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
real humanity fields
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.
discipline soldier citizens
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.
ugly-things america pretentious
America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
eye political enemy
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.
religious age church
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.
sympathy party humanity
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.
father confederation
The father of confederation is deadlock.
two names canada
Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here.'
political village ottawa
Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.
personality partiality
Personality is lower than partiality.
life perpetual
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
beings both existence influences regard respecting themselves whatever
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.
great
That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.
faithful ground human novelist work
The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.