Author
Emmanuel-Augustin-Dieudonné de Las Cases is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks (1826). One work is named, all in Reading Notebook 1825–1827, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
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 →
“The more grand, rapid, and comprehensive the mind is the less it is capable of dwelling on regular, minute details. The Emperor Napoleon who discovered wonderful facility in apprehending all that regarded the philosophy of the language, evinced very little capacity for retaining its material mechanism … Las Cases.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“The more grand, rapid, and comprehensive the mind is the less it is capable of dwelling on regular, minute details.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Attributed 'Las Cases.' at the end of the passage.