WorkEdward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury Written by Himself (Strawberry Hill: Horace Walpole, 1764)
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648) · Strawberry Hill: Horace Walpole, 1764
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Documented 1842–1846
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“I have, however been much pleased of late with the life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
“I have been reading the lives of Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and of Sir Kenelm Digby.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
“Being thus doubtful in my chamber, one fair day in the summer, my casement being opened to the south, the sun shining clear and no wind stirring, I took my book, De Veritate, in my hand, and kneeling on my knees, devoutly said these words:— O, thou eternal God, author of the light which now shines upon me, and giver of all inward illuminations, I do beseech thee, of thy infinite goodness, to pardon a greater request than a sinner ought to make.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
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“As a child it was so long before I began to speak that many thought I should be even dumb.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Mostly Extracts." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (89); Box 5 (89).
“26 Dec. 1842. — I have been reading the lives of Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and of Sir Kenelm Digby...”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.