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 3
... given a perfectly fatisfactory anfwer to Mr. Garrick's queftion ; with respect at least to the objection which we have made above , and which we fuppofe to have been implied in it * . For though his anfwer is juft , fo far as it goes it ...
... given a perfectly fatisfactory anfwer to Mr. Garrick's queftion ; with respect at least to the objection which we have made above , and which we fuppofe to have been implied in it * . For though his anfwer is juft , fo far as it goes it ...
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... given a differtation upon it , and compared this part of his Author's work with fi- milar paffages in other poets . In the tenth and laft Lufiad , Gama and his heroes hear the nymphs in the palace of Thetis fing the triumphs of their ...
... given a differtation upon it , and compared this part of his Author's work with fi- milar paffages in other poets . In the tenth and laft Lufiad , Gama and his heroes hear the nymphs in the palace of Thetis fing the triumphs of their ...
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... given of its approach . And yet to have done this in a way that would have led the Jews to look with irreverence on a fyllem , under which not only themselves , but their pofterity were to live , would have been little agreeable to our ...
... given of its approach . And yet to have done this in a way that would have led the Jews to look with irreverence on a fyllem , under which not only themselves , but their pofterity were to live , would have been little agreeable to our ...
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... given , that antitype might be as well to the apprehenfions of the Jews , as to thofe of the prophet himself . Thus the angel having revealed to Daniel , in the clearest and plainest manner , what was foon to happen in the near event ...
... given , that antitype might be as well to the apprehenfions of the Jews , as to thofe of the prophet himself . Thus the angel having revealed to Daniel , in the clearest and plainest manner , what was foon to happen in the near event ...
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... given thus to develope the fecrets of futurity , and bring forward its hidden myfteries into day , were infting with fuperna tural communications from the divine spirit , and spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost , ' The prophecy ...
... given thus to develope the fecrets of futurity , and bring forward its hidden myfteries into day , were infting with fuperna tural communications from the divine spirit , and spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost , ' The prophecy ...
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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...
Pagina 416 - Town into the Southern Parts of Africa; undertaken for the Discovery of new Plants, towards the Improvement of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. By Mr. Francis Masson, one of his Majesty's Gardeners.
Pagina 461 - ... lavas, and their different situations, with respect to elevation or depression ; to their being exposed to winds, rains, and to other circumstances ; just as the time in which the heaps of iron slag (which resembles lava) are covered with verdure, is different at different furnaces, according...
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.