The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 78Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1788 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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... established fame for learning , and was ambitious of attaining it , but which cannot be pleaded in excufe of Mr. W. he frequently introduces fcraps of Latin ; often even tranflating his own English . - Take the following examples ...
... established fame for learning , and was ambitious of attaining it , but which cannot be pleaded in excufe of Mr. W. he frequently introduces fcraps of Latin ; often even tranflating his own English . - Take the following examples ...
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... establish Polytheifm , under the pretext of explaining a myftery . The Unity of God is the foundation of the Gospel ; and every thing that may in any way affect this truth is dangerous . As Jefus Christ and his Apoftles have laboured ...
... establish Polytheifm , under the pretext of explaining a myftery . The Unity of God is the foundation of the Gospel ; and every thing that may in any way affect this truth is dangerous . As Jefus Christ and his Apoftles have laboured ...
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... established as an axiom ; experience contradicts it . What is the advantage of a strong poft , if it is impoffible to defend it ? We are led to fuppofe that the Author means to enforce this idea only in part , though he expreffes ...
... established as an axiom ; experience contradicts it . What is the advantage of a strong poft , if it is impoffible to defend it ? We are led to fuppofe that the Author means to enforce this idea only in part , though he expreffes ...
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... establishing focieties for encouraging agriculture , by means of premiums , and other excitements , in every county , or in fmaller districts , if it could be brought about ; and that great bene- fits would refult from the introducing ...
... establishing focieties for encouraging agriculture , by means of premiums , and other excitements , in every county , or in fmaller districts , if it could be brought about ; and that great bene- fits would refult from the introducing ...
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... establish our public credit : remarking , alfo , the great num- bers of English refugees in France and other parts , moft of whom he afferts to be driven away by the power of taxes , and violence of measures ' ( extravagance and fraud ...
... establish our public credit : remarking , alfo , the great num- bers of English refugees in France and other parts , moft of whom he afferts to be driven away by the power of taxes , and violence of measures ' ( extravagance and fraud ...
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Página 376 - Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions, which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race.
Página 460 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth.
Página 458 - History, by apprising them of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men...
Página 458 - But of all the views of this law none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.
Página 481 - And the .king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also. But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.
Página 458 - ... public education. The influence over government must be shared among all the people. If every individual which composes their mass participates of the ultimate authority, the government will be safe ; because the corrupting the whole mass will exceed any private resources of wealth ; and public ones cannot be provided but by levies on the people.
Página 376 - And is this difference of no importance? Is it not the foundation of a greater or less share of beauty in the two races? Are not the fine mixtures of red and white...
Página 324 - I can now look back upon three-score and four years, in which little has been done, and little has been enjoyed ; a life diversified by misery, spent part in the sluggishness of penury, and part under the violence of pain, in gloomy discontent or importunate distress. But perhaps I am better than I should have been if I had been less afflicted. With this I will try to be content.
Página 377 - Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me that in memory they are equal to the whites ; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid ; and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous.
Página 361 - But the fact is, he cannot get it at that lower rate. At a higher rate, however, he could get it: and at that rate, though higher, it would be worth his while to get it: so he judges, who has nothing to hinder him from judging right; who has every motive and every means for forming a right judgment; who has every motive and every means for informing himself of the circumstances, upon which rectitude of judgment, in the case in question, depends.