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Joseph Priestley

  

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Joseph Priestley : Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit

H. J. Jackson discusses annotations by John Horne Tooke in his copy of Joseph Priestley, Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit (1777; gift from the author), in which Priestley addressed as "'you'" and mocking marginal notes added as interjections to arguments.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Horne Tooke      Print: Book

  

Joseph Priestley : On the origin of government

'In October 1792... the Larpents were reading Joseph Priestley on "The origin of government" "rather to lead conversation and observation than as a followed reading".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Larpent      Print: Book

  

Joseph Priestley : On the origin of government

'In October 1792... the Larpents were reading Joseph Priestley on The Origin of government 'rather to lead conversation and observation than as a followed reading.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Larpent      Print: Book

  

Joseph Priestley : [unknown]

'Of Dr. Priestley's theological works, he remarked, that they tended to unsettle every thing, and yet settled nothing.' [account by Dr Maxwell, and Irish London priest friend of Johnson]

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

  

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