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THE REVEREND THOMAS FULLER, D.D.

Absence: Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. Anger: Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind. Belief: He does not believe that does not live according to his belief. Chance: A wise man turns chance into good fortune. Courage: The more wit the less courage. Debt: Debt is the worst poverty. Dress: Good clothes open all doors. Excuses: Bad excuses are worse than none. Fame: Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all. Friends and Friendship: There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. Gold: It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart. Greed: If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. Husbands: Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth. Learning: Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. Marriage: If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. Memory: Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. Passion: A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him. Present: Today is yesterday’s pupil. Promises: Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. Satisfaction: He is rich that is satisfied. Travel and Tourism: Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse Virtue: Virtue is the only true nobility. Wives: He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1586

The schoolmaster and traveller William Camden’s BRITANNIA, the first comprehensive topographical survey of the British islands, followed the general form and content for such works established by Giraldus Cambrensis in the late 12th Century.

The book was written in Latin and still paid a lot of attention to the tribal divisions of Roman times in Wales. It would not see an English translation until 1610.

A WEEK: If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read. As Fuller said, commenting on the zeal of Camden, “A broken urn is a whole evidence; or an old gate still surviving out of which the city is run out.” When Solon endeavored to prove that Salamis had formerly belonged to the Athenians, and not to the Megareans, he caused the tombs to be opened, and showed that the inhabitants of Salamis turned the faces of their dead to the same side with the Athenians, but the Megareans to the opposite side. There they were to be interrogated.

THOMAS FULLER WILLIAM CAMDEN LAMB ON FULLER

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1608

June: Thomas Fuller was born at his father the Reverend Thomas Fuller’s rectory, Aldwinkle St Peter’s in Northamptonshire. He was the initial son.

June 19: Thomas Fuller was baptized, his uncle, Dr. John Davenant, bishop of Salisbury, functioning as godfather.

1621

At the age of 13 Thomas Fuller was admitted to Queens’ College, Cambridge, a school which was presided over by his uncle, Dr. John Davenant, bishop of Salisbury. Also, one of his cousins, Edward Davenant, was a tutor there.

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1625

Lent: Thomas Fuller received the B.A. at Queens’ College, Cambridge.

1628

July: Thomas Fuller received the M.A. at Queens’ College, Cambridge.

November: There was an election of fellows at Queens’ College, Cambridge, and Thomas Fuller was not selected. He moved, therefore, to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

1630

Thomas Fuller received, from Corpus Christi College, the curacy of St Benet’s, Cambridge.

1631

The Reverend Thomas Fuller published a poem, DAVID’S HEINOUS SINNE, HEARTIE REPENTANCE, HEAVIE PUNISHMENT, on the subject of the Old Testament account of David and Bathsheba.

June: Dr. John Davenant, bishop of Salisbury, provided his nephew the Reverend Thomas Fuller with a prebend in Salisbury — where Thomas’s father the Reverend Thomas Fuller (who would die in the following year) already held a canonry.

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1634

The Reverend Thomas Fuller became the rector at Broadwindsor in Dorset (which then was part of the diocese of Bristol).

1635

June 11: Grant of the Province of New Hampshire From Mr. Wollaston to Mr. Mason. READ THE FULL TEXT READ THE FULL TEXT

In England, the Reverend Thomas Fuller became B.D. (Bachelor of Divinity).

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1639

While he was serving as the rector at Broadwindsor in Dorset, the Reverend Thomas Fuller had been compiling his history of the period of the crusades, THE HISTORIE OF THE HOLY WARRE, which was published during this year. He had also been composing his THE HOLY STATE AND THE PROPHANE STATE, an analysis of a “holy” situation as it might be brought into existence within the family and in public life as well, which would see publication in 1642. This work, which would provide rules of conduct, and model “characters,” for various professions and styles of life, would over the years come to be exceedingly well accepted:

A WEEK: If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read. As Fuller said, commenting on the zeal of Camden, “A broken urn is a whole evidence; or an old gate still surviving out of which the city is run out.” When Solon endeavored to prove that Salamis had formerly belonged to the Athenians, and not to the Megareans, he caused the tombs to be opened, and showed that the inhabitants of Salamis turned the faces of their dead to the same side with the Athenians, but the Megareans to the opposite side. There they were to be interrogated.

