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816 . At length, continues South, the Church-History came forth with its 166 dedications to wealthy and friends; and with this huge  under one arm, and his  (said to be little of stature) on the other, he ran up and down the  of, seeking at the s of his  invitations to , to be repaid by his dull  at. This, although exaggerated, throws light upon the social qualities of Fuller, who had many kind friends amongst the. His last and best was the  of, , whose  he was, and who gave him  ,. To this Fuller's reply to, called The Appeal of Injured Innocence, , was inscribed. This remarkable and instructive embraces, as its editor, MrJames Nichols, has remarked, &ldquo;almost every topic within the range of  disquisition, from the most sublime  of the , and the great antiquity of the  and  , down to The Tale of a Tub, and criticisms on Shakespeare's perversion of the character of .&rdquo; At the end of the Appeal is an elegant  &ldquo;to my loving friend ,&rdquo; conceived in the admirable  spirit which characterized all Fuller's dealings with controversialists. &ldquo;Why should '&rdquo; he asked, &ldquo;fall out with ', both being to the ? I assure you, sir, whatever you conceive to the contrary, I am cordial to the cause of the, and my hoary will go down to the  in sorrow for her sufferings.&rdquo; The only other important  issued by Fuller in his lifetime were connected with the. The revived, , proposed an  of  to the , and the  of  and. The matter was much d; and in an able  in , which went into a third edition, called An Alarum to the Counties of England and Wales, Fuller discussed the proposal. His arguments tended to swell the cry for a free and full ,—free from force, as he expressed it, as well as from s or previous engagements. In anticipation of the meeting of the new, 25th , and as if foreseeing the unwise attitude of those in power in relation to the reaction, Fuller put forth his Mixt Contemplations in Better Times, , dedicated to. It tendered advice in the spirit of its, &ldquo;Let your moderation be known to all men: the is at hand.&rdquo; There is good reason to suppose that Fuller was at  immediately before the , in the retinue of , one of the ers of the , whose last service to his friend was to interest himself in obtaining him a. A Panegyrick to His Majesty on his Happy Return was the last of Fuller's efforts. On 2d, by , he was admitted  at , as a scholar of integrity and good , who had been hindered in the due way of proceeding to his. His former preferments were restored to him. At the  heard him ; but he preferred his conversation or his  to his. Fuller's last promotion was that of in extraordinary to  In the  of  he visited the west in connexion with the business of his, and upon his return he was seized with a kind of  called the &ldquo;new disease.&rdquo; On Sunday, 12th , while  a   at the , he was disabled from proceeding; and at the close of the  he was carried home in a  to his new lodgings in , where he expired, , 16th , aged 54. On the following 200 of his brethren attended his corpse to its, in the  of  , where   a. A tablet was afterwards set up on the north side of the  with an, which, though perhaps longer than Fuller’s essay on tombs might allow him to approve, contains a conceit worthy of his own , to the effect that while he was endeavouring (viz., in The Worthies) to give  to others, lie himself attained it. It is said that the thought of that unfinished work troubled him upon his death, and that he often incoherently called out to his attendants for and, as if to complete it. DrFuller was in stature somewhat tall, &ldquo;with a proportionable bigness to become it,&rdquo; and his gait was graceful. He was of a temperament, and had a ruddy countenance and light curled. Some of these features are pleasingly depicted in his portrait at. His personal character was admirable. The charm of his manners was felt by all, his deportment being &ldquo;according to the old guise.&rdquo; His disposition was genial, leading him to embrace goodness wherever he found it. To these fine qualities of mind he added prudence. &ldquo;By his particular temper and management,&rdquo; said the Echard, &ldquo;he weathered the  with more success than many other great men.&rdquo; He had many of the peculiarities of scholars. He was known as &ldquo;a perfect walking .&rdquo; The strength of his was ial, and some amusing anecdotes are connected with it. His writings were the product of a highly original, and their tone was excellent. He had a fertile and a happy faculty of illustration. His in the main was elegant, and more atic than that of Taylor or Browne. and atic sentences abound in his, embodying literally the of the many in the  of one. He was &ldquo;quaint,&rdquo; and something more. &ldquo;,&rdquo; said Coleridge, in a well-known eulogy, &ldquo; was the stuff and substance of Fuller’s. It was the, the base, the material which he worked in; and this very circumstance has defrauded him of his due praise for the practical  of the s, for the  and variety of the truths, into which he shaped the stuff. Fuller was incomparably the most sensible, the least prejudiced, great man of an age that boasted a of great men.&rdquo; This opinion was formed after the perusal of the Church-History. That work and The Worthies of England are unquestionably Fuller’s greatest efforts. They embody the collections of an entire life; and since they have been the delight and the solace of their readers, and the incentive which has directed or allured many  scholars into  and  studies. The Holy State has taken rank amongst the best of characters. Fuller’s works, according to Charles Lamb, were, in the, scarcely perused except by ; but since , mainly through the appreciative criticisms of Coleridge, Southey, Crossley, and others, they have received more general attention; and nearly the whole of his extant writings have been of. (undefined)  FULLER’S EARTH ( Walkererde, Terre à foulon, Argile smectique), so  from its use by  as an  of the  and  of, is an  hydrated silicate of , containing, according to one analysis,  53·0,  10,  9·75,  1·25,  ·5,  ·1,  24 per cent., and a trace of. It has a of l·7–2·4, and a shining streak; is unctuous to the ; is commonly greenish-brown or greenish-grey, sometimes bluish-grey, whitish, or red-brown in ; adheres but slightly to the ; becomes translucent in, and falls to ; and before the  gives a  ,  eventually to a white. Among the localities where fuller’s is found are  near  in,  in ,  in ,  in , and  in. Fuller’s or “Walker’s” is 