The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Nide 20Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1759 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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Sivu 14
... body and mind affords no argument against it . But fetting all thefe metaphyfical refine- ments afide , he confiders man merely in the light of an animal . In which ftate of humiliation , he fays , his pretenfions to a fu- ture ftate ...
... body and mind affords no argument against it . But fetting all thefe metaphyfical refine- ments afide , he confiders man merely in the light of an animal . In which ftate of humiliation , he fays , his pretenfions to a fu- ture ftate ...
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... body to furvive ; My thinking part ftill left alive . Mean while , through all the modes of fenie , Bear me , bold Contemplation , hence . On thy firm wing , O let me foar ; And idly hope and fear no more . Bear me to th ' ever ...
... body to furvive ; My thinking part ftill left alive . Mean while , through all the modes of fenie , Bear me , bold Contemplation , hence . On thy firm wing , O let me foar ; And idly hope and fear no more . Bear me to th ' ever ...
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... body , which cannot fub- fift but by the influence of that fyftem in which it is placed . As this is undoubtedly of the utmost importance , it deserves the moft particular attention . As the Authors of the London Review are of the ...
... body , which cannot fub- fift but by the influence of that fyftem in which it is placed . As this is undoubtedly of the utmost importance , it deserves the moft particular attention . As the Authors of the London Review are of the ...
Sivu 25
... body , or his body for the use of his mind ? The fe- cond effay is a fequel to the Philofophical Reflections , and in- tended as a folution of those difficulties in relation to man , which philosophy could not determine . The following ...
... body , or his body for the use of his mind ? The fe- cond effay is a fequel to the Philofophical Reflections , and in- tended as a folution of those difficulties in relation to man , which philosophy could not determine . The following ...
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... body of fcripture biftory , chronology , and divinity ; and ferving , in a great measure , as a concordance to the Bible . 8vo . 3 Vols . 15s . Beecroft , & c . HE importance of cultivating a true knowlege of the THE fcriptures , cannot ...
... body of fcripture biftory , chronology , and divinity ; and ferving , in a great measure , as a concordance to the Bible . 8vo . 3 Vols . 15s . Beecroft , & c . HE importance of cultivating a true knowlege of the THE fcriptures , cannot ...
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Sivu 200 - Mary the utmost beauty of countenance and elegance of shape of which the human form is capable. Her hair was black, though, according to the fashion of that age, she frequently wore borrowed locks, and of different colours. Her eyes were a dark grey, her complexion was exquisitely fine, and her hands and arms remarkably delicate, both as to shape and colour. Her stature was of a height that rose to the majestic.
Sivu 155 - But of that day and hour knoweth no man ; no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Sivu 151 - Now learn a parable of the fig tree; when his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh. So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Sivu 499 - An Original may be said to be of a vegetable nature; it rises spontaneously from the vital root of Genius; it grows, it is not made...
Sivu 429 - Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by destiny, not instilled by education, but infused at our nativity. He that lives according to nature will...
Sivu 38 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Sivu 194 - He was acquainted too with the learning cultivated among divines in that age ; and excelled in that species of eloquence which is calculated to rouse and to inflame.!! His maxims, however, were often too severe, and the impetuosity of his temper excessive. Rigid and uncomplying himself, he showed no indulgence to the infirmities of others.
Sivu 408 - ... due to her, they make great addition to it. They owed all of them their advancement to her choice; they were supported by her constancy; and with all their abilities they were never able to acquire any undue ascendant over her.
Sivu 348 - ... advantageous composition, which he can make with the spiritual guides, is to bribe their indolence, by assigning stated salaries to their profession, and rendering it superfluous for them to be farther active, than merely to prevent their flock from straying in quest of new pastures. And in this manner ecclesiastical establishments, though commonly they arose at first from religious views, prove in the end advantageous to the political interests of society.
Sivu 251 - About six at night she made signs for the archbishop and her chaplains to come to her ; at which time I went in with them and sat upon my knees full of tears to see that heavy sight. Her majesty lay upon her back with one hand in the bed and the other without. The...