WorkSir William Temple

The Works of Sir William Temple

Sir William Temple (1628–1699)

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Documented 1828

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  • 1828Works of Sir William TempleAttested

    “I am reading Sir William Temple's works, with great pleasure.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, 3 January 1828

    MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re636 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-01 l.2221-2224, letter dated Jan 3 1828; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Explicit first-person statement 'I am reading Sir William Temple's works, with great pleasure'.

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III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
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Letter to Susan Prescott

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“I am reading Sir William Temple's works, with great pleasure. Such enlarged views are rarely to be found combined with such acuteness and discrimination.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“I am reading Sir William Temple's works, with great pleasure. Such enlarged views are rarely to be found com- bined with such acuteness and discrimination.”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.