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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Pagina 14
... fenfible though turgid note : " This thought , fays he , is taken from the idyllium of Aufonius on the rofe : Ambigeres raperetne rofis Aurora ruborem , An daret , & flores tingere torta dies . Camoens who had a genius rich of itself ...
... fenfible though turgid note : " This thought , fays he , is taken from the idyllium of Aufonius on the rofe : Ambigeres raperetne rofis Aurora ruborem , An daret , & flores tingere torta dies . Camoens who had a genius rich of itself ...
Pagina 41
... fenfible , judicious , and worthy of the inftitution which has given birth to it . ART . VI . Conclufion of the Account of Mr. Gibbon's Hiftory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . HA AVING , in two former articles , given a ...
... fenfible , judicious , and worthy of the inftitution which has given birth to it . ART . VI . Conclufion of the Account of Mr. Gibbon's Hiftory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . HA AVING , in two former articles , given a ...
Pagina 78
... fenfible and ferious ; fitted to awaken and promote that fpirit of piety , which every humane mind would wish to prevail , and which is peculiarly requifite in the exer- cifes of religious worship . May the good ends propofed by the ...
... fenfible and ferious ; fitted to awaken and promote that fpirit of piety , which every humane mind would wish to prevail , and which is peculiarly requifite in the exer- cifes of religious worship . May the good ends propofed by the ...
Pagina 79
... fenfible , that the words cannot be applied to Jefus ,, as they fland at pre- fent , that they have propofed a tranfpofition of the words grave and death . But fuppofe we were to allow the tranfpofition , what are we to do with the ...
... fenfible , that the words cannot be applied to Jefus ,, as they fland at pre- fent , that they have propofed a tranfpofition of the words grave and death . But fuppofe we were to allow the tranfpofition , what are we to do with the ...
Pagina 126
... fenfible , pertinent , and ufeful . We observe that in the fourteenth difcourfe he appears to urge the neceffity of epifcopal ordination rather more than we fhould have expected from his candour and liberality . On the whole , we have ...
... fenfible , pertinent , and ufeful . We observe that in the fourteenth difcourfe he appears to urge the neceffity of epifcopal ordination rather more than we fhould have expected from his candour and liberality . On the whole , we have ...
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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...
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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.