Joseph Priestley

Lectures on History, and General Policy Joseph Priestley

Excerpt from Lectures on History, and General Policy: To Which Is Prefixed, an Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life Where my information happened to serve me, I have occasionally corrected the author's references and quotations; but I have endeavoured, and I hope with success, that he should not be made answerable for the correctness of any references, or the pertinence of any quotations or remarks annexed, exclusively, to this edition of his work. For all such I am alone accountable, excepting the notes with 'the initials R. T., Which a reader may readily Wish to have been more numerous. These were kindly communicated by my friend Mr. Richard Taylor, and will be peculiarly ao ceptable to every studious'inquirer into the earlier records of British history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.