The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 80Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1789 - 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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... thought tedious , the reader will be amply repaid when he arrives at the fifth Part , in which upward of thirty Lectures are spent in pointing out the moft important objects of attention in hif- tory . Here the author treats diftinctly ...
... thought tedious , the reader will be amply repaid when he arrives at the fifth Part , in which upward of thirty Lectures are spent in pointing out the moft important objects of attention in hif- tory . Here the author treats diftinctly ...
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... thought improper ; yet we cannot close this article . without remarking that , in fome cafes , the English reader will meet with difficulties that may perplex him . We will mention two or three inftances . In the courfe of the work we ...
... thought improper ; yet we cannot close this article . without remarking that , in fome cafes , the English reader will meet with difficulties that may perplex him . We will mention two or three inftances . In the courfe of the work we ...
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... thought more equitable : that every infcription be allowed to be genuine , till its authenticity be rendered doubtful by pro- bable arguments . We will conclude this head with two fhort obfervations . In Selden's copy , 1. 26. was ...
... thought more equitable : that every infcription be allowed to be genuine , till its authenticity be rendered doubtful by pro- bable arguments . We will conclude this head with two fhort obfervations . In Selden's copy , 1. 26. was ...
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... thought it a place beneath his care , or whether he had devoted a feparate infcription to the chronology of Paros ? IV . It has been frequently observed , that the earlier periods of the Grecian history are involved in darkness and ...
... thought it a place beneath his care , or whether he had devoted a feparate infcription to the chronology of Paros ? IV . It has been frequently observed , that the earlier periods of the Grecian history are involved in darkness and ...
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... thought the Alexiades fpurious , or not worthy of any regard ? Mr. R. calculates , that the venders of the Marble received 200 pieces . But here again we are left in the dark , unless . we knew the precife value of these pieces ...
... thought the Alexiades fpurious , or not worthy of any regard ? Mr. R. calculates , that the venders of the Marble received 200 pieces . But here again we are left in the dark , unless . we knew the precife value of these pieces ...
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