Barbara Mikulski
American politician
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
Goldwin Smithwas a British-born academic and historian who was active in both Great Britain and North America. From 1856 to 1866, he was a professor of modern history at the University of Oxford.
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Goldwin Smithwas a British-born academic and historian who was active in both Great Britain and North America. From 1856 to 1866, he was a professor of modern history at the University of Oxford. Smith taught at Cornell University from 1868 to 1872, and was instrumental in establishing the university’s international reputation, but left when it began admitting female students. He is the namesake of Goldwin Smith Hall at Cornell University, and was outspoken regarding his often controversial political views. Smith was a supporter of the Union during the American Civil War and a critic of imperialism. He was also opposed to the Irish Home Rule movement and women’s suffrage, along with holding Anglo-Saxonist and antisemitic views.
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?
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
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.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
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.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
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.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
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.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
Personality is lower than partiality.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
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.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
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.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens – Thackeray himself.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
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.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
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.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
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.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
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.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
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.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
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.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
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.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
Above all nations is humanity.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)
The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
British historian and journalist (1823-1910)