Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

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Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths
R. Griffiths., 1793
Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.
 

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Page 578 - of their rewards ; before which time no premium or bounty will be delivered. It is required, that the matters for which premiums are offered, be delivered in without names, or any intimation to whom they belong; that each particular thing be marked
Page 538 - but it is unqueftionably very ancient, and is ftill kept up even in great towns, though lefs in them than in the country: with us it is chiefly confined to the lower clafles of people; but in
Page 358 - in the courfe of that work, as he grew familiar with technical and fcholaftic words, he thought that' the bulk of his readers were equally learned; or at
Page 585 - That fo much depending upon the prefervation of this Third Eftate, in •fuch its conftitutional purity and ftrength, your Petitioners are reafonably jealous of whatever may appear to vitiate the one, or to impair the other. That at the prefent day the Houfe of Commons does not fully and fairly reprefent the People of England, which,
Page 359 - in general, are on the furface of life; if ever original, it was in pieces of humour. Sir Roger de Coverly, and the Tory Fox-hunter, need not to be mentioned.
Page 357 - was not* at firft, equal to their merit. They had not, like the Spectators, the art of charming by variety; and indeed how could it be expected/ The

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