. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... was born, in 1648, at Padstow, inCornvvall; was educated at WestminsterSchool, and at Christ Church College,Oxford; and died in 1724, dean of Nor-wich. His great work is The Connexionof the History of the Old and New Testa-ment. Among his other productions are,A Life of Mahomet; and The OriginalRight of Tithes. PRIESTLEY, Joseph, an eminent dis-senting divine and experimental philoso-pher, was born, in 1733, at Fielilhead, inYorkshire; was educated at Daventry;and, after having been tu
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... was born, in 1648, at Padstow, inCornvvall; was educated at WestminsterSchool, and at Christ Church College,Oxford; and died in 1724, dean of Nor-wich. His great work is The Connexionof the History of the Old and New Testa-ment. Among his other productions are,A Life of Mahomet; and The OriginalRight of Tithes. PRIESTLEY, Joseph, an eminent dis-senting divine and experimental philoso-pher, was born, in 1733, at Fielilhead, inYorkshire; was educated at Daventry;and, after having been tutor at Warring-ton, and pastor to various congregations,and having acquired considerable reputa-tion as an experimentalist and author, hebecame companion to the earl of the end of a seven years residencewith that nobleman, he received a pension,andsettled, in 1780,atBirmingham. Therehe proceeded actively with his philosophi-cal and theological researches, and wasalso appointed pastor to a dissenting con- PRI 425 gregation. In 1791, however, the scenechanged. His religious principles, and his. avowed partiality to the French revolution,excited the hatred of the high church andtory party, and in the riots which tookplace in July, his house, library, manu-scripts, and apparatus were, committed tothe flames by the inftiriated mob, and hewas exposed to great personal Birmingham, he succeeded at Hackney; but, in 1794, conceivinghimself to be not secure from popular rage,he embarked for North America. He tookup his abode at Northumberland, in Penn-sylvania, at which place he died May 6,1804. As a philosopher his fame princi-pally rests upon his pneumatic extend to between seventy andeighty volumes. Among them are Lectureson General History—on the Theory andHistory of Language—and on the Princi-ples of Oratory and Criticism; Charts ofBiography and History; Disquisitions re-lating to Matter and Spirit; HartleianTheory of the H
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