Canadian - Historian | August 13, 1823 - June 7, 1910
Personality is lower than partiality.
Goldwin Smith
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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.
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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.
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We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.
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Above all nations is humanity.
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The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.
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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.
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If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
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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.
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Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
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That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.
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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.
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