Goldwin Smith Quotes
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Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
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The father of confederation is deadlock.
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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…
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The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
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Above all nations is humanity,
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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…
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Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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.
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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,…
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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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Personality is lower than partiality.
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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.
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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…
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