...rejoinder that (as Thomas Fuller said of John Smith more than a century before Ethan Allen took up his pen) "It soundeth much to the diminution of his deeds that...alone is the herald to publish and proclaim them." * Whatever else may be said of Allen's account of himself, this at least is clear: that while in his...

...confessions was to confess oneself a nobody. As Thomas Fuller said of an autobiographical writer in 1662, "It soundeth much to the diminution of his deeds,...alone is the herald to publish and proclaim them" [1.276]. At the same time, the public press offered an instrument of power and a medium for the distribution...

...sceptical response are great: Thomas Fuller objected to Captain John Smith's account of his own adventures, "It soundeth much to the diminution of his deeds that he alone is the herald to publish and proclaim them."6 He was by no means the first to do so. Still, disbelief is preferable to oblivion. With the...

...prose and the pictures, both in his own book; and it goundeth much to the diminution of his deeds l hat he alone is the herald to publish and proclaim them."...it would be easy to argue indefinitely in regard to Smith'!" general character. This must indeed be done by the first historian who attempts again to deal...

...seven years buried. In the earliest printed biography of Smith, Thomas Fuller, a contemporary, says : "It soundeth much to the diminution of his deeds,...alone is the herald to publish and proclaim them." The records written by Vol. XV — 18. contemporaries contain no allusion to such service by Pocahontas,...

...Yet we have two witnesses to attest them — the prose [the text] and the pictures — both in his own book, and it soundeth much to the diminution of his deeds, that he alone it the heravld to publish, and proclaim them." The italics are mine. I shall now proceed to lay * '...