How To Use Priestley In A Sentence
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_ It has been shewn by Dr. Priestley and Mr. Ingenhouz that the green matter at the bottom of cisterns, and the fresh leaves of plants immersed in water, give out considerable quantities of vital air in the sun-shine; that is, the perspirable matter of plants (which is water much divided in its egress from their minute pores) becomes decomposed by the sun's light, and converted into two kinds of air, the vital and inflammable airs.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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Professor David and R. Priestley, the geologists of Shackleton's expedition, refer to Ferrar's and Prior's description of the foundation rocks, and state that according to their own investigations the foundation rocks consist of banded gneis, gneissic granite, grano-diorite, and diorite rich in sphene, besides coarse crystalline limestone as enclosures in the gneiss.
The South Pole~ Fram Expedition Geology
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And by these means the opposition to enemy ideologies can in one sense be overcome with a commitment to the notion that inclusion increases safety: "the more political liberty [the people] have, the safer is their civil liberty," Priestley writes.
Romantic Fear
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E.H. Carr, Isaac Deutscher, the novelist Naomi Mitchison (a "silly sympathiser"), and J.B. Priestley all pursued very successful careers without, so far as we know, any hindrance from the British government.
Orwell's List
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It's a semi-auto biographical novel about a cop, Detective chief Inspector Jack Priestley, and his best friend, reformed criminal Steve Blade.
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Priestley left his home - what was left of it - went to London, and in 1794 emigrated to the banks of the Susquehanna River where he and other intellectuals tried to set up a utopian community (Pantisocracy).
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Priestley used every available information network of the day to share his discoveries and insights: he published nearly five hundred books and pamphlets over the course of his life, and wrote endless correspondence to his colleagues, documenting in exhaustive detail the techniques behind his experiments.
Boing Boing
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Groups operating within The Priestley will now run as individual business organisations, with their own financial accounts.
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Newton's millenarian enthusiasm, based upon the deeply held notion that human history was orchestrated by God, was matched later in the century by the millennial speculations of the high priest of rational Dissent, Joseph Priestley.
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Priestley's warning was that it was essentially a cheat.
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Priestley's rational outlook in science carried over to religion.
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Priestley's rational outlook in science carried over to religion.
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Dr. Priestley founds, not on the _resemblance or analogy, _ but on the _essential difference_, between created and uncreated intelligence; but, in point of fact, the _difference_, great and real as it is, has no bearing on the only question at issue; it is the _resemblance or analogy_ between all thinking beings and the
Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
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It was first synthesized in 1776 by Joseph Priestley and was named ‘diminished nitrous air.’
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First, by the late discoveries of Dr. Priestley, M. Lavoisier, and other philosophers, it appears, that the basis of atmospherical air, called oxygene, is received by the blood through the membranes of the lungs; and that by this addition the colour of the blood is changed from a dark to a light red.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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Now the work of Priestley's which I refer to as applying the prophecy of Isaiah to the Jewish nation, as I do, is entitled
Five Pebbles from the Brook
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In 1772, Priestley, after discovering that the sojourn of animals in a confined atmosphere renders it irrespirable, investigated the influence of plants placed in the same conditions, and he relates, in these words, the discovery that he made on the subject:
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
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Recently I also quoted Priestley and his abhorrence of ‘… the saddest waste of all, the waste of human beings’.
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Within the civil service the Priestley pay bargaining system was abolished which linked civil service pay to rates in the private sector.
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Priestley's rational outlook in science carried over to religion.
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The source of the gas, which Bonnet had first noticed to be given off from plant-leaves, Priestley had identified as oxygen, and Ingenhousz had proved to be only given off under the influence of the sun's rays, was finally shown by a Swiss naturalist, Jean Sénébier [6] (1742-1809), to be the _carbonic acid gas_ in the air, which the plant absorbed and decomposed, giving out the oxygen and assimilating the carbon.
Manures and the principles of manuring
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Arguing thus, Priestley, of course, named the new aeriform substance _dephlogisticated air_, and thought of it as ordinary air deprived of some, or it might be all, of its phlogiston.
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
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Tom Priestley, the editor, secluded himself with a Moviola at the Heart of Rabun to turn out a rough cut from thousands of feet of film.
