Goldwin Smith Quotes

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• Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
• The father of confederation is deadlock.
• 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…
• The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
• Above all nations is humanity,
• 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…
• Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
• 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,…
• 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 Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to…
• The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
• 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,…
• The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.
• Personality is lower than partiality.
• The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.
• 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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