THOMAS FULLER WILLIAM CAMDEN LAMB ON FULLER

HOLY AND PROFANE STATES

1640

Publication of an initial volume of the Reverend Thomas Fuller’s sermons, entitled JOSEPH’S PARTY- COLOURED COAT. He got married with Eleanor Grove, a daughter of Hugh Grove of Chisenbury in Wiltshire. At the convocation of Canterbury which occurred along with the “Short Parliament,” he was elected proctor for Bristol. On the sudden dissolution of this parliament, he joined himself to the minority group of those who were urging that this religious synod should likewise dissolve itself (the religious assembly would, however, at royal decree, continue, and eventually during civil war he would need to pay to the Roundheads a fine of £200 for having had a part in it — you will find the details in the Reverend’s CHURCH-HISTORY OF BRITAIN).

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1641

William Habington’s OBSERVATIONS VPON HISTORIE (Printed by T. Cotes for Will. Cooke, and are to be sold at his shop, neere Furnivalls-Inne gate in Holborne), created in collaboration with his father Sir Thomas Habington.

Due to the onset of the English Civil War, in Broadwindsor the Reverend Thomas Fuller, his curate Henry Sanders, the churchwardens, and five others needed to certify that each and every adult male of their parish, 242 in total, had sworn the Protestation oath that had been ordered by the speaker of the Long Parliament. Although he would not be formally dispossessed of his living and prebend on the triumph of the Presbyterian party, at about this period he would relinquish both preferments. For a short time he would preach at the Inns of Court and then, at the invitation of Walter Balcanqual, the master of the Savoy, and the brotherhood of that foundation, he would become lecturer at their chapel of St Mary Savoy. Sometimes his hearers there would overflow the structure and stand in the chapel-yard looking in at the windows and doors. In one of his sermons he would set forth the hindrances to peace, and urge the signing of peace petitions directed both to King Charles I at Oxford, and to the Parliament.

June 6: The Reverend Thomas Fuller baptized his son John at Broadwindsor (the mother, Eleanor Grove Fuller, died; the infant John would afterwards be of Sidney Sussex College, would in 1662 edit his father’s THE WORTHIES OF ENGLAND, and would become rector of Great Wakering in Essex, where he would die in 1687). HISTORY OF THE WORTHIES HISTORY OF THE WORTHIES HISTORY OF THE WORTHIES

1642

Since he had become rector of Broadwindsor in Dorset in 1634, the Reverend Thomas Fuller. B.D. had been working away on his conception of a “holy” situation, as it might be brought into existence within the family and in public life as well. THE HOLY STATE AND THE PROPHANE STATE, which provides rules of conduct and model “characters” for various professions and styles of life, at this time received its initial publication. Over the years this volume’s counsel would come to be more and more admired and embraced. HOLY AND PROFANE STATES

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A WEEK: If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read. As Fuller said, commenting on the zeal of Camden, “A broken urn is a whole evidence; or an old gate still surviving out of which the city is run out.” When Solon endeavored to prove that Salamis had formerly belonged to the Athenians, and not to the Megareans, he caused the tombs to be opened, and showed that the inhabitants of Salamis turned the faces of their dead to the same side with the Athenians, but the Megareans to the opposite side. There they were to be interrogated.

THOMAS FULLER WILLIAM CAMDEN LAMB ON FULLER

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1643

January 2: APPEAL OF INJURED INNOCENCE describes how on this day because of the English Civil War the House of Lords instructed Thomas Fuller as one member of a party of gentlemen to convey a Westminster Petition to King Charles I at Oxford. Their deputation was to have the use of two coaches, four or six horses, and eight or ten attendants.

During the progress of the war Sir Henry Vane would be placed on all commissions such as this one, that would be empowered to negotiate with the monarch.

January 4: On the arrival of the House of Lords’s deputation at the Treaty of Uxbridge, officers of the Parliamentary army searched the gentlemen and their coaches and discovered “two scandalous books arraigning the proceedings of the House,” plus coded communications intended for Lord Viscount Falkland and Lord Spencer. A joint order of both Houses recalled this deputation and Thomas Fuller and the other gentlemen were briefly imprisoned. Their Westminster Petition would however reach King Charles I and he would publish it with a royal response.