Summer of Deliverance
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In this remarkable book he tells of his discovery of oxygen -- "empyreal" or "fire-air," as he calls it -- which he seems to have made independently and without ever having heard of the previous discovery by Priestley.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
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Joseph Priestley, the great Unitarian humanist and discoverer of oxygen, was wedded to a bogus theory of the chemistry of gasses wherein they burned into “phlogiston,” which he called a “principle of inflammability.”
Flaws of Gravity
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Rhazes, and of phosphorus by Bechil, are almost the only landmarks in the history of the science, until the discovery of oxygen and the destruction of the phlogistic theory by Priestley and Lavoisier, together with the introduction of the balance and the thermometer into the laboratory, rendered quantitative experiments possible.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864
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Priestley found that the same kind of air was to be obtained by moistening with the spirit of nitre (which he terms nitrous acid) any kind of earth that is free from phlogiston, and applying heat; and consequently he says: "There remained no doubt on my mind but that the atmospherical air, or the thing that we breathe, consists of the nitrous acid and earth, with so much phlogiston as is necessary to its elasticity, and likewise so much more as is required to bring it from its state of perfect purity to the mean condition in which we find it.
Science & Education
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Priestley is reluctant to say what he will bring to it from his own upbringing in Vancouver.
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In the course of his researches, Priestley found that the quantity of common air which can thus become "phlogisticated," amounts to about one-fifth the volume of the whole quantity submitted to experiment.
Science & Education
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Joseph Priestley had edited Hartley into a textbook of associationist psychology by eliminating much of the physiology (and by also eliminating much of the rather odd theology with which Hartley ended his work).
John Stuart Mill
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In a scries of trials, Priestley showed that the same gas that supports animal respiration is given oil by green plants.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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It would be a good idea if, like Mike Priestley suggested, the building was opened up like a stately home with tour guides showing off the Victorian splendours.
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This week marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Priestley.
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Dr. Priestley, which is universally produced in stagnant water, and the mucor, or mouldiness, which is seen on the surface of all putrid vegetable and animal matter, have probably no parents, but
Note I
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After leaving the Old Vic, he played Eric Birling in J. B. Priestley's, An Inspector Calls at the New Theatre in October 1946.
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Easier, though, to quote JB Priestley: ‘To say that men paid their shillings to watch 22 hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.’
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This week marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Priestley.
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On the other hand, Priestley found that air "phlogisticated" by combustion or respiration could be "dephlogisticated," or have the properties of pure common air restored to it, by the action of green plants in sunshine.
Science & Education
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It is the dimensionless world of the subconscious mind or, as Priestley called it, the Unconscious.
Ballardian » Landscapes From a Dream: How the Art of David Pelham Captured the Essence of J G Ballard’s Early Fiction
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And he further insisted that the experiments of Priestley proved water to be composed "of hydrogene and oxygene.
Priestley in America 1794-1804
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Priestley's warning was that it was essentially a cheat.
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Now, after another ex-90210 co-star Jason Priestley announced he'd be ret urning to the famous postcode to direct shows, Spelling - the daughter of the show's creator Aaron Spelling
Entertainment - Female First
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The meeting house where Priestley rose in 1780 owned-upon its destruction by a ‘Church and King’ mob in 1791-123 kneeling cushions and 319 psalm books.
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Priestley, a nonconformist Presbyterian minister, was supported in his scientific studies by the patronage of the Earl of Shelburne, in whose house Priestley was tutor.
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Priestley's nonconformist views and his support for the French Revolution brought him into conflict with the Government and many people, including George III, believed he was an atheist.
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Priestley Smith has pointed out that the glaucomatous eye softens more slowly than the normal eye after enucleation, in spite of the fact that a greater force is operating to drive fluid out of the eye.
Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
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This attribution of mercenariness to Burke (who had in fact accepted a small pension from the British government for services rendered, and who had also been the London lobbyist or representative of the colony of New York during his defense of the rights of the American colonists) is also to be found in the work of Thomas Paine and Dr. Joseph Priestley.
Reactionary Prophet
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Priestley interpreted them in terms of phlogiston — the hypothetical principle of flammability that was thought to give metals their luster and ductility and was widely used in the early eighteenth century to explain combustion, calcination, smelting, respiration, and other chemical processes.
Priestley, Joseph
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It would be a good idea if, like Mike Priestley suggested, the building was opened up like a stately home with tour guides showing off the Victorian splendours.
