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must ly mt more than a century old. The church 

 ontauiM the tombs of many of tin- bishops ; and 

 the place also has inemorieH of Rtxlley, Florin. 

 n. Hallam, Crotch, and Albert Smith. 



Fllluviltilis (4I>S .-,:<:{), bishop of Huspe in 

 Numiilia, \\a- banished to Sardinia, and there 

 wrote against Arians and Pelagians. 



Fuller* AMUM \v. an eminent Baptist theo- 

 logian and controversialist, was born, the son of a 

 small farmer, at Wieken, < 'amliridgeshire, Febru- 

 ary >, I7~*. He had his education at Sohain free 

 school, but at an early age had to turn to farm- 

 work. In his seventeenth year he became a mem 

 I >er of a Baptist church at Soham, and soon began 

 to speak with such acceptance that in 1775 he was 

 rlios.Mi pastor of a congregation there. His small 

 stipend of 21 per annum he endeavoured to in- 

 crease by keeping, first a small shop, and then a 

 school. In 1782 he removed to a pastorate at 

 Kettering, in Northamptonshire. His treatise, The 

 Gospel worthy of all Adaptation (1784), involved 

 him in a warm controversy with the ultra-Calvin- 

 ists, but showed him already a theologian of rare 

 sagacity and insight, and still rarer fearlessness 

 and sincerity. On the formation in 1792 of the 

 Baptist Missionary Society by Dr Carey and others, 

 lie was appointed its secretary, and he devoted 

 henceforward the whole energies of his life to its 

 affairs. His controversial treatise, The Calvinistic 

 and Socinian Systems examined and compared as to 

 their Moral Tendency (1793), was attacked by Dr 

 Toulmin and Mr Kentish ; but Fuller replied vigor- 

 ously in his Socinianism Indefensible ( 1797 ). Other 

 works are The Gospel its own Witness (1797), an 

 on-Iaught on Deism, and Expository Discourse on 

 the Hook of Genesis (1806), besides a multitude of 

 single sermons and pamphlets. He died May 7, 

 1815. His complete works were collected in 1831, 

 and re-issued in 1845 with a memoir by his son. 



Fuller* GEORGE, an American artist, was born 

 in Deer field, Massachusetts, in 1822. As early as 

 1857 his work attracted attention, and during the 

 last years of his life his pictures were warmly 

 admired by many for their richness of tone and 

 peculiar handling, though they never appealed to 

 the popular taste. He died 21st March 1884. An 

 exhibition of his paintings was held in Boston in 

 that year, and a costly memorial work on his life 

 and genius was published there in 1887. 



Fuller, SARAH MARGARKT, MARCHIONESS 

 OSSOLI, author, was born at Cambridgeport, 

 Massachusetts, May 23, 1810. She received much 

 of her early education from her father, Timothy 

 Fuller, a hard-working lawyer and congressman, 

 after whose death (1835), intestate and insolvent, 

 she assisted her family by school and private teach- 

 ing. In Boston the leaders of the transcendental 

 movement were her intimate friends ; here she 

 edited The Dial, translated from the German, and 

 wrote Summer on the Lakes (1843). In 1844 she 

 published Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and 

 in the same year she proceeded to New York, on 

 the invitation of Horace Greeley, then editor of 

 the Tribune, and contributed to that journal a 

 series of miscellaneous articles, which afterwards 

 appeared in a collected form as Papers on Litera- 

 /"/- und Art ( 1846). In 1846 she went to Europe, 

 where she made the acquaintance of many eminent 

 people ; and in 1847, at Rome, she met the Marquis 

 Ossoli, to whom she was married in December of 

 that year. She entered with enthusiasm into the 

 struggle for Italian independence. In 1849, during 

 the siege of Rome, she took the charge of a 

 hospital ; and on the capture of the city by the 

 French she and her husband, after a period of 

 hiding in the Abruz/i, and a few months at 

 Florence, sailed with their infant from Leghorn 



for America, May 17, 1850. The venae! wax driven 

 on the shoi.- of Fire Island, near New York, by a 

 violent gale in the early morning of July 16 ; the 

 child's I >oily wax found on the beach, but nothing 

 was ever seen afterwards of Margaret Fuller or her 

 husband. Her Autobiography, with memoira by 

 Emerson, Clarke, and ('banning, appeared in 1K.V2 

 ( new ed. I8S4) ; there are also lives by Julia Ward 

 Howe ( 1883) and T. W. Higginson ('Boston, 1884, 

 ' American Men of Letters' series). 



