Goldwin Smith (1823 1910) was a British historian and journalist. After studying at Magdalen College, Oxford, Smith became a leading advocate of university reform before being appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford in 1858. He resigned his position in 1866, and spent two years lecturing at Cornell University before moving to Toronto following his marriage in 1875. He was considered by contemporaries a leading proponent of left-wing intellectual radicalism. This volume, first published in 1863, contains a collection of letters written by Smith concerning British colonial...
Goldwin Smith (1823 1910) was a British historian and journalist. After studying at Magdalen College, Oxford, Smith became a leading advocate of unive...
Cowper is the most important English poet of the period between Pope and the illustrious group headed by Wordsworth, Byron, and Shelley, which arose out of the intellectual ferment of the European Revolution. As a reformer of poetry, who called it back from conventionality to nature, and at the same time as the teacher of a new school of sentiment which acted as a solvent upon the existing moral and social system, he may perhaps himself be numbered among the precursors of the revolution, though he was certainly the mildest of them all. As a sentimentalist he presents a faint analogy to...
Cowper is the most important English poet of the period between Pope and the illustrious group headed by Wordsworth, Byron, and Shelley, which arose o...
"The rapid growth of the French population in the Canadian provinces and the New England States has given rise to much speculation as to the future of the race. Thoughtful men in the Dominion see in its steady increase and aggressive character elements of danger to the stability of the Confederation. The last census returns show that over one third of the population of Canada is of French origin, while in the New England States there is a large and growing French-Canadian element, wedded to its language, religion, and traditions, and controlled to an extraordinary degree by its astute and...
"The rapid growth of the French population in the Canadian provinces and the New England States has given rise to much speculation as to the future of...
Commonwealth Or Empire, A Bystander's View of the Question by Goldwin Smith. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1902 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
Commonwealth Or Empire, A Bystander's View of the Question by Goldwin Smith. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1902 and ma...