March 27: It being expected that a favorable result would attend the negotiations at Oxford, Thomas Fuller preached a sermon at Westminster Abbey, on the anniversary of King Charles I’s accession, on the text, “Yea, let him take all, so my Lord the King return in peace.”

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THE PEOPLE OF A WEEK: THOMAS FULLER, D.D. July 26, Wednesday: The Reverend Thomas Fuller preached on church reformation, satirizing religious reformers and maintaining that only the Supreme Power could initiate reforms. After this he would need to leave London.

August: The Reverend Thomas Fuller joined King Charles I at Oxford, where he lodged in a chamber at Lincoln College. Thence he put forth a witty and effective reply to John Saltmarsh, who had attacked his views on ecclesiastical reform.

1644

May 10: The Reverend Thomas Fuller’s audience at St Mary’s, Oxford included King Charles I and Prince Charles, and the monarch requested that his sermon, on “Jacob’s Vow,” be published. Yet, when this sermon would be read by the high royalists, there would be consternation! –To quiet this matter the Reverend would become chaplain to the regiment of Sir Ralph Hopton.

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1645

For the initial five years of the English Civil War, the Reverend Thomas Fuller had had “little list or leisure to write, fearing to be made a history, and shifting daily for my safety. All that time I could not live to study, who did only study to live.” After the defeat of the regiment of Sir Ralph Hopton, for which the Reverend had been serving as chaplain, at Cheriton Down, the Reverend sought refuge at Basing House near Basingstoke in Hampshire and, although he participated fully in its defense, was able also to produce a small volume of prayers and meditations –GOOD THOUGHTS IN BAD TIMES– which was set up and printed in the besieged university city of Exeter in Devon.

GOOD THOUGHTS IN BAD TIMES

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1646

The FEAR OF LOSING LIFE OLD LIGHT was the Reverend Thomas Fuller’s farewell discourse among his royalist friends at Exeter. Under the Articles of Surrender he then confessed to a “delinquency” –in that he had been present in the garrisons of the monarch– and thus reconciled with the parliamentarian government at London. His subsequent ANDRONICUS, OR THE UNFORTUNATE POLITICIAN although a fiction was in part all too reality- based — in that it was revolutionary leaders who were being satirized.

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THE PEOPLE OF A WEEK: THOMAS FULLER, D.D. March 21: In the English Civil War, the Parliamentarians won the Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold.

The Reverend Thomas Fuller was awarded Oxford University’s Bodleian lectureship.

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1647

Vicar Robert Herrick’s NOBLE NUMBERS, made up of spiritual works. In the wake of the English Civil War he was ejected from his vicarage for refusing the Solemn League and Covenant and would need to depart from Dean Prior in Devonshire. In Westminster near London, he would depend for a period upon the charity of friends and family.

At Boughton House, where he was being hosted by Edward Lord Montagu, the Reverend Thomas Fuller prepared, for the comforting of the afflicted during the conflict, GOOD THOUGHTS IN WORSE TIMES, and CAUSE AND CURE OF A WOUNDED CONSCIENCE. Among the Parliamentarians, Sir John Danvers of Chelsea, one of the regicides of King Charles I, came to his aid, not holding it against him that he had been among the supporters of the Royalists. He was allowed to preach in the capacity of lecturer at St Clement’s Eastcheap near London Bridge and elsewhere, and although at one point this privilege was suspended it was soon

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THE PEOPLE OF A WEEK: THOMAS FULLER, D.D. reinstated. He was even allowed, at Chelsea, to preach a sermon upon the demise of the monarch.

GOOD THOUGHTS, WORSE TIMES He was during this period also translating out of the Latin penmanship of his friend the Archbishop James Ussher ANNALES VETERIS TESTAMENTI, À PRIMÂ MUNDI ORIGINE DEDUCTI, as THE ANNALS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD.

June 17: The Royalists holding Exeter and Oxford University having surrendered and been disarmed, and the surrounding forces of the Parliament having then allowed them peaceably and with dignity to disperse into the countryside, the Reverend Thomas Fuller gave up his Bodleian lectureship.

