Tag Archives: Joseph Priestly

wedgewood : sunshine on the village green

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Dave

Wedgewood and his friends. The were the most brilliant group in England, and quite possibly the most eccentric. Some are forgotten today- but some of them changed the world. Josiah Wedgewood was born in the Staffordshire village called Burslem in … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Anna Seward, Erasmus Darwin, James Watt, John Flaxman, Joseph Priestly, Josiah Wedgewood, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Matthew Bolton, Portland Vase Wedgewood, Ray Davies, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, The Kinks, Thomas Day | Leave a comment

free choice: and there was one not three?

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Dave

Goethe was enchanted by Gottfried Arnold’s “The Impartial History of the Church and the Heretics,” writing, ” that every man in the end came to have his own religion, and now it seemed to me the most natural thing in … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Arianism, Arius Alexandrian cleric, Council of Nicaea, Doonsbury Arianism, Goethe, Gottfried Arnold, John Wycliffe, Joseph Priestly, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Master of St. Gilles, Religious Heresy, religious heretics, Saint Remy painter, Servetus | Leave a comment

heresies: bonfires of the inanities

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Dave

For in fact, when we look closely at the loose collection of historical heresies, there has been a continuity, though blurred, and hidden under a multiplicity of names, that has been fairly enduring over the centuries… For in fact, when … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Arian heresy, Arianism, Cardinal Edward Egan, Christian Heresies, Cosimo Cavallaro, Cosimo Cavallaro My Sweet Lord, Council of Nicaea, Donatist schism, Joseph Priestly, Karaites sect, Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, Nestorianism, Saint Sylvester, Sir Isaac Newton | Leave a comment

DREAM WEAVER

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Dave

A poet and painter. William Blake. After an attempt to live in the country at Sussex, at the urging of the well intentioned, but mediocre poet, William Hayley; Blake feeling himself patronized and intruded upon, returned to London. On returning … Continue reading →