The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 66Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1782 - Books 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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... a con- tinuation of the Author's fyftem , to which he was led very early in life , ' as he now informs us , by his having obferved , 6 that great effects are produced in nature by the action 6 that Jones's Phyfiological Difquifitions .
... a con- tinuation of the Author's fyftem , to which he was led very early in life , ' as he now informs us , by his having obferved , 6 that great effects are produced in nature by the action 6 that Jones's Phyfiological Difquifitions .
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Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths. that great effects are produced in nature by the action of the ele- ments on each other ; and that all philosophy might be reduced to one fimple and univerfal law , -the natural agency of the elements ...
Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths. that great effects are produced in nature by the action of the ele- ments on each other ; and that all philosophy might be reduced to one fimple and univerfal law , -the natural agency of the elements ...
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... effect of the more perfect ones . A mufical Reader may , however , be curi- ous to try the effect of this equality , and to compare it with the common methods . And for thorough - bafs in a concert , a harpfichord might anfwer better ...
... effect of the more perfect ones . A mufical Reader may , however , be curi- ous to try the effect of this equality , and to compare it with the common methods . And for thorough - bafs in a concert , a harpfichord might anfwer better ...
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... effect must be referred rather to the imagination than the fenfes . ' In this difcourfe , the Author gives a well ... effects produced by the mere change of direction , which a current of air fuffers in paffing through a narrow paffage ...
... effect must be referred rather to the imagination than the fenfes . ' In this difcourfe , the Author gives a well ... effects produced by the mere change of direction , which a current of air fuffers in paffing through a narrow paffage ...
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... effects are to be afcribed , to climate , the fi tuation and nature of a country , population , the nature of food , and way of life . Some light , however , may undoubtedly be caft upon these fubjects by an attentive obfervation of ...
... effects are to be afcribed , to climate , the fi tuation and nature of a country , population , the nature of food , and way of life . Some light , however , may undoubtedly be caft upon these fubjects by an attentive obfervation of ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.