony is this the fact was fo obvious , there could be no mistake ; and fo com- mon , there could be no difagrees ment . HIMSELF : ART . Cookfon's Thoughts on Polygamy .
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Page 205 - And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.
Page 455 - ... the mind, gratify the fancy, or move the affections, belongs to their province. They present human nature under a different aspect from that which it assumes when viewed by other sciences.
Page 204 - He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us.
Page 462 - But often, also, they render it stiff and forced : and, in general, a plain, native style, as it is more intelligible to all readers...
Page 205 - Father, who raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand, far above all principalities and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come, and put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church...
Page 202 - Me through their word ; that they all may be one ; as Thou, FATHER, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they alfo may be one in Us : that the world may believe that Thou haft fent Me.
Page 270 - Sophs ; but not before they have been formally created by one of the regentmasters, before whom they kneel, while he lays a volume of Aristotle's works on their heads, and puts on a hood, a piece of black crape, hanging from their necks, and down to their heels; which crape, it is...
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Page 84 - If I have any power or credit with you, I pray you let me have a trial of it at this time, in dealing sincerely and earnestly with the king, that sir Walter Raleigh's life may not be called in question.
Page 205 - And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and fuch as are in the fea, and all that are in them, heard I, faying, Bleffing, and honour, and glory, and power be unto him that fitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.