I have procured air [oxygen] between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
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I have procured air [oxygen] between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.
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Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.
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It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to which it may be reduced, are nowhere laid down, or asserted, in the Scriptures, but others quite contrary to them.
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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
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When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.
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But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
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This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
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From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.
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Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.
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It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
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Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
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Too many christians have been chargeable with… confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John , and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.
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The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.
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