From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices. — 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 myself with making experiments on the fixed air [carbon dioxide] which I found ready made in the process of fermentation . When I removed from that house I was under the necessity of making the fixed… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share
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 more light get, the more thankful we ought to be, for by this means we have the greater range for satisfactory contemplation. time the bounds of light will be still farther extended; and from the infinity… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share
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 needless to describe, since practice will necessarily suggest them; though, like all other arts in which the hands and fingers… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share
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 the title of God , as distinguished from the Son; and sometimes they expressly call him, exclusively of the Son, the only true God ; a phraseology which does not at all accord with the idea… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share
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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