Category: Biographies

Joseph Priestley

Priestley marries--Is ordained--His Essay on Education--Lectures on History and General Policy--His Chart of Biography--Becomes a Doctor of Laws of the University of Edinburgh--His visits to London--Makes the acquaintance of Dr Price, Canton and Benjamin Franklin--Writes the _...

Chapters

20. CHAPTER XI

Priestley as a man of science--His characteristics as a philosopher--_Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air_--His discovery of the influence of vegetation on vi...

18. CHAPTER IX

The picture which Priestley drew of his life in Birmingham at this period, as given in the autobiographical sketch published after his death, is almost dramatic in its pathos wh...

19. CHAPTER X

Priestley's position in London for some time after his arrival there was very insecure, and so apprehensive were his friends of further outrage that it was thought necessary to...

13. CHAPTER IV

Priestley marries--Is ordained--His Essay on Education--Lectures on History and General Policy--His Chart of Biography--Becomes a Doctor of Laws of the University of Edinburgh--...

17. CHAPTER VIII

In 1784 Priestley brought out a revised edition of the work on which his fame as a man of science mainly rests, under the title of "_Experiments and Observations on Different Ki...

14. CHAPTER V

Goes to Leeds as minister of the Mill Hill Chapel--Resumes his studies in Speculative Theology--_The Theological Repository_--Becomes a Unitarian--Priestley as a controversialis...

10. CHAPTER I

"If," says Mr Frederic Harrison, "we choose one man as a type of the intellectual energy of the eighteenth century we could hardly find a better than Joseph Priestley, though hi...

16. CHAPTER VII

On leaving Calne, Priestley repaired to London. His position was somewhat precarious, as he had practically nothing but his allowance from Lord Shelburne to support him. This, a...

12. CHAPTER III

Priestley left Needham Market in 1758. He had been there three years, and he was in his twenty-fifth year when he entered upon his work at Nantwich. Of this place he had always...

11. CHAPTER II

Accordingly, in 1752, he was sent to Daventry, then under the charge of Mr Ashworth. He was now nineteen. Although of a weakly constitution, his health was sufficiently re-estab...

15. CHAPTER VI

Priestley continued at Leeds for about six years. Although very happy there he was tempted to leave Mill Hill Chapel to enter the service of Lord Shelburne. How he was regarded...

9. Chapter XI 167

Priestley as a man of science--His characteristics as a philosopher--_Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air_--His discovery of the influence of vegetation on vi...

4. Chapter V 66

Goes to Leeds as minister of the Mill Hill Chapel--Resumes his studies in Speculative Theology--_The Theological Repository_--Becomes a Unitarian--Priestley as a controversialis...

3. Chapter IV 45

Priestley marries--Is ordained--His Essay on Education--Lectures on History and General Policy--His Chart of Biography--Becomes a Doctor of Laws of the University of Edinburgh--...

5. Chapter VI 82

1. Chapter II 17

6. Chapter VII 89

2. Chapter III 30

7. Chapter VIII 103

8. Chapter X 145