The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 55Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1777 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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... Scythian emigrant , we behold with pain the miferable effects of uncultivated force and ferocious ignorance . Thefe effects appear frequently in the Annals before us , and the Military Hiftory of Moray points out to us not only the ...
... Scythian emigrant , we behold with pain the miferable effects of uncultivated force and ferocious ignorance . Thefe effects appear frequently in the Annals before us , and the Military Hiftory of Moray points out to us not only the ...
Pagina 55
... Scythians . Magna et ea commendatio , qued in ore cam ha- bentes famem fitimque non fentiunt ; and mentioning another herb of like virtue in the fupport of horfes , he adds , Traduntque bis duabus herbis Scythes etiam in duodenos dies ...
... Scythians . Magna et ea commendatio , qued in ore cam ha- bentes famem fitimque non fentiunt ; and mentioning another herb of like virtue in the fupport of horfes , he adds , Traduntque bis duabus herbis Scythes etiam in duodenos dies ...
Pagina 364
... Scythia ; and feveral learned moderns , taking advantage of that obfcurity in which its history is involved , have ... Scythia . There was alfo a Scythia in Afia Minor , upon the Thermodon above Galatia , where the Amazons were fuppofed ...
... Scythia ; and feveral learned moderns , taking advantage of that obfcurity in which its history is involved , have ... Scythia . There was alfo a Scythia in Afia Minor , upon the Thermodon above Galatia , where the Amazons were fuppofed ...
Pagina 365
... Scythia Limyrica . ' After fome obfervations on the ideas which the ancient Greeks and Romans entertained with regard to the Scythic nations , our Author remarks , that thefe nations were widely extended , and to be met with on very ...
... Scythia Limyrica . ' After fome obfervations on the ideas which the ancient Greeks and Romans entertained with regard to the Scythic nations , our Author remarks , that thefe nations were widely extended , and to be met with on very ...
Pagina 366
... Scythians were the Cuthians , and came from Babylonia . The works , in which they were engaged ; and the perfon from whom they were denominated ; in fhort , the whole of their hiftory paft all controversy prove it . They were the fame ...
... Scythians were the Cuthians , and came from Babylonia . The works , in which they were engaged ; and the perfon from whom they were denominated ; in fhort , the whole of their hiftory paft all controversy prove it . They were the fame ...
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Pagina 383 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away ; for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone : the flowers appear on the earth ; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Pagina 358 - A SEASONABLE ARGUMENT TO PERSUADE ALL THE GRAND JURIES IN ENGLAND TO PETITION FOR A NEW PARLIAMENT, OR A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL LABOURERS IN THE GREAT DESIGN OF POPERY AND ARBITRARY POWER...
Pagina 45 - To this inquiry, an obvious but satisfactory answer may be returned ; that it was owing to the convincing evidence of the doctrine itself, and to the ruling providence of its great Author.
Pagina 49 - ... the laws of nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church. But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study, appeared unconscious of any alterations in the moral or physical government of the world.
Pagina 47 - The former, selected from the more opulent and distinguished ranks of society, were strictly attached to the literal sense of the Mosaic law, and they piously rejected the immortality of the soul as an opinion that received no countenance from the divine book which they revered as the only rule of their faith. To the authority of scripture the Pharisees added that of tradition, and they accepted, under the name of traditions, several speculative tenets from the philosophy or religion of the eastern...
Pagina 379 - The truth of it is, a man is not qualified for a Butt, who has not a good deal of wit and vivacity, even in the ridiculous side of his character. A stupid Butt is only fit for the conversation of ordinary people : men of wit require one that will give them play, and bestir himself in the absurd part of his behaviour. A Butt with these accomplishments frequently gets the laugh...
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Pagina 22 - Bounties upon the exportation of any homemade commodity are liable, first to that general objection which may be made to all the different expedients of the mercantile system; the objection of forcing some part of the industry of the country into a channel less advantageous than that in which it would run of its own accord...
Pagina 350 - In every ftage of thefe oppreffions we have petitioned for redrefs in the moft humble terms; our repeated petitions have been anfwered only by repeated injury.