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MEMOIRS

OF

MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI

VOL. I.

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  Only a learned and a manly soul
    I purposed her, that should with even powers
  The rock, the spindle, and the shears control
    Of Destiny, and spin her own free hours.

BEN JONSON.

  Però che ogni diletto nostro e doglia
  Sta in si e nò saper, voler, potere;
  Adunque quel sol può, che col dovere
  Ne trae la ragion fuor di sua soglia.

  Adunque tu, lettor di queste note,
  S' a te vuoi esser buono, e agli altri caro,
  Vogli sempre poter quel che tu debbi.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

BOSTON:PHILLIPS, SAMPSON AND COMPANY.MDCCCLVII.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851,

BY R.F. FULLER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District
of Massachusetts.

    Stereotyped by HOBART & ROBBINS;
    NEW ENGLAND TYPE AND STEREOTYPE
    FOUNDRY BOSTON.

TABLE OF CONTENTSFORVOLUME FIRST.

I. YOUTH. AUTOBIOGRAPHY PARENTS DEATH IN THE HOUSE OVERWORK THE WORLD OF BOOKS FIRST FRIEND SCHOOL-LIFE SELF-CULTURE

II. CAMBRIDGE, By J.F. Clarke
  FRIENDSHIP
  CONVERSATION.—SOCIAL INTERCOURSE
  STUDIES
  CHARACTER.—AIMS AND IDEAS OF LIFE

III. GROTON AND PROVIDENCE. LETTERS AND JOURNALS SAD WELCOME HOME OCCUPATIONS MISS MARTINEAU ILLNESS DEATH OF HER FATHER TRIAL BIRTH-DAY DEATH IN LIFE LITERATURE FAREWELL TO GROTON WINTER IN BOSTON PROVIDENCE SCHOOL EXPERIENCES PERSONS ART FANNY KEMBLE MAGNANIMITY SPIRITUAL LIFE FAREWELL TO SUMMER

IV. CONCORD, By R.W. Emerson
  ARCANA
  DÆMONOLOGY
  TEMPERAMENT
  SELF-ESTEEM
  BOOKS
  CRITICISM
  NATURE
  ART
  LETTERS
  FRIENDSHIP
  PROBLEMS OF LIFE
  WOMAN, OR ARTIST?
  HEROISM
  TRUTH
  ECSTASY
  CONVERSATION

V. BOSTON, By R.W. Emerson
CONVERSATIONS ON THE FINE ARTS

YOUTH.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

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"Aus Morgenduft gewebt und Sonnenklarheit
Der Dichtung Schleir aus der Hand der Wahrheit."

GOETHE.

"The million stars which tremble
O'er the deep mind of dauntless infancy."

TENNYSON.

  "Wie leicht ward er dahin gefragen,
     Was war dem Glücklichen zu schwer!
  Wie tanzte vor des Lebens Wagen
     Die luftige Begleitung her!
  Die Liebe mit dem süssen Lohne,
     Das Glück mit seinem gold'nen Kranz,
  Der Ruhm mit seiner Sternenkrone,
     Die Wahrheit in der Sonne Glanz."

SCHILLER

  What wert thou then? A child most infantine,
  Yet wandering far beyond that innocent age,
  In all but its sweet l

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