Monthly Review; Or New Literary JournalRalph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths R. Griffiths., 1795 Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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... firft hints of his prefent work from Pythagoras , or from fome modern example of this kind , -fuch as Dr. Gregory's excellent lectures on the office and duties of a phyfician ; -or whether the plan was fuggefted by the author's own good ...
... firft hints of his prefent work from Pythagoras , or from fome modern example of this kind , -fuch as Dr. Gregory's excellent lectures on the office and duties of a phyfician ; -or whether the plan was fuggefted by the author's own good ...
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... firft edition , we could not refrain from treating with fome degree of levity the author's high claims of credence to wild traditions , and fabulous hiftorians , in fpeaking of British antiquities : but it would be unjust not to allow ...
... firft edition , we could not refrain from treating with fome degree of levity the author's high claims of credence to wild traditions , and fabulous hiftorians , in fpeaking of British antiquities : but it would be unjust not to allow ...
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... firft that fat on it . Molly , faid he , you have had the maidenhead of this bench , and you must pay me three kiffes for it . The demand was fatisfied . Some time after , his wife died , whereon he went to London ; leaving his fifter ...
... firft that fat on it . Molly , faid he , you have had the maidenhead of this bench , and you must pay me three kiffes for it . The demand was fatisfied . Some time after , his wife died , whereon he went to London ; leaving his fifter ...
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... firft edit . ) has been altered for the worfe . There was a want of relation , before , be- tween the harmony of F natural and E flat : but now there are two- fifths between the under treble and the bass : an overfight of which Tyros ...
... firft edit . ) has been altered for the worfe . There was a want of relation , before , be- tween the harmony of F natural and E flat : but now there are two- fifths between the under treble and the bass : an overfight of which Tyros ...
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... firft expected , from a comparison of the Bafil edition with a MS . copy pre- ferved in the library of St. Mark at Venice . readings which feemed to be the most important and useful he fubjoined in the margin , with fuitable references ...
... firft expected , from a comparison of the Bafil edition with a MS . copy pre- ferved in the library of St. Mark at Venice . readings which feemed to be the most important and useful he fubjoined in the margin , with fuitable references ...
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