Author

Joseph Butler(1692–1752)

Joseph Butler is documented in Fuller’s books (1843). One work is named, all in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Books
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1843
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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“A bereaved lover was seeking religious consolation in--Butler's Analogy, which he had purchased for that purpose. However, he did not turn over many pages before his attention was drawn aside by the gay glances of certain damsels that came on board at Detroit, and, though Butler might afterwards be seen sticking from his pocket, it had not weight to impede him from many a feat of lightness and liveliness.”
The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature · Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 · 1843

When Fuller engaged with Joseph Butler

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Butler in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

mentioned
“A bereaved lover was seeking religious consolation in--Butler's Analogy, which he had purchased for that purpose.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.