Ottawa – a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit. — Goldwin Smith
Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground — Goldwin Smith
It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when rome commenced her career — Goldwin Smith
Who can doubt that between the english and the french, between the scotch and the irish — Goldwin Smith
The roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made — Goldwin Smith
The natural barriers between england and scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension — Goldwin Smith
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian — Goldwin Smith
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation. — Goldwin Smith
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express. — Goldwin Smith
There are the manufacturing multitudes of england; they must have work, and find markets for their work — Goldwin Smith
As to london we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than — Goldwin Smith
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the middle ages — Goldwin Smith
There is a spell in mediaeval art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying — Goldwin Smith
If it were a real effort to live in the middle ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication. — Goldwin Smith
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the middle ages, any more than an artist — Goldwin Smith
But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the middle ages, let him study the — Goldwin Smith
We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself. — Goldwin Smith
Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and — Goldwin Smith