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Island, where she remained till 1839. From this year until 1844 she stayed at different places in the immediate neighbourhood of Boston, forming an intimate acquaintance with the colonists of See also:

BROOK

Brook See also:

FARM

Farm, and numbering among her closest See also:

friends R. W. See also:

Emerson, Nathaniel See also:

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL (1804-1864)

Hawthorne and W. H. See also:

CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY (1780–1842)

Channing. In 1839 she published a See also:

TRANSLATION

translation of See also:

ECKERMANN, JOHANN PETER (1792—1854)

Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe, which was followed in 1842 by a translation of the See also:

correspondence between Karoline von Gtinderode and Bettina von See also:

Arnim, entitled Gunderode. Aided by R.

W. Emerson and See also:

George See also:

Ripley, she in 1840 started The See also:

DIAL

Dial, a poetical and philosophical See also:

MAGAZINE

magazine representing the opinions and aims of the New See also:

England Transcendentalists. This See also:

journal she continued to edit for two years, and while in Boston she also See also:

con-ducted conversation classes for ladies in which philosophical and social subjects were discussed with a somewhat over-accentuated earnestness. These meetings may be regarded as perhaps the beginning of the See also:

MODERN

modern See also:

MOVEMENT

movement in behalf of See also:

WOMEN

women's rights. R. W. Emerson, who had met her as early as 1836, thus describes her See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance: " She was then twenty-six years old. She had a See also:

FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face and See also:

FRAME

frame that would indicate fulness and tenacity of See also:

LIFE

life. She was rather under the See also:

MIDDLE

middle height; her complexion was See also:

FAIR

fair, with strong fair See also:

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair. She was then, as always, carefully and becomingly dressed, and of ladylike self-See also:

possession. For the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest her appearance had nothing prepossessing. Her extreme plainness, a See also:

TRICK

trick of incessantly opening and shutting her eyelids, the nasal See also:

TONE, THEOBALD WOLFE (1763-1798)

tone of her See also:

VOICE (Fr. voix, from Lat. vox)

voice, all repelled; and I said to myself we shall never get far." On better acquaintance this unprepossessing exterior seemed, however, to melt away, and her inordinate self-esteem to be lost in the See also:

DEPTH

depth and universality of her sympathy.

She possessed an almost irresistible See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of winning the intellectual and See also:

MORAY

moray confidence of those with whom she came in contact, and " applied herself to her See also:

COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pages or district)

companion as the sponge applies itself to See also:

WATER

water." She obtained from each the best they had to give. It was indeed more as a conversationalist than as a writer that she earned the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of the Priestess of See also:

TRANSCENDENTALISM (Lat. trans, across, scandere, climb, whence transcendere, to pass a limit)

Transcendentalism. It was her intimate friends who admired her most. See also:

Smart and pungent though she is as a writer, the apparent originality of her views depends more on eccentricity than either intellectual depth or imaginative vigour. In 1844 she removed to New See also:

York at the See also:

DESIRE

desire of See also:

HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace See also:

Greeley to write See also:

LITERARY

literary See also:

criticism for The See also:

TRIBUNE (med. Lat. tribune, from classical Lat. tribunal)

Tribune, and In 1846 she publishes a selection from her articles on contemporary authors in See also:

EUROPE

Europe and See also:

AMERICA

America, under the title Papers on Literature and See also:

Art. The same year she paid a visit to Europe, passing some time in England and See also:

France, and finally taking up her See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence in See also:

Italy. There she was married in See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1847 to the See also:

MARQUIS

marquis Giovanni Angelo Ossoli, a friend of Mazzini. During 1848—1849 she was See also:

PRESENT

present with her See also:

HUSBAND

husband in See also:

Rome, and when the See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city was besieged she, at the See also:

REQUEST, LETTERS OF

request of Mazzini, took See also:

charge of one of the two hospitals while her husband fought on the walls. In May 185o, along with her husband and See also:

INFANT (in early forms enfaunt, enfant, through the Fr. enfant, from Lat. infans, in, not, and fans, the present participle of fari, to speak)

infant son, she embarked at See also:

