Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child will upon the slightest temptation tell an untruth as readily as the truth. That is, as soon as he can suspect that it will be to… — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes. — Joseph Priestley Copy Share
Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and the worship… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share
It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has done to… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share
