The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volumen58Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1778 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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... must be owned there is fomething in the conftitution of this quadrant very difagreeable , and not eafily to be accounted for . Sometimes , for many months together , the longitudes de- duced from obfervations made , about the fame time ...
... must be owned there is fomething in the conftitution of this quadrant very difagreeable , and not eafily to be accounted for . Sometimes , for many months together , the longitudes de- duced from obfervations made , about the fame time ...
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... must be fometime before he can discover the prrfon whom he vifits . Some of the Titulos de Caftilla , an order of nobility , of whom there may be about ten or twelve families , from one to three thoufand pounds a year , that conftantly ...
... must be fometime before he can discover the prrfon whom he vifits . Some of the Titulos de Caftilla , an order of nobility , of whom there may be about ten or twelve families , from one to three thoufand pounds a year , that conftantly ...
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... must have confiderable power in this , aš well as every other country , yet it has been much reduced of late years . The edict to prevent the admiffion of noviciates into the different convents , without fpecial permiffion , has , and ...
... must have confiderable power in this , aš well as every other country , yet it has been much reduced of late years . The edict to prevent the admiffion of noviciates into the different convents , without fpecial permiffion , has , and ...
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... must take notice to you of a prejudice both in this country and Spain , which is fomewhat fingular : having had the finest moon- light evenings imaginable , I have conftantly noticed the women hold their fans , in fuch a manner , as to ...
... must take notice to you of a prejudice both in this country and Spain , which is fomewhat fingular : having had the finest moon- light evenings imaginable , I have conftantly noticed the women hold their fans , in fuch a manner , as to ...
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... must make allowances for the ftyle of our mili- tary Traveller , who fometimes falls into inaccuracies and im- proprieties of expreffion , fuch as We carried a mountainous country along with us - we entered upon a heath and carried it ...
... must make allowances for the ftyle of our mili- tary Traveller , who fometimes falls into inaccuracies and im- proprieties of expreffion , fuch as We carried a mountainous country along with us - we entered upon a heath and carried it ...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volumen68 Ralph Griffiths,G. E. Griffiths Vista completa - 1783 |
The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volumen60 Ralph Griffiths,G. E. Griffiths Vista completa - 1779 |
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Página 447 - Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to FORNICATION, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Página 293 - ... it was ordered to be burnt by the hands of the common hangman.
Página 461 - Lama seems to die, either of old age or infirmity, his soul, in fact, only quits a crazy habitation, to look for another, younger or better : and it is...
Página 115 - THE constitution of England had now assumed a new aspect. The maxim of hereditary, indefeasible right was at length renounced by a free parliament. The power of the crown was acknowledged to flow from no other fountain than that of a contract with the people.
Página 207 - The ingenious and the fentimental found a hilling intereft and a bewitching occupation in the affiduities, the anxieties, and the tendernefs of intrigue. The coarfe and intemperate, indulging their indolence and appetite, fought the haunts, and threw themfeives into the arms of prollituted beauty.
Página 378 - Oftober, kill their poultry, and keep them in tubs packed up with a layer of fnow between them, as one would put fait to pickle pork or beef, and then take them out for ufe as occafion requires : by this means they fave the nourifhment of the animal feveral months...
Página 460 - India, uncouth in their appearance; and fierce in their aflault, wrapped up in furs, and armed with bows and arrows and other weapons peculiar to them. The place -was carried by our troops, -and a great many things taken in the fpoil, fuch as arms, clothing, and ntenlils of various forts.
Página 192 - I find myself more calmly pleased in my present way of living, and more contented, than I ever was in the bloom and pomp of my youth. I am no longer dubious what point to pursue. There is but one proper for the decline of life ; and indeed the only one worth the anxiety of a rational creature at any age : but how do the fire of youth, and...
Página 358 - I wiih to diiruade him from; and therefore I bring him under the courfe of difcipline above defcribed with the greateft hope of fuccefs. Other influences, indeed, to which he may be expofed, and that I am not aware of, may counteract my views, and thereby my object may be fruftrated ; but...
Página 110 - At first within the yard confin'd, He flies and hides from all mankind; Now bolder grown, with fix'd amaze, And distant awe, presumes to gaze : Munches the linen on the lines, And on a hood or apron dines : He...