Goldwin Smith quotes
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“As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.”
-- Goldwin SmithSource : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
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“It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.”
-- Goldwin SmithSource : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
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“Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.”
-- Goldwin SmithSource : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
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“But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.”
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“The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.”
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“America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.”
-- Goldwin SmithSource : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
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“Personality is lower than partiality.”
-- Goldwin SmithSource : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
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“The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.”
-- Goldwin SmithSource : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, author by Hunter, Rose
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“There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.”
-- Goldwin SmithSource : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
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“Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.”
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“Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.”
-- Goldwin SmithSource : Goldwin Smith (1892). “Canada and the Canadian Question ...”
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“No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.”
-- Goldwin SmithSource : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
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“The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.”
-- Goldwin SmithSource : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
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“The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.”
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“Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.”
-- Goldwin SmithSource : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
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“We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.”
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“The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.”
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“Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.”
-- Goldwin SmithSource : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
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“Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.”
-- Goldwin SmithSource : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
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“There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.”
-- Goldwin SmithSource : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
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“Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.”
-- Goldwin SmithSource : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
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“The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.”
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“Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here.'”
-- Goldwin Smith
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