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1648

The Reverend Thomas Fuller became chaplain to James Hay, 2nd Earl of Carlisle, who provided him either during this year or the following one with the curacy of Waltham Abbey. Upon the appointment of Oliver Cromwell’s “Tryers” his possession of this living would fall into jeopardy but, with ready wit and humility, he would succeed in defusing the inquisition.

1650

Lionel Cranfield, 3rd Earl of Middlesex, who lived at Copt Hall near Waltham, restored to the Reverend Thomas Fuller what remained of the library of the lord treasurer his father. Through the good offices of the marchioness of Hertford, a portion of his own pillaged library was returned to him. He was thus enabled to resume literary production and created a descriptive geography of the Holy Land, A PISGAH-SIGHT OF PALESTINE.

1652

At about this point the Reverend Thomas Fuller remarried, with Mary Roper, the youngest sister of Thomas, Viscount Baltinglass. The couple would produce several children.

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1655

During this year the Reverend Thomas Fuller was publishing his THE CHURCH-HISTORY OF BRITAIN; FROM THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST, UNTILL THE YEAR M. DC. XLVIII. ENDEAVOURED BY THOMAS FULLER, D.D. PREBENDARY OF SARUM (London, Printed for Iohn Williams at the sign of the Crown in St Paul’s Church- yard). When Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell issued his edict prohibiting adherents of the late king from preaching, the dignity of the Reverend, preaching at Waltham, was not disturbed.

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1657

With the Reverend Thomas Fuller’s CHURCH-HISTORY OF BRITAIN was printed and bound his THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, SINCE THE CONQUEST and his THE HISTORY OF WALTHAM-ABBEY IN ESSEX, FOUNDED BY KING HAROLD.

This CHURCH-HISTORY with its 166 dedications to wealthy and noble friends would meet, from the high- church folks, with a considerable amount of anger. He would be lampooned as a scribbler scattering pages the way the trees each year scatter their leaves. He would be depicted as running up and down the streets of London with his little wife on one arm and this huge tome under the other, seeking invitations to dinner which he would repay at table by dull jests.

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1658

The Reverend Thomas Fuller became chaplain to George Berkeley, 1st Earl Berkeley (1628-1698) of Cranford House, Middlesex (this was not our Bishop Berkeley but one of his ancestors), and was awarded the Cranford rectory.

1659

The Reverend Thomas Fuller replied to Heylyn’s EXAMEN HISTORICUM with THE APPEAL OF INJURED INNOCENCE.

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1660

With King Charles II restored to the throne, Robert Herrick petitioned for his own restoration to his living as vicar of Dean Prior in Devonshire.

While the Reverend Thomas Fuller’s AN ALARUM TO THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES propagandized for a Parliament that would be free from force, from abjurations, and from previous engagements, his MIXT CONTEMPLATIONS IN BETTER TIMES offered a more personal ministry to the Christian soul. MIXT CONTEMPLATIONS

There is reason to infer that the Reverend was one of those who went to the Hague immediately before the Restoration in the retinue of George Berkeley, 1st Earl Berkeley (1628-1698), one of the commissioners of the House of Lords. He authored one of the many poems welcoming the monarch back to his kingdom,

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THE PEOPLE OF A WEEK: THOMAS FULLER, D.D. APANEGYRICK TO HIS MAJESTY ON HIS HAPPY RETURN.

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August 2: The restored monarch Charles II instructed Cambridge University to award the Reverend Thomas Fuller its degree of Doctor of Divinity. The Reverend would resume his lectures at the Savoy, an edifice of the Church of England on the Thames in the toney Westminster district of London.

1661

The Reverend Thomas Fuller, D.D.’s final preferment was that of Chaplain Extraordinary to King Charles II.

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May 12: When Samuel Pepys heard the Reverend Thomas Fuller, D.D. preach on a text from the book of Job at the Savoy, he jotted in his journal that he rather preferred this cleric’s conversation or his books to his sermons.

THIS DAY IN PEPYS’S DIARY John Evelyn’s diary entry for this day was in part as follows: John Evelyn’s Diary

Dr. Phil: King preached at the Abby on 16. Jo: 7: Afternoone Dr. Hill of Christ-Chur[c]h Oxon:

Summer: The Reverend Thomas Fuller, D.D. visited the western region of England in connexion with the business of his prebend, which had been restored to him.

