Philosophical empiricism : containing remarks on a charge of plagiarism respecting Dr. H----s, interspersed with various observations relating to different kinds of air / by Joseph Priestley.

  • Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.
Date:
1775
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Credit: Philosophical empiricism : containing remarks on a charge of plagiarism respecting Dr. H----s, interspersed with various observations relating to different kinds of air / by Joseph Priestley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Philofophical Empiricifm. ig mentioned with me, that you had feen the fame with Dr. H-—s. Was it in his firft, in his fecond, or in his third courfe ? for you mention three of them. I will add, that the experiments which I exhibited to you were lb very remarkable, and fo exceedingly different from any others, of which any printed account was then publifti- ed, that they mull have ft ruck you in a par¬ ticular manner; and therefore you cannot but remember pretty nearly when it was that you firft faw them. I do not even think it poflible that they could have been exhibited at any public ledture in London, without oc- cafioning fo much converfation among philo- fophers upon the fubjeft, that I muft myfelf have heard of them. You need not make any apology for what you call violating the laws of hofpitality, pro¬ vided you have fcrupuloufty obferved (as I am fully fatisfied you have done intentionally') the much more important laws of truth. I am. Dear Sir, Your obedient humble Servant, Shelburne-houfe, J. Priestley.