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Bits of Ore from Rich Mines Quaint Nuggets Fuller Hall Selden Herbert Walton Gathered by Eveline Warner Brainerd copyright 1900 THOMAS FULLER (1608-1661) JOSEPH HALL (1574-1656) JOHN SELDEN (1584-1654) GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1632) IZAAK WALTON (1593-1683) Thomas Fuller (1608 – 1661) was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worthies of England, published in 1662 after his death. He was a prolific author, and one of the first English writers able to live by his pen (and his many patrons). (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fuller ) Joseph Hall (1574 – 1656) was an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s. In church politics, he tended in fact to a middle way. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hall_(bishop) ) John Selden (1584 – 1654) was an English jurist and a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law. He was known as a polymath showing true intellectual depth and breadth; John Milton hailed Selden in 1644 as "the chief of learned men reputed in this land." (source: http

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