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.

    18/92 (page 14)
    The Answer. Sir, Your letter found me yefterday fent for to attend a lady ill of a fever at Guildford, and I did not return till this day noon, and in the firft moment of leifure, at io o’clock at night, I now fit down to anfwer your letter, and I hope it may clofe our correfpondence on this fubjedt of controverfy, from which my temper is truly averfe. 1 mu ft, in the firft place, fubmit to your re- confideration the'following paragraph in your letter. “ I propofe thefe queftions fo diftindt- “ ly, becaufe, unlefs you can anfwer them <c with precifion now, it cannot be thought, “ that you were able to pronounce on the tc fubjedt with fufficient precifion before.” Hereupon, I take leave to obferve, that this conclufion is not admiftlble, and that an opinion given in the inftant, and in your pre¬ fence, whilft the facts were before me, may have been altogether juft, although, at the diftance of many months (having feen, both before and afterwards, frequent and various combinations of fimilar experiments) I do not perfedtly recolledl every experiment then made, nor even all the new names you might have 4 given