It is known to all persons who are conversant in experimental philosophy, that there are many little attentions and precautions necessary to be observed in the conducting of experiments, which cannot well be described in words, but which it is… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
“But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann. [G. W. Richmann died… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
It is known to all persons who are conversant in experimental philosophy, that there are many little attentions and precautions necessary to be observed… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to which it… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they give him… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John , and making of it a second person… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works,… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air; but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes. — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
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