Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley : $b To the year 1795, written by himself: with a continuation, to the time of his decease, by his son, Joseph Priestley: and observations on his writings, by Thomas Cooper, President Judge of the 4th. district of Pennsylvania: and the Rev. William Christie.Priestley, Joseph
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Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley : $b To the year 1795, written by himself: with a continuation, to the time of his decease, by his son, Joseph Priestley: and observations on his writings, by Thomas Cooper, President Judge of the 4th. district of Pennsylvania: and the Rev. William Christie.
Priestley, Joseph
Chemists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
A Sermon on the Wisdom of God; An Oration on the means of Virtue; 1st
Vol. of the Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion.
Business done from April 1st to June 23d.
_Practical._
Watts’s Catechism, and discourses on Catechizing; Fenelon’s spiritual
works Vol. 1st and half of Vol. 2d; Saurin’s Sermons a few; Thomas a
Kempis Book 1st to ch. 21; Cotton Mather’s life; Jenning’s on preaching
Christianity.
_Controversial._
Towgood, Gill and Breckell on Baptism; Le Clerc on Inspiration;
Whiston’s Historical preface; Emlyn’s narrative and humble enquiry;
Apostolical Constitutions; Newton on the prophecies; Winder’s History
of knowledge; Hoadly on the Sacrament; Lowman on the Revelation; Moral
Philosopher; Hume’s Political discourses; Middleton’s fathers of the
four first centuries; Middleton and Waterland’s controversy. ---- on
the Demoniacs; Goodrich’s display of Human Nature.
_Classics._
Cicero’s 1st. Phillippic.
_Historical._
Universal History Vol. 15 and 16 and to page 488 of the 17th.
_Composition._
Second Vol. of the Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion; wrote
an article on Edwards’s translation of the Psalms for the review.
From June 23d to September 1.
_Practical Writers._
Thomas a Kempis from Ch. 21 of Book 1st; Hartley on Man vol. 2d. May’s
Prayers. Holland’s Sermons.
_Scriptures._
From the 1st Epistle of Timothy to the Revelations, and the Gospels of
Matthew, Mark, and Luke, in the Greek Testament; The books of Genesis,
Exodus, and Leviticus, in the Hebrew Bible.
_Classics._
Ovid from Book 9th; Demosthenes 1st Phillippic and 3 Olynthiacs;
Herodotus Book 1st; Homer’s Iliad, Book 1, 2, 3; Sallust.
_History._
Universal History from Vol. 17 p. 488 to the end of Vol. 18. Neal’s
History of the Puritans 4 Volumes.
_Philosophy._
The Anatomical Articles in the Universal Dictionary, several principal
Algebraic ones, and all the letter A.
_Composition._
12 Sermons.
Business done in September.
_Practical._
Holland’s Sermons, Vol. 2d; Doddridge’s family Expositor Vol. 1.
_Scriptures._
John the Evangelist, in Greek.
Numbers, and to the 16th Chapter in Deuteronomy in Hebrew.
_Classics._
Homer’s Iliad, 12 books.
_Mathematical._
Euclid, Lib. 1, 2, 3.
_History._
Universal History, Vol. 19th.
_Miscellaneous._
Mason’s Student; One of Shakespeare’s plays.
_Composition._
4 Sermons.
Business done in October.
_Practical._
Doddridge’s Expositor Vol. 2d; Common Prayer Book; Fordyce’s Sermons on
public Institutions.
_Scriptures._
Deuteronomy from Ch. 16 to the end; Ecclesiastes and Solomon’s Song in
Hebrew and Greek.
_Classics._
Homer’s Iliad, Book P to the end.
_Mathematical._
Euclid, Lib, 4, 5, 6.
_Historical._
Universal History, Vol. 20th.
_Miscellaneous._
5 Shakespeare’s Plays.
_Composition._
3 Sermons.
Business done in November.
_Practical._
Abernethy’s Practical Sermons.
_Scriptures._
Job, in Hebrew and the Septuagint.
_Philosophy, Mathematics and Chemistry._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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