Category: Biographies
Be it remembered, that on the twenty-eighth of December in the thirtieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1805, Joseph Priestley, of the said district, hath deposited in this Office the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor,...
Be it remembered, that on the twenty-eighth of December in the thirtieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1805, Joseph Priestley, of the said dist...
2. Part 2By these means, not being disgusted with these strict forms of religion as many persons of better health and spirits probably might have been (and on which account I am far from...
3. Part 3When I was at Nantwich I sent this treatise to the press; but when nine sheets were printed off, Dr. Kippis dissuaded me from proceeding, or from publishing any thing of the kin...
4. Part 4The tutors having sufficient society among themselves, we had not much acquaintance out of the academy. Sometimes, however, I made an excursion to the towns in the neighbourhood...
5. Part 5[13] JOHN HYACINTH DE MAGELLAN a descendant of the famous Navigator Magellan, was a Portuguese Jesuit, but far more attached to Philosophy than Christianity. He was much employe...
6. Part 6Besides the persons whose names appear in this list, as regular subscribers, there were other persons who, without chusing to be known as such, contributed no less to my support...
7. Part 7I esteem it a singular happiness to have lived in an age and country, in which I have been at full liberty both to investigate, and by preaching and writing to propagate, religi...
8. Part 8“As to myself, I cannot be supposed to feel much attachment to a country in which I have neither found protection, nor redress. But I am too old, and my habits too fixed, to rem...
9. Part 9By these and others means, the same party spirit which was the cause of the riots in Birmingham, has been increasing ever since, especially in that neighbourhood. A remarkable i...
10. Part 10The writer, understanding the language of the country but very imperfectly, must necessarily have been liable to many mistakes; nor is it to be wondered at that a man who detail...
11. Part 11In the spring of 1797 he again spent two or three months in Philadelphia, and delivered a second set of discourses, but partly from the novelty of the thing being done away, par...
12. Part 12In the last fortnight in January he was troubled with alarming fits of indigestion; his legs swelled nearly to his knees, and his weakness increased very much. I wrote for him,...
13. Part 13CHAP. _3d. Of the nature of the nitro-aereal and fiery spirit._ Fire he conceives to consist of these nitro-aereal particles set in violent motion by means of sulphureous bodies...
14. Part 14The attention of Dr. Priestley, however to these subjects was not originally excited by the works of his predecessors, but by the _accident_ of his proximity to a brew-house at...
15. Part 15Certainly, it has not yet been sufficiently explained on the new theory, what becomes of the Oxygen from the decomposed water in the solution of metals in acids; nor why inflamm...
16. Part 16The minor treatises of Dr. Priestley on electricity, perspective and natural philosophy, have this discrimination of character, that they are more calculated to allure young peo...
17. Part 17[66] This is probably one of the innumerable instances of the carelessness of French authors in quoting English names. La Mettrie most likely meant to ascribe this to Mr. Sharp...
18. Part 18The great object of terror to the Divines in this question about Necessity, was the consequence resulting, that God is the author of Sin. Many and subtile were the distinctions...