Goldwin Smith
Historian
1823-08-13
Books by Goldwin Smith
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Quotes by Goldwin Smith
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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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Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
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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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America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
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