This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
Joseph PriestleyI have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.
Joseph PriestleyOrthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
Joseph Priestley