Author

Augustine of Hippo(354–430 CE)

Augustine of Hippo is documented in Fuller’s journals (1841–1843). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Journal November 1841, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.

Engagement: QuotedReadMentioned
Present in: Journals
Documented: 1841–1843

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

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

“Of Ideas says St Augustine / "Credibilis est quia presens est eis, quantum id capere possunt, tamen Rationis aeternae, ubi haec immutabilia vera conspiciunt, non quod moverant aliquando et obliti sunt, quod Platoni vel talibus visum est".”

De Diversis Quaestionibus LXXXIII, Quaestio 46 [Eighty-Three Different Questions, Question 46: On Ideas] · Journal November 1841 · 1841

When Fuller engaged with Augustine of Hippo

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

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.

Hippo in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1841—

Journal November 1841

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“Of Ideas says St Augustine / "Credibilis est quia presens est eis, quantum id capere possunt, tamen Rationis aeternae, ubi haec immutabilia vera conspiciunt, non quod moverant aliquando et obliti sunt, quod Platoni vel talibus visum est".”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal November 1841." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086; Box 5.

Inferred Fuller quotes from Augustine in Latin without naming the specific work. Source work inferred from content. The title is inferred.

1843—

Journal January 1843

read

“the publication of St Augustine's confessions as a new years gift make my day.”

Also reprinted in New Year's Day, 1843. Counted once, at its first appearance.

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal January 1843." Houghton Library, Harvard University.