Goldwin Smith
Goldwin Smith
Goldwin Smithwas a British historian and journalist, active in the United Kingdom and Canada...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth13 August 1823
CountryCanada
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I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.
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Roman law in the same manner was a rule of expediency, rightly or wrongly conceived, with comparatively little tincture of religion.
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Of all the lines of division in Great Britain, the most important politically has been that which is least clearly traced by the hand of nature.
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The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.
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We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.
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The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.
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That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.
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Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs.
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If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
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It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.
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Closely approaching Scotland, the northern coast of Ireland in course of time invited Scotch immigration, which formed as it were a Presbyterian Pale.
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In the Great Charter there is a provision in favour of the Welsh, who were allied with the Barons in insurrection against the Crown.
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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.
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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.