The Sermon on the Mount

Biblical Episode

Documented in Fuller’s letters, books, memoirs

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

Related

Representative documentary evidence

1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“into his mind so long ago shone steadily the two thoughts, now so prevalent in thinking and aspiring minds, of "Resist not evil," and "Every man his own priest, and the heart the only true church.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.

1849—

The Letters of Margaret Fuller: Edited by Robert N

quoted
“a little of the salt of the earth is more than ever needed in this hot climate.”

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.

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“Happy the fowls of the air, who do not have to think so much about their arrangements!”

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 Identification rationale not yet recorded.

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

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The Letters of Margaret Fuller: Edited by Robert N

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“You wish, dear [ ], that I was not obliged to toil and spin, but could live, for a while, like the lilies.”

Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.