An Essay on the First Principles of Government
Author : Joseph Priestley
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Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 1771
Category : Church and state
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Author : Joseph Priestley
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Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 1771
Category : Church and state
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Author : Joseph Priestley
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Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 1771
Category : Political Science
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Author : Joseph Priestley
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Page : 326 pages
File Size : 12,94 MB
Release : 1771
Category : Church and state
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Author : Joseph Priestley
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 2013
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ISBN : 9781107300187
Author : Robert E. Schofield
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780271025100
Joseph Priestley (1733&–1804) is one of the major figures of the English Enlightenment. A contemporary and friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, he exceeded even these polymaths in the breadth of his curiosity and learning. Yet no one has attempted an all-inclusive biography of Priestley, probably because he was simply too many persons for anyone easily to comprehend in a single study. Robert Schofield has devoted a lifetime of scholarship to this task. The result is a magisterial book, covering the life and works of Priestley during the critical first forty years of his life. Although Priestley is best known as a chemist, this book is considerably more than a study in the history of science. As any good biographer must, Schofield has thoroughly studied the many activities in which Priestley was engaged. Among them are theology, electricity, chemistry, politics, English grammar, rhetoric, and educational philosophy. Schofield situates Priestley, the provincial dissenter, within the social, political, and intellectual contexts of his day and examines all the works Priestley wrote and published during this period. Schofield singles out the first forty years of Priestley's life because these were the years of preparation and trial during which Priestley qualified for the achievements that were to make him famous. The discovery of oxygen, the defenses of Unitarianism, and the political liberalism that characterize the mature Priestley&—all are foreshadowed in the young Priestley. A brief epilogue looks ahead to the next thirty years when Priestley was forced out of England and settled in Pennsylvania, the subject of Schofield's next book. But this volume stands alone as the definitive study of the making of Joseph Priestley.
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File Size : 33,21 MB
Release : 1835
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Author : Joseph Priestley
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 2014-03
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ISBN : 9781497980587
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1748 Edition.
Author : Robert E. Schofield
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0271075570
In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley Robert Schofield completes his two-volume biography of one of the great figures of the English Enlightenment. The first volume, published in 1997, covered the first forty years of Joseph Priestley’s life in England. In this second volume, Schofield surveys the mature years of Priestley, including the achievements that were to make him famous—the discovery of oxygen, the defenses of Unitarianism, and the political liberalism that characterized his later life. He also recounts Priestley’s flight to Pennsylvania in 1794 and the final years of his life spent along the Susquehanna in Northumberland. Together, the two volumes will stand as the standard biography of Priestley for years to come. Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), a contemporary and friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, exceeded even these polymaths in the breadth of his curiosity and learning. Yet Priestley is often portrayed in negative terms, as a restless intellect, incapable of confining himself to any single task, without force or originality, and marked by hasty and superficial thought. In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, he emerges as a man who was more than a lucky empiricist in science, more than a naive political liberal, more than an exhaustive compiler of superficial evidence in militant support of Unitarianism. In fact, he was learned in an extraordinary variety of subjects, from grammar, education, aesthetics, metaphysics, politics, and theology to natural philosophy. Priestley was, in fact, a man of the Enlightenment.
Author : John Alexander Wilson Gunn
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773510067
Professor Gunn presents a fresh, revealing picture of the public mind in Britain, from the Glorious Revolution to the First Reform Act, showing how British people of the eighteenth century came to a new understanding of politics. Departing form the usual
Author : Joseph Priestley
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Page : 220 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 1809
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