 | Joseph Priestley - Chemistry - 1806 - 510 pages
...and at his house he died. While I was at Leeds a proposal was made to me • • DH. PEIESTLEV. 67 to accompany Captain Cook in his second voyage to...advantageous, I consented to it, and the heads of my congrega• tion had agreed to keep an assistant to supply my place during my absence. But Mr. Banks... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Atonement - 1827 - 490 pages
...to his friend, Dr. Burncy, and at his house he died. While I was at Leeds, a proposal was made tome, to accompany Captain Cook in his second voyage to...some clergymen in the Board of Longitude, who had the direction of this business, on account of my religious principles; and presently after I heard... | |
 | John Towill Rutt - Chemists - 1831 - 450 pages
...Leeds, a proposal was made to me to accompany Captain Cook in his second voyage to the South Seas.J As the terms were very advantageous, I consented to...the heads of my congregation had agreed to keep an * See supra, p. 59. t In 1767. See Mon. Rev. XXXVII. 93, 242, 449. " Observations and Experiments on... | |
 | John Towill Rutt - Chemists - 1831 - 450 pages
...Leeds, a proposal was made to me to accompany Captain Cook in his second voyage to the South Seas^t As the terms were very advantageous, I consented to...the heads of my congregation had agreed to keep an * See supra, p. £9. f In 1767. See Mo*. Rev. XXXVII. 93, 242, 449. " Observations and Experiments... | |
 | Richard Vickerman Taylor - 1865 - 552 pages
...presented itself to his view. His habits of regularity were such that everything proposals were made to him to accompany Captain Cook in his second voyage to the South Seas ; but when about to prepare for his departure, it was intimated to him by Mr. (afterwards Sir Joseph)... | |
 | 1874 - 586 pages
...distinction in their power, by awarding him the Copley Medal. In 1771, a proposal was made to Priestley to accompany Captain Cook in his second voyage to the South Seas. He accepted it, and his congregation agreed to pay an assistant to supply his place during his absence.... | |
 | Alfred Ely Beach - Industrial arts - 1875 - 612 pages
...distinction in their power, by awarding him the Copley Medal. In 1771 a proposal was made to Priestley to accompany Captain Cook in his second voyage to the South Seas. He accepted it, but the appointment lay in the hands of the Board of Longitude, of which certain clergymen... | |
 | British and Foreign Unitarian Association - 1875 - 202 pages
...distinction in their power, by awarding him the Copley Medal. In 1771, a proposal was made to Priestley to accompany Captain Cook in his second voyage to the South Seas. He accepted it, and his congregation agreed to pay an assistant to supply his place during his absence.... | |
 | 1875 - 190 pages
...distinction in their power, by awarding him the Copley Medal. In 1771, a proposal was made to Priestley to accompany Captain Cook in his second voyage to the South Seas. He accepted it, and his congregation agreed to pay an assistant to supply his place during his absence.... | |
 | Alfred Ely Beach - Industries - 1875 - 648 pages
...distinction in their power, by awarding him the Copley Medal. In 1771 a proposal was made to Priestley to accompany Captain Cook in his second voyage to the South Seas. He accepted it, but the appointment lay in the hands of the Board of Longitude, of which certain clergymen... | |
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While I was at Leeds, a proposal was made to me to accompany Captain Cook in his second voyage to the South Seas. As the terms were very advantageous, I consented to it, and the heads of my congregation had agreed to keep an assistant to supply my place... 
