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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Goldwin Smith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race. - Goldwin Smith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature. - Goldwin Smith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Personality is lower than partiality. - Goldwin Smith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke. - Goldwin Smith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain. - Goldwin Smith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express. - Goldwin Smith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Closely approaching Scotland, the northern coast of Ireland in course of time invited Scotch immigration, which formed as it were a Presbyterian Pale. - Goldwin Smith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Rome was great in arms, in government, in law. - Goldwin Smith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
In the Great Charter there is a provision in favour of the Welsh, who were allied with the Barons in insurrection against the Crown. - Goldwin Smith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication. - Goldwin Smith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The materials of the novelist must be real they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation. - Goldwin Smith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Roman law in the same manner was a rule of expediency, rightly or wrongly conceived, with comparatively little tincture of religion. - Goldwin Smith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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