Author

William Law(1686–1761)

William Law is documented in Fuller’s books (1846). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Papers on Literature and Art, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
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1846
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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

“We wish indeed that this spirit had been still better understood by them, and that, in ceasing to be the pupils of William Law, they had not felt obliged to denounce his mode of viewing religious truth as 'poisonous mysticism.”
Papers on Literature and Art · 1846

When Fuller engaged with William Law

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Documentary evidence

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

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

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analyzed · read
“We wish indeed that this spirit had been still better understood by them, and that, in ceasing to be the pupils of William Law, they had not felt obliged to denounce his mode of viewing religious truth as 'poisonous mysticism.”

Also reprinted in New-York Daily Tribune. Counted once, at its first appearance.

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.