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(@)|_ A WEEKLY JOURNAL 
Vol. V. No. 18 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1907. 28 Pages. 
DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE NORTH SHORE ||@) 
Three Cents. 
HOURS WITH LESS KNOWN WRITERS. 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
The history of English literature in the 
first half of the 17th century is advanced 
by the names of many gifted men, be- 
sides those who attained the highest rank 
among their fellows. Among them are 
Hales and Chillingworth, great contro- 
versialists, Richard Crashaw, “‘poet and 
saint,” Phineas Fletcher, the imitator of 
Spenser, and Thomas Fuller, the histor- 
ian and divine. 
Fuller was a son of a clergman of the 
same name, and was born in 1608. He 
entered Queen’s College, Cambridge, at 
the early age of twelve, became a preach- 
er in due time, acquiring great popularity, 
and after several promotions secured a 
lectureship in London; he became after 
the Restoration chaplain extraordinary to 
the King. 
Fuller must be counted a remarkable 
man even in age of remarkable men. He 
was a man of wide reading and acute 
powers of observation; his memory was 
prodigious, and he was not wanting in 
judgment in the use which he made of 
his multifarious gifs. He was an instruc- 
Sen. Jas. F. SHaw, of Manchester 
Who won his fight against the Boston ‘‘L’’ in 
the State House this week. 
tive and amusing writer, so interweaving 
anecdotes, quotations and serious and 
humorous remarks and reflections, as to 
constitute a most entertaining composite 
of original and borrowed sentiment. 
Among the chief of Fuller’s works, 
which are very numerous, are: 1. ‘‘His- 
tory of the Worthies of England,’ a 
strange mixture of topography, biography 
and popular antiquities. 2. ““The Holy 
and Profane State,” containing charac- 
ters in different departments of life, lives 
of eminent persons illustrating these 
characters, and general essays. 3. ‘“The 
History of the Holy War,”’ and °“The 
Church History of Britain.’’? 4. ““Good 
Thoughts in Bad Times.’’ 5. ““A Pis- 
gah Light of Palestine,’’ etc. Besides 
these he published a large number of oc- 
casional papers and sermons. — His writ- 
ings are marked by felicity of illustration 
and pithy and sententious sayings; they 
delight the reader often by their quaint 
and unexpected turns of thought, and 
their robust common sense. ‘Take these 
as examples of his miscellaneous aphor- 
isms: 
‘‘He must rise early, yea, not at all go 
to bed, who will have every one’s good 
word.’’ 
‘““He needs strong arms who is to 
swim against the stream.’’ 
““Know, next to religion, there is noth- 
ing accomplisheth a man more than 
learning. Learning in a lord “is ‘asa 
diamond in gold.’’ 
“It is the worst clandestine marriage 
when God is not invited to it.’’ 
The following is from his character of 
a “‘Good Schoolmaster:’’ 
“‘His genius inclines him with delight 
to his profession. God, of his goodness, 
hath fitted several men for several call- 
ings, that the necessity of church and 
state, in all conditions may be provided 
for. And thus God mouldeth some for 
a schoolmaster’s life, undertaking it with 
desire and delight, and discharging it 
with dexterity and happy success. 
He studieth his scholars’ natures as 
carefully as they their books; and ranks 
their dispositions into several forms. And 
GARD 
though it may seem difficult for him in a 
great school to descend to all particulars, 
yet experienced schoolmasters may quick- 
ly make a grammar of boys’ natures. 
He is able, diligent and methodical in 
his teaching; not leading them rather in 
a circle than forwards. He minces_ his 
precepts for children to swallow hanging 
clogs on the nimbliness of his own soul, 
that his scholars may go along with 
him.’’ 
+ He has these wise observations on the 
Good Wife:”’ 
“‘She commandeth her husband in any 
equal matter, by constant obeying him.”’ 
“Her clothes are rather comely than 
costly, and she makes plain cloth to be 
velvet by her handsome wearing it.’’ 
‘Her husband’s secrets she will not 
divulge; especially she is careful to con- 
ceal his infirmites.’’ 
“In her husband’s sickness she feels 
more grief than she shows.’’ 
Of the “‘Good Sea-Captain’’ he has 
this to say: 
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SAMUEL S. PEABODY 
Re-appointed Chief of Police of Manchester 
this week. 
