FULGENTIU8 FERRANDUS. 



FULLER, SARAH MARGARET. 



Autiqr.orum ad Chalcidioum Grammaticum,' which in usually printed 

 with the work* of Nonius Maroellui. (Fabricii, BMtolkeca latino, 

 lib. iL. o. 2.) 



FULGEXTirS FEUUANDUS, who U frequently confounded with 

 Fulgentiua. bishop of Ruspina, lived in tho beginning of tlie CtU 

 c utury. He was a disciple of the Bithop of Ruspina, whoM life he 

 wrote. He was also Uie author of an ' Abridgment of tho Canon*,' 

 and finiihed a treatUo addressed to Reginus, on which hii muter was 

 engaged at the time of hii death. 



FCLLKR, KEY. ANDREW, born February 6, 1754, was the son 

 of a small farmer at Wicken, iu Cambridgeshire ; but received his 

 Terr limited education chiefly at Sohain, whither bis father, who was 

 of dissenting principle*, removed while he was yet young. In 177 U 

 he became a member of the Baptist church at Soham, where, in the 

 absence of a regular mini.- tor, he began to preach occasionally at a 

 very early age. Early iu 17"."', his ministrations having proved very 

 acceptable, be was regularly ordained pastor of the church of which 

 he had for some time taken the charge at the request of his fellow- 

 members; and in 1782 he accepted an invitation to remove to a 

 Baptist church at Kettering, in Northamptonshire, over which ho 

 presided until his death, which occurred on the 7th of May 1815. 



Fuller took an active part iu the formation, in 1792, of the Baptist 

 Mi-siouary Society, of which he was secretary until his death; and 

 he travelled extensively in England, Scotland, and Ireland to preach 

 in behalf of this institution, the interests of which he promoted with 

 untiring leal. His theological works are numerous and highly prized 

 by the nonconformists ; though many of them are small, and relate to 

 controversial subjects, often of temporary interest His first appear- 

 ance in print was in 1784, when he published a sermon on 'The 

 Nature and Importance of Walking by Faith,' shortly after which he 

 printed a treatise, which was written in 1781, entitled 'The Go-pel 

 worthy of all acceptation ; or the duty of all sinners to believe in 

 Jesus Christ,' a work which, from its alleged tendency to Arminun- 

 iim, involved him in a warm controversy with the ultra-Calvinists. 

 This work has been, like several of his other more important writings, 

 repeatedly reprinted. Another important controversy was raised by 

 the juUicition, in 1798, of the first edition of his 'Calvinistic and 

 Socinian s- stems examined and compared, as to their moral tendency.' 

 The anti Socinian views promulgated in this work were attacked by 

 Dr. Joshua Toulmiu in ' The Practical Efficacy of the Unitarian 

 Doctrine considered,' and by Mr. Kentinh, to whom he replied in 

 1797 in hi* ' Soeinianism Indefensible., on the ground of its moral 

 tendency.' Fuller engaged iu the Deistic.il controversy by the pub- 

 lication, in I.- 00, of Tue Gospel its own Witness; or the holy and 

 divine harmony of the Christian Religion, contrasted with the 

 immorality and absurdity of Deism.' In 1802 ho collected into a 

 small voluuiv a series of 'Letters {o Mr. Vi.ilcr, on the doctrine of 

 Universal Salvation,' which had originally appeared in the ' Evangelical 

 Magazine,' and in 1810 ho entered upon another theological con- 

 troversy by publishing his 'Strictures on Sandemanianism.' About 

 1806 he wrote, in answer to numerous attacks by the enemies of 

 Christian missions, his 'Apology for the late Christian Missions in 

 India.' Among the leM controversial works of Fuller were many 

 single tenuous -and religious tracts, some of which are yet in high 

 esteem, and the following larger works: 'Memoirs of the Rev. 

 Samuel 1'earoe, of Birmingham,' 1800; 'The Backslider; or an 

 inquiry into the nature, symptoms, and effects of Religious Declension, 

 with the means of recovery,' 1801 ; ' Expository Discourses on the 

 Book of Genesis,' 2 vol., 1800; 'Dialogues, Letters, and Essays on 

 various snbj-ct*,' 1806; a volume of 'Sermons on various subjects,' 

 1814; and 'Expository Discourses on the Apocalyp-e,' 181S, the 

 Utter being prepared for publication just before, but not issued till 

 after his death. 



Fuller's works have been repeatedly reprinted in America as well 

 si in this country, and the college of New Jersey, about tho year 

 1798, conferred upon him the degree of D.I)., which however he 

 declined to use. His ' Complete Works ' were collected and published 

 in several volumes in 1831, and reprinted in one very thick volume, 

 with a new memoir by bis son, Andrew Qunton Fuller, in 1845. 



(Ntmoirt of tktRet. Andrtv Fuller, by J. Kyland, D.D., 1816 ; Rev. 

