The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 20Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1759 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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... manner mentioned by Mr. Gray ; and several writers have fuppofed , that an angle taken within five minutes . of the truth is fufficiently exact . But certainly this is no rea- fon for condemning the theolodite as now generally made , it ...
... manner mentioned by Mr. Gray ; and several writers have fuppofed , that an angle taken within five minutes . of the truth is fufficiently exact . But certainly this is no rea- fon for condemning the theolodite as now generally made , it ...
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... manner of drawing a plain map or plan of a farm or demefne . But we cannot help thinking , that though it is not to be ex- pected that every perfon who meafures a parcel of land , fhould be an architect or a painter ; yet thofe who make ...
... manner of drawing a plain map or plan of a farm or demefne . But we cannot help thinking , that though it is not to be ex- pected that every perfon who meafures a parcel of land , fhould be an architect or a painter ; yet thofe who make ...
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... manner , and upon what perfons , it feems moft probable for the spirit of God to act . Such is our Author's method of treating his fubject . In regard to the merit of his work , it is but juftice to him to ob- ferve , that he is well ...
... manner , and upon what perfons , it feems moft probable for the spirit of God to act . Such is our Author's method of treating his fubject . In regard to the merit of his work , it is but juftice to him to ob- ferve , that he is well ...
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... manner they operate upon us . . Taking for granted then what , I should think on one , who has duly weighed and confidered the evangelical and apoftolical writings , can poffibly deny , that the affiftances of God's holy fpirit are ...
... manner they operate upon us . . Taking for granted then what , I should think on one , who has duly weighed and confidered the evangelical and apoftolical writings , can poffibly deny , that the affiftances of God's holy fpirit are ...
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... manner , as may move and excite him to lay them ferioufly to heart , and to pay that regard and attention to them , they moft juftly deferve . Now God , by the internal law of nature , and the external light of revelation , has ...
... manner , as may move and excite him to lay them ferioufly to heart , and to pay that regard and attention to them , they moft juftly deferve . Now God , by the internal law of nature , and the external light of revelation , has ...
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