August 12, Sunday: While preaching at the Savoy, the Reverend Thomas Fuller, D.D. collapsed with typhus fever.

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August 16: Thomas Fuller died of typhus at his new lodgings in Covent Garden.

The body would be interred in Cranford church (now near Heathrow Airport), where a mural tablet would afterwards be set up on the north side of the chancel with an epitaph to the effect that since he had endeavored (such as in THE WORTHIES) to provide immortality to others, he himself was worthy of it. Hic jacet Thomas Fuller, é collegio Sydneiano in academiâ Cantabrigienfe S.S.T.D. hujus ecclefiæ rector; ingenii acumine, memoriæ felicitate, morum probitate, omnigenâ doctrinâ, (hiftoriâ prævertim,) uti varia ejus fummâ æquanimitate compofita teftantur, celeberrimus. Qui dum viros Angliæ illustres opere posthumo immortalitatem confecrare meditatus eft, ipfe immortalitatem eft confecutus, Aug. 15, 1661.

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1662

Posthumous publication of the Reverend Thomas Fuller’s THE HISTORY OF THE WORTHIES OF ENGLAND as edited by his son the Reverend John Fuller.

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A WEEK: If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read. As Fuller said, commenting on the zeal of Camden, “A broken urn is a whole evidence; or an old gate still surviving out of which the city is run out.” When Solon endeavored to prove that Salamis had formerly belonged to the Athenians, and not to the Megareans, he caused the tombs to be opened, and showed that the inhabitants of Salamis turned the faces of their dead to the same side with the Athenians, but the Megareans to the opposite side. There they were to be interrogated.

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A WEEK: What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy, — for there must be subordination, — but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare. Some aspire to excellence in the subordinate department, and may God speed them. What Fuller says of masters of colleges is universally applicable, that “a little alloy of dulness in a master of a college makes him fitter to manage secular affairs.” “He that wants faith, and apprehends a grief Because he wants it, hath a true belief; And he that grieves because his grief’s so small, Has a true grief, and the best Faith of all.” Or be encouraged by this other poet’s strain, — “By them went Fido marshal of the field: Weak was his mother when she gave him day; And he at first a sick and weakly child, As e’er with tears welcomed the sunny ray; Yet when more years afford more growth and might, A champion stout he was, and puissant knight, As ever came in field, or shone in armor bright. “Mountains he flings in seas with mighty hand; Stops and turns back the sun’s impetuous course; Nature breaks Nature’s laws at his command; No force of Hell or Heaven withstands his force; Events to come yet many ages hence, He present makes, by wondrous prescience; Proving the senses blind by being blind to sense.”

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1831

Thomas Fuller’s THE HOLY AND PROFANE STATES. WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR AND HIS WRITINGS (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Hilliard and Brown). This volume would be in the personal library of Waldo Emerson, and Henry Thoreau would refer to it in his journal and at several points in A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS:

CONVERSATION April 15, 1838. Thomas Fuller relates that “in Merionethshire, in Wales, there are high mountains, whose hanging tops come so close together that shepherds on the tops of several hills may audibly talk together, yet will it be a day’s journey for their bodies to meet, so vast is the hollowness of the valleys betwixt them.” As much may be said in a moral sense of our intercourse in the plains, for, though we may audibly converse together, yet is there so vast a gulf of hollowness between that we are actually many days’ journey from a veritable communication.

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A WEEK: If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read. As Fuller said, commenting on the zeal of Camden, “A broken urn is a whole evidence; or an old gate still surviving out of which the city is run out.” When Solon endeavored to prove that Salamis had formerly belonged to the Athenians, and not to the Megareans, he caused the tombs to be opened, and showed that the inhabitants of Salamis turned the faces of their dead to the same side with the Athenians, but the Megareans to the opposite side. There they were to be interrogated.

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1838

CONVERSATION April 15. Thomas Fuller relates that “in Merionethshire, in Wales, there are high mountains, whose hanging tops come so close together that shepherds on the tops of several hills may audibly talk together, yet will it be a day’s journey for their bodies to meet, so vast is the hollowness of the valleys betwixt them.” As much may be said in a moral sense of our intercourse in the plains, for, though we may audibly converse together, yet is there so vast a gulf of hollowness between that we are actually many days’ journey from a veritable communication.

