The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volum 66Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1782 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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Pàgina 4
... laft . There are as happy paffages in it for delicacy of wit and brilliancy of style as ever was read ; but the number of horrors with which it abounds makes it fhocking to men of de- cency , and difgufting to all readers of tafte . As ...
... laft . There are as happy paffages in it for delicacy of wit and brilliancy of style as ever was read ; but the number of horrors with which it abounds makes it fhocking to men of de- cency , and difgufting to all readers of tafte . As ...
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... laft . ' On this occafion , the Author prefents his Readers with the fubftance of fome manu- fcript papers of the late Mr. Davis , who had attempted to re- duce the whole fyftem of keyed inftruments to an equal tempera- ment . It ...
... laft . ' On this occafion , the Author prefents his Readers with the fubftance of fome manu- fcript papers of the late Mr. Davis , who had attempted to re- duce the whole fyftem of keyed inftruments to an equal tempera- ment . It ...
Pàgina 13
... through a narrow paffage , or over the edge of a body . In this laft cafe , its inflexions are fuch as are common to any elaftic fluid , moving in in fimilar circumftances . We doubt not but that , Jones's Phyfiological Difquifitions . 13.
... through a narrow paffage , or over the edge of a body . In this laft cafe , its inflexions are fuch as are common to any elaftic fluid , moving in in fimilar circumftances . We doubt not but that , Jones's Phyfiological Difquifitions . 13.
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... laft . The fecond letter before us is in reply to Dr. Newcome . Dr. Priestley begins with expreffing the pleafure it gives him to find his Lordship enter fo fully into the difcuffion of the subject , and his hope that fome new light may ...
... laft . The fecond letter before us is in reply to Dr. Newcome . Dr. Priestley begins with expreffing the pleafure it gives him to find his Lordship enter fo fully into the difcuffion of the subject , and his hope that fome new light may ...
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... laft fection . " Croffing the lake in a ) fhip to Gadara , and back 12. " . to Capernaum 10. " To Nazareth II . · Granted . 20. " Granted . Granted in part . " Teaching and preaching 33. " in the cities of This journey I confine to the ...
... laft fection . " Croffing the lake in a ) fhip to Gadara , and back 12. " . to Capernaum 10. " To Nazareth II . · Granted . 20. " Granted . Granted in part . " Teaching and preaching 33. " in the cities of This journey I confine to the ...
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Pàgina 102 - ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hast given unto us thy servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of the divine Majesty to worship the Unity...
Pàgina 104 - LORD GOD, LAMB of GOD, SON of the FATHER, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of GOD the FATHER, have mercy upon us.
Pàgina 117 - Malloch to English Mallet, without any imaginable reason of preference which the eye or ear can discover. What other proofs he gave of disrespect to his native country, I know not ; but it was remarked of him, that he was the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend.
Pàgina 118 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen; to leave intervals where the eye will be pleased, and to thicken the plantation where there is something to be hidden, demands any great powers of mind...
Pàgina 370 - Thus the pleasure of seeing them come out to fight or to work, alternately, may be obtained as often as curiosity excites, or time permits; and it will certainly be found, that the one order never attempts to fight, nor the other to work, let the emergency be ever so great.
Pàgina 403 - I lean over the handle, various are the thoughts which crowd into my mind. I am now doing for him, I say, what my father formerly did for me, may God enable him to live that he may perform the same operations for the same purposes when I am worn out and old!
Pàgina 556 - NOW it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Pàgina 366 - During eleven years of my refidenre in Bengal, the outlet or head of the Jellinghy River was gradually removed three quarters of a mile farther down: and by two furveys of a part of the adjacent bank of the Ganges, taken about the...
Pàgina 460 - But the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the causes of destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and, as soon as time or accident had removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight.
Pàgina 115 - In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.