 J. W. Morris, 1836; and A. O. Fuller, 1815.) 



FULLER, SARAH MARGARET, MARCHIONESS OSSOLT, v 

 born at Cambridge-Port, Ua-s.icku.c-U*, United States of North America, 

 May 83, 1810. Her father, a solicitor and a member of the Congress, 

 perceiving her early aptitude, had her so highly educated that he 

 was accustomed to speak of her while quite a chill m "knowing 

 more Greek and Latin than half the professors," while she hereell 

 says that she had nearly forgotten her native tongue from constantly 

 reading oth- r language*. The consequence was that when she grew 

 to womanhood the bad an overwrought nervous system, was a 

 NMMBtalilt, very near-sighted, and withiil what is called a strong- 

 minded, loud voiced, exorwivrly dogmatic, and unquestionably clever, 

 as well a* cultivated person. Thu sudden death of her father in 

 September 1&8, threw upon her domestic duties and obligations to 

 which she resolutely an 1 without affectation addressed herself. Slie 

 became a teacher at Boston of Latin, French, German, and Italian 

 then ' Lady hu|*rior ' of a school at Providence, Rhode Island, after 

 wird noitrd herself for awhile to that singular social or Fourieristic 



Society the ' Brook Farm Community,' and eventually took up her 

 n as a means of support. She had already become well-known as 

 , writer in the periodicals when (he in 1839 published a transla- 

 tion of ' Kckermauu's Conversations with Goethe.' Having acquired 

 ;reat celebrity in the literary circles of Boston, especially among 

 he transcondenUlisU of that learned city, for her conversational 

 alents as well as her critical acumen, it wni proposed to turn 

 ter powers that way to account, by forming under her guidance 

 conversational classes ' of the ladies of Boston. The scheme, odd at 

 t may seam, met with acceptance. Five-and-twenty "of the most 

 agreeable and intelligent women to be found in Boston and in its 

 neighbourhood" mot at stated season* to converse the 'conversa- 

 tion' being of course mainly ou the side of the learned prei 

 on such subjects as " the genealogy of heaven and earth ; the will 

 Jupiter) ; the celestial inspiration of genius, perception, and trans- 

 nission of divine law (Apollo)," and such other recondite themes aa 

 might be conveyed under the symbols of Venus, Bacchus Cupid 

 and Psyche, and so forth ; with poetry, music, the pictorial arts, the 

 ' thought tbat lies at the bottom of the different dances," and < 

 more sublunary topics. 



When Mr. Euierson started his ' Dial ' in 1840, Miss Fuller was one 

 of the most prominent of his band of philosophical contributors; 

 aud she wrote for it many very clever articles on the 'Fine Arts,' &c., 

 'jme of which wero subsequently republished in her volume of 

 Papers.' She alo published at Boston in 1844, under th < title of 

 Summer on the Lakes,' an account of a summer tour. Ou the dis- 

 continuance of the ' Dial ' she removed to New York, and was 

 ustalled directress of the literary department of the ' New York 

 Tribune.' Here sbe lit her studies turn more directly on political 

 and social philosophy ; and she gave utterance to her impressions of 

 the wrongs of her sex in ' Woman in the Nineteenth Century,' a work 

 which excited some attention iu England as well as in America. She 

 also published here the collection of her ' Papers on Literature and 

 Art,' already referred to : both of these works were we believo 

 reprinted in London. 



Iu the spring of 1846 she put iu execution a cherished *chemo of 

 a prolonged European tour. She first visited England, whsrc cbe stayed 

 some time, and obtained introductions to many of tho literary nota- 

 bilities, whom she describes and criticises in her letters with a moat 

 amusing air of superiority. In Paris she also remained for some time 

 and formed the acquaintance of Madame Dudevant, $c. But Italy 

 was the place she had most desired to visit, aud thither she next 

 proceeded little dreaming to what a strange conclusion all her 

 theories of woman's rights and claims and missions would there be 

 brought For a brief space she revelled in the enjoyment of the 

 scenery, the climate, and the boundless treasures of art in that sunny 

 region ; and it must be added that a portion of her time was occupied 

 in rendering herself conspicuous by her open and resolute, though 

 somewhat imprudent avowal of extreme democratic opinuns, and 

 intercourse with persons obnoxious to the authorities on account of 

 their suspected liberalism, liut at length nbe became involved iu an 

 affair of a very different though not less exciting nature. She m ,'t 

 by accident at vespers, in St. Peter's, Rome, while separated from 

 her friends by the crowd, a young Italian gentleman ; ha be.h iv.- 1 

 with a courtesy that charmed her; an intimacy ensued, and, though 

 he was many years her junior, so utterly uneducated that he had 

 scarce ever looked into a book, and without any kind of intellectual 

 pretensions, the strong-minded worshipper of intellect with a very 

 little wooing gave him her hand. But the young Marquis Oesoli, 

 though of a noble family, had a very small patrimony, and tbat was 

 in the hands of trustees. Moreover his family wero devoted Roman 

 Catholics, and his older brothers held high appointments under the 

 papal government ; they would of course b j bitterly incensed at his 

 marrying a lady not of that faith, and especially one who was au 

 avowed liberal. He therefore urged tbat the marriage should be 

 strictly concealed : and to this she submitted. They were married iu 

 December 1SJ7, aud Madame Oasoli remained in Rome, ostensibly 

 living alone as plain Margaret Fuller; indeed it was not till more 

 than a year after the birth of a son that even her own mother was 

 informed of the marriage. Tho sudden ascendancy of liberalism iu 

 Rome however altered matters. Miss Fuller had in London met 

 Mazzini, and undertaken, as it would seem, to bear communications 

 from him to various Italian liberals; and sbe had converted her 

 husband to her own political creed. When the revolutiou broke out 

 her husband tlir w himself heartily iuto the movement; aud she 

 shrank from none of the duties which her position ami h< r opinions 

 seemed to have devolved upon her. During the siege of Rome sha 

 was occupied as a nurse, having charge of oae of the hospitals opeued 

 by the Roman Commission for the succour of the wounded, and 

 acted with a noble disregard of toil or danger, and with much judg- 

 ment as well as the greatest kindness in her self-imposed task. The 

 fall of the republic compelled her to leave Rome ; and with her 

 husband and her child she, after *taying the winter at Florence, 

 ctubarke 1 at Leghorn in May ISTiO, ou board the Elizabeth, for 

 America. From the first the voyage was uupropitious ; the captain 

 died soon after the ship sailed ; the weather was throughout stor.uy ; 

 and though the vess*! reached tho American coast, it was only to b > 

 wrecked there, having struck on Fire Island Beach, Long Island, 



