Lectures and Essays

Lectures and Essays

Goldwin Smith, British historian and journalist (1823-1910)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Prefatory Note

- The Greatness Of The Romans

- The Greatness Of England

- The Great Duel Of The Seventeenth Century

- An Episode Of The Thirty Years' War

- The Lamps Of Fiction

- The Ascent Of Man

- Proposed Substitutes For Religion

- The Labour Movement

- What Is Culpable Luxury

- A True Captain Of Industry

- A Wirepuller Of Kings

- The Early Years Of The Conqueror Of Quebec

- Falkland And The Puritans

- The Early Years Of Abraham Lincoln

- Alfredus Rex Fundator

- The Last Republicans Of Rome

- Austen-leigh's Memoir Of Jane Austen

- Pattison's Milton

- Coleridge's Life Of Keble