The candidates had the book with them in the exam-room, and the name Priestley is in large letters on the front of the book. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-08-01] Reference
You probably wouldn't call Priestley "mad" in the psychological sense of the word. From Wordnik.com. [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference
"Priestley, which is universally produced in stagnant water. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
Few of the leaders of science were in such a position: many of them, such as Priestley, Davy, Faraday, John. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work] Reference
Watson and Paley and Parr; Unitarians such as Priestley and Gilbert. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
He was an opponent most aptly suited to Priestley. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
Priestley was comparatively at ease in his new home. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Franklin's last day in England was given to Priestley. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Priestley resigned his fellowship in the Royal Society. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
He was a person 'far better qualified,' said Priestley. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Priestley should have been singled out for unwelcome honors. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Priestley was fully conscious of the humor of his situation. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Priestley missed seeing Vice-president John Adams by one day. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
On March 30, 1794, Priestley delivered his farewell discourse. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Priestley was objectionable because he was a friend of France. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
After some months Priestley began to think it possible that the new. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
Priestley lamented that a man of Franklin's character and influence. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
England to verify Franklin's experiments, was a friend of Priestley. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
We can afford to be as philosophic over the matter as Priestley was. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Lord Shelburne to invite Priestley to become his 'literary companion.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Perhaps Priestley objected to school-mastering because it was laborious. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Priestley was not to have the full measure of the rest which he coveted. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Priestley was hailed as the wonder of his age, and for a while its oracle. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
Researches of Priestley, Ingenhousz, Sénébier, on assimilation of carbon 11-12. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
Priestley had made a discovery which was destined to change Alchemy into Chemistry. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
Priestley says that the only person who took 'much interest' was Mr. Hey, a surgeon. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Priestley was tremendously popular from the '20s to the' 40s (he died at 89 in 1984). From Wordnik.com. [Broadway's British Invasion] Reference
Priestley, discovery of evolution of oxygen by plants, 11; on nitrogen in plants, 40. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
Dr. HOLMES: And there's this extraordinary moment, and Priestley packs up for the day. From Wordnik.com. [A Mouse Asks for Mercy] Reference
Lorne Priestley: It's all good news -- things seem to be moving in the right direction. From Wordnik.com. ['Those Guys Saved His Life'] Reference
Priestley believed that he 'could not have acquitted himself in it to proper advantage.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
It was hardly necessary for Priestley to add that he had 'but little leisure for reading.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
There is a sense in which it is entirely proper to say that Priestley was not a literary man. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
In company with his friend Mr. Russell, Priestley went to take tea with President Washington. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
About a year later Priestley saw again Washington, who had finished his second term of office. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
In October of that year, 1775, Franklin wrote to Priestley about the state of affairs in America. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Georges Ville was the first to reassert the older theory, put forward by Priestley and Ingenhousz. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
It was reserved for the greatest of all chemists, Antoine Lavoisier, to use the fact stumbled on by Priestley. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
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