Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

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R. Griffiths., 1805
Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.

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Page 189 - I venerate the man, whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life Coincident exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
Page 327 - ... devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught ; then with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness...
Page 103 - The Baronetage of England, or the History of the English Baronets, and such Baronets of Scotland as are of English Families; with Genealogical Tables, and Engravings of their Armorial Bearings. Collected from the present Baronetages — approved Historians — Public Records — Authentic Manuscripts — well-attested Pedigrees — and Personal Information.
Page 371 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Page 327 - ... preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear, and not lumpish obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion, and our country's liberty, when it shall require firm hearts in sound bodies to stand and cover their stations, rather than to see the ruin of our protestation, and the enforcement of a slavish life.
Page 135 - Empress entered, when the skipper addressed her, by observing that he had brought her a cheese, a much better one than she had ever .tasted, for which, affecting an awkward manner, she thanked him. Being much pleased with her appearance, he took from his coat a piece of linen, and begged her acceptance of it for shifts.
Page 327 - Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home ; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or...
Page 111 - And quelled barbarian power, and overthrew The bloody altars of idolatry, And planted in its fanes triumphantly The cross of Christ. Come, listen to my lay!
Page 173 - Kings of Syria ; from the Establishment of their Reign under Seleucus Nicator, to the Determination of it under Antiochus Asiaticus With historical Memoirs of each Reign. Illustrated with twenty-four Plates of Coins, from the Cabinet of the late Matthew Duane, FK and AS, engraved by > F. Bartolozzi.
Page 192 - With the woman one loves, with the friend of one's heart, and a study of books," says his lordship to his friend Mr. Bower, " one might pass an age in this vale, and think it a day.

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