Few passages of history are more striking than those which record the efforts of the earlier French Jesuits to convert the Indians.Quote by Francis Parkman about history
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has...Quote by Walter Pater about beauty, literary critic, common sense, sense, wisdom, art, magic, love