Fuller, THOMAS, divine, historian, and wit, was 

 born in 1608 at AldwinkleSt Peter's, Northampton 

 shire, elder son of the painful preacher, its rector and 

 prebendary of Sarum. and of nis wife, Judith Dave- 

 nan i. At his baptism (June 19) his godfathers 

 were his two uncles, Dr Davenant, president of 

 Queens' College, Cambridge, and DrTownson, loth 

 of whom became in succession bishops of Salisburv. 

 The boy early showed striking promise, and was in 

 1621 entered at Queens' College, Cambridge, where 

 he graduated B.A. in 1625, and M.A. in due course 

 three years later. Being unaccountably passed over 

 in an election of fellows of his college, fie was trans- 

 ferred in 1628 to Sidney Sussex College, and in 1630 

 received from Corpus Christi College the curacy of 

 St Benet's, where lie preached those Lectures on the 

 Book of Job which lie published in 1654. Next 

 year his uncle gave him a prebend in Salisbury, in 

 1634 he was appointed to the rectory of Broad- 

 winsor in Dorsetshire, and in 1635 he proceeded 

 B.D. Already in 1631 he had published his first 

 work, an ingenious but indifferent poem of 124 

 seven-lined stanzas, in three parts, entitled David's 

 Heinous Sin, Hearty Repentance, and Heavy Punish 

 ment ; and here he fulfilled faithfully the duties of 

 a parish priest, married happily, and compiled his 

 first ambitious work, the characteristically bright, 

 vigorous, and quaint History of the Holy H "/ 

 (1639), embracing the story of the Crusades, as 

 well as The Holy and Prophane States (1642), a 

 unique collection of essays and characters, full of 

 shrewdness, wisdom, and kindliness, lightened up 

 on every page by the most unexpected humour, and 

 by marvellous felicity of illustration. In 1640 Fuller 

 sat as proctor for Bristol in the Convocation of 

 Canterbury, and was one of the select committee 

 appointed to draw up canons for the better govern- 

 ment of the church. In the same year he published 

 his Joseph's parti-coloured Coat, a comment on 1 Cor. 

 xi. 18-30, with eight sermons full of the true Fuller 

 flavour. Soon after he removed to London to become 

 an exceedingly popular lecturer at the chapel of St 

 Mary Savoy. In the exercise of his function he 

 strove to allay the bitterness of party-feeling, but 

 when the inevitable war broke out he adhered with 

 fearless firmness to the royal cause, and shared in 

 its reverses. Yet his characteristic moderation of 

 tone offended the more hot- headed among the royal- 

 ists, who misread his temperance into lukewarmness. 

 He saw active service as chaplain to Hopton's. men, 

 and printed at Exeter in 1645 for their encourage- 

 ment his Good '1 ho tights in Bad Times, a manual of 

 fervid and devout snort prayers and meditations, 

 which was followed in 1647 by a second, Bt ti> / 

 Thoughts in Worse Times, and by his twenty -one 

 short dialogues, The Cause and Cure of a Wounded 

 Cuiisrience. In the same year he began again to 

 preach, at St Clement's, fiastcheap, but was soon 

 suspended. His enforced leisure he {lave with in- 

 domitable industry to study and compilation, being 

 helped the while by patrons who knew his merit. 

 One of the kindest of these was the Earl of 

 Carlisle, who made him his chaplain, and presented 

 him to the curacy of Waltham Abbey, which Fuller 

 managed to keep throughout the troubles by pass- 

 ing the ordeal of Cromwell's Trvers. In 1650 he 

 published his great survey of the lloly Land, full of 

 maps and engravings, A Pisyah -sight of Palestine, 



