Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
Moncure D. Conway
Born: March 17, 1832
Died: November 5, 1907 (aged 75)
Bio: Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist as well as at various times a Methodist, Unitarian and Freethought minister.
Known for:
- Demonology and devil-lore (1879)
- Solomon And Solomonic Literature (1899)
- Emerson at home and abroad (1882)
- Travels in South Kensington (1882)
- My pilgrimage to the wise men of the East (1906)