Joseph Priestley, Volume 39J.M. Dent & Company, 1906 - 228 pages |
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... means was as happy towards the close of life , when reduced to poverty and dependent upon others , as in his best days . These facts are not without interest as serving to account for much that we shall have occasion to note in the ...
... means was as happy towards the close of life , when reduced to poverty and dependent upon others , as in his best days . These facts are not without interest as serving to account for much that we shall have occasion to note in the ...
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... means made himself a considerable proficient in that language . " " " At the same time I learned Chaldee and Syriac , and just began to read Arabic . " " He also As his knowledge increased , and the powers of his intellect strengthened ...
... means made himself a considerable proficient in that language . " " " At the same time I learned Chaldee and Syriac , and just began to read Arabic . " " He also As his knowledge increased , and the powers of his intellect strengthened ...
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... means of learning to yourselves , you may think to keep us in ignorance and so less capable to give you disturbance . But though ignominiously and unjustly excluded from the seats of learning , and driven to the expedient of providing ...
... means of learning to yourselves , you may think to keep us in ignorance and so less capable to give you disturbance . But though ignominiously and unjustly excluded from the seats of learning , and driven to the expedient of providing ...
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... Means of Virtue ; 1st vol . of the Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion . With one of his classmates he engaged to rise early and so " dispatched many articles of business every day . One of them , which continued all the time we ...
... Means of Virtue ; 1st vol . of the Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion . With one of his classmates he engaged to rise early and so " dispatched many articles of business every day . One of them , which continued all the time we ...
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... means of procuring the material for his investigations , and he was always ready to part with it , to the extent of his opportunity , in any cause in which his sympathies were enlisted . His circumstances were now so straitened that ...
... means of procuring the material for his investigations , and he was always ready to part with it , to the extent of his opportunity , in any cause in which his sympathies were enlisted . His circumstances were now so straitened that ...
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Page 47 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 165 - For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Page 13 - All mankind by their fall, lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries of this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell for ever.
Page 178 - I had that expectation when I first put a sprig of mint into a glass jar standing inverted in a vessel of water: but when it had continued growing there for some months, I found that the air would neither extinguish a candle, nor was it at all inconvenient to a mouse, which I put into it.
Page 194 - ... and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprised me more than I can well express was that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame, very much like that enlarged flame with which a candle burns in nitrous air exposed to iron or liver of sulphur...
Page 194 - But having afterwards procured a lens of twelve inches diameter and twenty inches focal distance, I proceeded with great alacrity to examine by the help of it what kind of air a great variety of substances, natural and factitious, would yield...
Page 91 - I have long been of opinion, that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability of the British empire lie in America; and though, like other foundations, : they are low and little seen, they are, nevertheless, broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure human wisdom ever yet erected.
Page 180 - This observation led me to conclude, that plants, instead of affecting the air in the same manner with animal respiration, reverse the effects of breathing, and tend to keep the atmosphere sweet and wholesome, when it is become noxious, in consequence of animals either living and breathing, or dying and putrefying in it.
Page 134 - I cannot but feel better pleased that Priestley is the sufferer for the doctrines he and his party have instilled, and that the people see them in their true light. Yet I cannot approve their having employed such atrocious means of showing their discontent.
Page 198 - The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air, but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and easy for some time afterwards. Who can tell but that, in time, this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury ? Hitherto, only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it.