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Above all nations is humanity.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Humanity
Nations
Above
All Nations
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Personality is lower than partiality.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Partiality
Personality
Lower
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The father of confederation is deadlock.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Confederation
Father
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Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Government
Arms
Law
Rome
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That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Rome
Comparatively
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The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Romans
Warlike
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Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Canada
Doors
Might
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The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Faithful
Study
Ground
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The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Arrogance
Character
Commonplace
Corny
English
Joke
Insular
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Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Art
Art Is
Expression
Express
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Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Ottawa
Political
Royal
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If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Middle Ages
Perpetual
Life Your Effort
Ages
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Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here.'
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Aca
Names
Two
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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.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Jesus
Grace
Humanity
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We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Bear
Everything Else
Explain
Permitted
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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.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Humanity
Materials
Novelists
Observation
Real
Actual
Be Real
Gathered
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America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
America
Pretentious
Ugly Things
Ugliest
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Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Ancient
Excellence
Historical
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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.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Dickens
Heaven
Purity
Thank
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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.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Beauty
Architecture
Heart
Ignorant
Transcendent
Churches
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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 aesthetic interest.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Age
Aesthetic
Artist
Middle
Middle Ages
Moral
Students
Ages
Student
Fail
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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 over them.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Humanity
Race
Triumph
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In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Genesis
Strive
Youth
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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.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Barriers
England
Kingdoms
Scotland
Sufficient
Border
Extension
Prevent
Saxon
Settlements
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Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Civilization
Conquest
England
India
Real
Servant
Attempt
No Question
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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, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Console
Deeper
London
Poetic
Inwardly
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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.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Sympathy
Historian
Humanity
Partiality
Party
Prejudice
Unbounded
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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 and country, a great and wealthy city.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Kings
Conquest
Country
Evident
Rome
Wealthy
Time Great City
Commenced
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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.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Age
Architecture
Church
Emotion
Gothic
Honestly
Middle Ages
Moved
Religious
Ages
Deeply
Slightest
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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.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Black
Country
England
Famine
Machines
Manufacturing
Multitudes
Would Be
Uglier
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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 feel that in that submission lay their strength.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Discipline
House
Instance
Soldier
Submission
Submit
Citizen
Formed
Lay
Rigid
Soldiers
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Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Character
Differences
Doubt
Scotch
Affect
French
Irish
Profoundly
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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 the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Enemy
Eye
Partiality
Political
Suspicion
Apparent
Dante
Enemies
Ground
Italy
Puts
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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.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Existence
Implied
Regard
Beings
Influences
Origin
Respecting
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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 wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Art
Believe
Fancy
Middle Ages
People
Ages
Spell
Wishing
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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.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Birth
Doctrine
Evolution
Influence
Investigation
Method
Study
Needless
Perhaps
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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, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Running
England
Fancy
Fraud
Hype
Legislation
Middle Ages
Mind
Satisfied
Study
Ages
Commercial
Period
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