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Goldwin Smith (13 August 1823 – 7 June 1910) was a British historian and journalist, active in the United Kingdom and Canada.

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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.

Borders, Kingdoms, Saxon, Scotland, Sufficient

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

America, Pretentious, Things, Ugly, Ugly Things

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

Converted, Mandate, Ottawa, Political, Village

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.

Citizen, Discipline, House, Soldier, Soldiers, Strength

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?

Character, Differences, History, Scotch

Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here. '

Aca, Nada, Names, Signifying, Two

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

Ancient, Besides, Excellence, Historical, Writers

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.

Humanity, Jews, Race, Superior, Triumph

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.

Enemies, Enemy, Eye, God, Political, Suspicion

Above all nations is humanity.

Humanity, Nations

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.

Historian, Humanity, Party, Sect, Sympathy

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.

Fraud, Hype, Let, Mind, Running, Satisfied

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

Field, Gathered, Humanity, Novelists, Real

Personality is lower than partiality.

Lower, Partiality, Personality

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

Arrogance, Character, Corny, English, Joke

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.

Black, Country, Markets, Ugly, Would Be

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

Beauty, Churches, Heart, Ignorant, Poetry

Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.

Canada, Door, Doors, Might, Nature, Rich

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.

Age, Artist, Interest, Student, Students

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

Art, Art Is, Express, Expression, High

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