LEGHORN (Ital. Livorno, Fr. Livourne)

Leghorn for America, but when they had all but reached their destination the See also:

VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel was wrecked on See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

Fire born on the 6th of See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1754, at Wicken in See also:

CAMBRIDGESHIRE

Cambridgeshire. In his boyhood and youth he worked on his father's farm. In his seventeenth year he became a member of the Baptist See also:

church at See also:

SOHAM

Soham, and his gifts as an exhorter met with so much approval that, in the See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring of 1775, he was called and ordained as pastor of that See also:

CONGREGATION (Lat. congregatio, a gathering together, from cum, with, grex, gregis, a flock, herd)

congregation. In 1782 he removed to Kettering in See also:

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

Northamptonshire, where he became friendly with some of the most eminent ministers of the See also:

DENOMINATION (Lat. denominare, to give a specific name to)

denomination.

Before leaving Soham he had written the substance of a See also:

TREATISE

treatise in which he had sought to counteract the prevailing Baptist hyper-Calvinism which, " admitting nothing spiritually See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good to be the See also:

DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty of the unregenerate, and nothing to be addressed to them in a way of exhortation excepting what related to See also:

EXTERNAL

external obedience," had See also:

long perplexed his own mind. This See also:

WORK

work he published, under the title The See also:

GOSPEL (O. Eng. godspel, i.e. good news, a translation of Lat. bona annuntiatio, or evangelium, Gr. evayyeXwv; cf. Goth. iu spillon, " to announce good news," Ulfilas' translation of the Greek, from iu, that which is good, and spellon to announce)

Gospel worthy of all Acceptation, soon after his See also:

settlement in Kettering; and although it immediately involved him in a somewhat See also:

BITTER, KARL THEODORE FRANCIS (1867– )

bitter controversy which lasted for nearly twenty years, it was ultimately successful in consider-ably modifying the views prevalent among English dissenters. In 1793 he published a treatise, The Calvinistic and Socinian systems examined and compared as to their moral tendency, in which he rebutted the See also:

ACCUSATION (Lat. accusatio, accusare, to challenge to a causa, a suit or trial at law)

accusation of antinomianism levelled by the Socinians against those who over-emphasized the doctrines of See also:

FREE

free See also:

grace. This work, along with another against See also:

DEISM (Lat. dens, god)

Deism, entitled The Gospel its own See also:

Witness, is regarded as the See also:

PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production on which his reputation as a theologian mainly rests. Fuller also published an admirable Memoir of the Rev. See also:

SAMUEL

Samuel See also:

PEARCE, CHARLES SPRAGUE (1851– )

Pearce, of See also:

BIRMINGHAM

Birmingham, and a See also:

VOLUME

volume of Expository Lectures in See also:

Genesis, besides a considerable number of smaller pieces, chiefly sermons and See also:

PAMPHLETS

pamphlets, which were issued in a collected See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form after his death. He was a See also:

man of forceful See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, more prominent on the See also:

PRACTICAL

practical See also:

side of See also:

religion than on the devotional, and accordingly not pre-eminently successful in his See also:

LOCAL

local See also:

MINISTRY

ministry. His great work was done in connexion with the Baptist Missionary Society, formed at Kettering in 1792, of which he was secretary until his death on the 7th of May 1815. Both See also:

PRINCETON

Princeton and Yale, U.S.A., conferred on him the degree of D. D., but he never used it. Several See also:

EDITIONS

editions of his collected See also:

WORKS

works have appeared, and a Memoir, principally compiled from his own papers, was published about a year after his decease by Dr See also:

RYLAND, WILLIAM WYNNE (1738-1783)

Ryland, his most intimate friend and coadjutor in the affairs of the Baptist See also:

MISSION

mission. There is also a See also:

BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography by the Rev.

J. W. See also:

Morris (1816); and his son prefixed a memoir to an edition of his See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief works in See also:

BOHN, HENRY GEORGE (1796-1884)

Bohn's See also:

Standard Library (1852).

End of Article: FULLER, ANDREW (1954-1815)

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