| Mark A. Noll - 2002 - 356 páginas
...also provided specific instructions to Jesuit recruits concerning the life to which they were called: "Instead of being a great master and great Theologian...language will be your saint Thomas and your Aristotle; . . . You must have sincere affection for the Savages, — looking upon them as ransomed by the blood... | |
| Francis Xavier Talbot - 2002 - 476 páginas
...the Hurons. "Instead of being a great master and a great theologian as in France," began de Brébeuf, "you must reckon on being here a humble scholar; and...masters! — women, little children, and all the savages — exposed to their laughter. The Huron language will be your Saint Thomas and your Aristotle. Clever... | |
| Paul Perron - 2003 - 380 páginas
...des Barbares; ce sera beaucoup pour vous, quand vous commencerez a begayer au bout de quelque temps' (the Huron language will be your Saint Thomas and your Aristotle, and no matter how clever you happen to be, or how able you are to express yourself in front of learned... | |
| Philip Goff, Paul Harvey - 2004 - 404 páginas
...work and expense of missionary life dominate the French missionaries' reports. "Instead of being a master and great Theologian as in France, you must...all the Savages — and exposed to their laughter," a discouraged missionary wrote home in 1636. Yet the proselytizing zeal remained. He urged others to... | |
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