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1840

At Trinity College, Cambridge, George Waddington received the DD degree.

The Reverend Thomas Fuller, D.D.’s THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE: FROM THE CONQUEST TO THE YEAR 1634 (Cambridge UP).

Republication of THE HISTORY OF THE WORTHIES OF ENGLAND. HISTORY OF THE WORTHIES HISTORY OF THE WORTHIES HISTORY OF THE WORTHIES

The three volumes as republished contained in addition “brief notices of the most celebrated worthies of England who have flourished since the time of Fuller, with explanatory notes and copious indexes by P. Austin Nuttall, LL.D.” (London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside).

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A WEEK: If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read. As Fuller said, commenting on the zeal of Camden, “A broken urn is a whole evidence; or an old gate still surviving out of which the city is run out.” When Solon endeavored to prove that Salamis had formerly belonged to the Athenians, and not to the Megareans, he caused the tombs to be opened, and showed that the inhabitants of Salamis turned the faces of their dead to the same side with the Athenians, but the Megareans to the opposite side. There they were to be interrogated.

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A WEEK: What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy, — for there must be subordination, — but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare. Some aspire to excellence in the subordinate department, and may God speed them. What Fuller says of masters of colleges is universally applicable, that “a little alloy of dulness in a master of a college makes him fitter to manage secular affairs.” “He that wants faith, and apprehends a grief Because he wants it, hath a true belief; And he that grieves because his grief’s so small, Has a true grief, and the best Faith of all.” Or be encouraged by this other poet’s strain, — “By them went Fido marshal of the field: Weak was his mother when she gave him day; And he at first a sick and weakly child, As e’er with tears welcomed the sunny ray; Yet when more years afford more growth and might, A champion stout he was, and puissant knight, As ever came in field, or shone in armor bright. “Mountains he flings in seas with mighty hand; Stops and turns back the sun’s impetuous course; Nature breaks Nature’s laws at his command; No force of Hell or Heaven withstands his force; Events to come yet many ages hence, He present makes, by wondrous prescience; Proving the senses blind by being blind to sense.”

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Waldo Emerson, in EXCURSIONS, in a biographical sketch, applied to Henry Thoreau, what the Reverend Thomas Fuller, D.D. had written of the Reverend Charles Butler the famous English apiologist and phonetic spelling reformer (1560-1647), that “either he had told the bees things or the bees had told him”: His determination on Natural History was organic. He confessed that he sometimes felt like a hound or a panther, and, if born among Indians, would have been a fell hunter. But, restrained by his Massachusetts culture he played out the game in this mild form of botany and ichthyology. His intimacy with animals suggested what Thomas Fuller records of Butler the apiologist, that “either he had told the bees things or the bees had told him.” Snakes coiled round his leg; the fishes swam into his hand, and he took them out of the water; he pulled the woodchuck out of its hole by the tail, and took the foxes under his protection from the hunters. Our naturalist had perfect magnanimity; he had no secrets; he would carry you to the heron’s haunt, or even to his most prized botanical swamp, —possibly knowing that you could never find it again, yet willing to take his risks.

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This stuff presumably looks to you as if it were generated by a human. Such is not the case. Instead, upon someone’s request we have pulled it out of the hat of a pirate that has grown out of the shoulder of our pet parrot “Laura” (depicted above). What these chronological lists are: they are research reports compiled by ARRGH algorithms out of a database of data modules which we term the Kouroo Contexture. This is data mining. To respond to such a request for information, we merely push a button.

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deficiencies and so we need to go back into the data modules stored in the contexture and do a minor amount of tweaking, and then we need to punch that button again and do a recompile of the chronology — but there is nothing here that remotely resembles the ordinary “writerly” process which you know and love. As the contents of this originating contexture improve, and as the programming improves, and as funding becomes available (to date no funding whatever has been needed in the creation of this facility, the entire operation being run out of pocket change) we expect a diminished need to do such tweaking and recompiling, and we fully expect to achieve a simulation of a generous and untiring robotic research librarian. Onward and upward in this brave new world.

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