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
faithful ground human novelist work
The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.
dickens greater heard heaven purity thank
I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.
cannot mind permitted though
We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.
nature warlike
The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.
great
That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.
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.
life perpetual
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
clearly division great hand lines
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.
law manner rightly roman rule wrongly
Roman law in the same manner was a rule of expediency, rightly or wrongly conceived, with comparatively little tincture of religion.
closely coast course formed invited ireland northern scotch time
Closely approaching Scotland, the northern coast of Ireland in course of time invited Scotch immigration, which formed as it were a Presbyterian Pale.
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.
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.
race humanity looks
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.
jesus grace humanity
The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.