Biblical Book
Documented in Fuller’s letters, books, notebooks, manuscripts, memoirs
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
“About half-past nine I go to Mr. Perkins's school and study Greek till twelve”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
“I want to read the Bible with some good commentary”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
“I have been reading Jahn's History of the Hebrew commonwealth together with the old Testament”
Fuller, Margaret. "To Frederic H. Hedge, 26 December 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 215–217. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Epistles of J. Reinhold Forster.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook January 1835." Notebook, January 1835. Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (86); Box 6.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“Josephus, of whom Eichhorn speaks / with much respect, gives no very / decisive testimony as to the canon, / he closes it in the reign of / Artaxerxes Longimanus.”
“Quotes Goethe's W. &. Divan. This / book was undoubtedly composed / to illustrate the line of David.”
Inferred Fuller explicitly notes 'Quotes Goethe's W. &. Divan' at the point where Eichhorn discusses the Book of Ruth's idyllic beauty. Divan' clearly abbreviates West-östlicher Divan. Fuller is noting that Eichhorn invokes Goethe's Divan in connection with Ruth. At p. 51 Fuller notes that Eichhorn 'Quotes Goethe's W. &. Divan' in the context of discussing the Book of Ruth's idyllic beauty.
“Books mentioned by Eichhorn which I should / like to read. / Astruc. Conjectures sur les mémoires / originaux, dont il paroit que Moyse / s'est servi pour composer le livre. / de Genese.”
“J.G. Eichhorn de Aegypti annis mirabili”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook January 1835." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (86); Box 6.
“I have finished Burdon: I think him an excellent man and a fair thinker _ but could never coincide in opinion with one who seemed to me to leave out of view a large part of our nature _ He is an infidel in the last degree _ Materialist, Necessarian, Utilitarian and yet I do believe a sincere philanthropist.”
Inferred Fuller refers to 'Burdon' (completed a book by him) and quotes three passages attributed to 'B.' without naming a specific title.
Fuller quotes three passages attributed to 'B.' (Burdon): (1) 'The debasing effect of interest on the human mind is such that we generally despise those who are superior to its temptations'; (2) 'Without imagination hope has nought to feed on, and without hope imagination will soon perish'; (3) 'The world is principally indebted to two kinds of men; those who make it better and those who prevent it from being worse.' These are aphoristic sentences consistent with William Burdon's 'Materials for Thinking,' a widely reprinted collection of philosophical and moral reflections.
“Miss Jewsbury's letters. She writes a fine style though not that concise and marked one I like. She has not the simplicity of strength but the simplicity of _holiness._”
Inferred Title inferred from 'Miss Jewsbury's letters.'.
Fuller praises her style ('fine style') while noting it lacks the 'concise and marked' quality she prefers, and attributes to Jewsbury 'the simplicity of holiness.' On page 3 Fuller also mentions 'Southey makes me think of Miss Jewsbury' in the context of deriving imagery from the Bible.
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Burdon, Hugo, Child, and Jewsbury." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“Let me know too whether I transgress in keeping your Eichhorn so long.”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
“Vouchsafe then thy protection that I may "hold on in courage of soul.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Inferred Fuller quotes the phrase "hold on in courage of soul" from Shelley's "On Death," published in 1816 with Alastor, slightly compressing the original wording when she incorporates it as a maxim.
“The Bible is a book worthy to read, / The life of those great prophets was the life we lead / From all delusive seeming ever freed [... full poem transcribed in letter]”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
“That, better than a bible in my hand, shows that it cannot be to me wholly alien.”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“At times I read the Bible at times Wordsworth I dwelt in the thoughtful solitudes of his Excursion”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
“A letter at Providence would have been like manna in the wilderness.”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.