Lectures On History, and General Policy: To Which Is Prefixed, an Essay On a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life

by Joseph Priestley

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642 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2007

About the author

Joseph Priestley was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works.

During his lifetime, Priestley's considerable scientific reputation rested on his invention of soda water, his writings on electricity, and his discovery of several "airs" (gases), the most famous being what Priestley dubbed "dephlogisticated air" (oxygen).

Reviews

[Jonathan Alexander Higgins · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book from 1788 overall as it good a good overall picture of a educational course in History with emphasis on Greek and Roman times. One item that I found most difficult in the text was the misspelling of people's names. Another issue I had was the inability of providing complete citations of authors used when citing other books. Often the author would provide only last names of authors (sometimes misspelled) and incomplete titles of books. The book also provided a good overview on how a country should be run from the prespective of the 18th century. I would recommend this book.