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Definition of Joseph priestley
1. Noun. English chemist who isolated many gases and discovered oxygen (independently of Scheele) (1733-1804).
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Literary usage of Joseph priestley
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1885)
"He took up his pen and produced a pamphlet which he called " Observations on the
Emigration of Doctor joseph priestley. By Peter Porcupine. ..."
2. History of Zionism, 1600-1918 by Nahum Sokolow (1919)
"By joseph priestley, LL.DFRS . . . Birmingham, . ... [IS] Page 56 : " Your brother
in the sole worship Of the one only true God, joseph priestley. ..."
3. American Philosophy: The Early Schools by Woodbridge Riley, Isaac Woodbridge Riley (1907)
"... CHAPTER IV joseph priestley JOSEPH Priestley, metaphysician and materialist,
came to America.in 1794. Fleeing, as Jefferson said, from the fires and ..."
4. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1907)
"TO DOCTOR joseph priestley. WASHINGTON, January 29, 1804. DEAR SIR,—Your favor
of December the 12th came duly to hand, as did the second letter to Doctor ..."
5. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"joseph priestley was a man of amazing activity and versatility of mind. Brought up
amongst the dissenters as a strict Calvinist, he had gradually passed ..."
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