Biblical Book
Documented in Fuller’s letters, books, notebooks, memoirs
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
“What fault do you find with Goethe's lyricks— Each one gives a mood of the mind with marked expression and intense and beautiful language— Does not the perusal of them rouse your imagination and make you think or in some cases rouse you to unexpected passion— What would you have?”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“as the full soul loathes the honeycomb”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“those modern sages, who, in imitation of the sitting philosophers of ancient Ind, prefer silence to speech, waiting to going, and scornfully smile in answer to the motions of earnest life, / "Of itself will nothing come, / That ye must still be seeking?”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred The two quoted lines—'Of itself will nothing come, / That ye must still be seeking'—are most consistent with Schiller's epigrammatic poems on Oriental wisdom; the closest match is his 'Sprüche des Konfuzius' (Proverbs of Confucius, 1795/96), which Fuller mocks by attributing to 'modern sages — in imitation of the sitting philosophers of ancient Ind.'
“the nursery legend comprised a primitive truth of the understanding and the wisdom of nations in the lines, ?”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“When he of the olden time prayed, "Give me neither poverty nor riches,”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p297
Inferred Fuller's quotation of the key phrase and attribution to "he of the olden time" align with the traditional identification of this prayer with Agur son of Jakeh.
“but just be thankful if we can get our dinner of herbs and love therewith”
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.
“Truly, the soft answer turneth away wrath.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred In this journal entry, Margaret Fuller quotes a well-known biblical maxim, "Truly, the soft answer turneth away wrath." This phrase, verbatim from the King James Version of the Book of Proverbs, reflects on the power of gentle language to diffuse conflict, a theme resonating with her observations at Brook Farm.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord' .. There is more rhetorice in that one sentence, than in a library of sermons”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Sir Thomas Browne." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (87); Box 6 (87).