A Selection From Goldwin Smiths Correspondence

Author : Goldwin Smith
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ISBN 13 : 9781331160236
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book A Selection From Goldwin Smith's Correspondence written by Goldwin Smith and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Selection From Goldwin Smith's Correspondence: Comprising Letters Chiefly to and From His Engish Friends, Written Between the Years 1846 and 1910 I Could wish that it had fallen to the lot of someone else to collect, select, and edit Goldwin Smith's letters and the letters written to him; for I was born more than a generation after he was, and I knew him intimately only during the last twenty years of his life. However, as his legally appointed literary executor, I have considered it to be my duty to publish some of his letters and some of the letters written to him. Goldwin Smith, although he lived to the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, belongs to the middle and latter part of the nineteenth. To be precise, he was born on August 13, 1823, and died on June 7, 1910. Nevertheless, the subjects he deals with in these letters - or, at all events, a great many of them - are subjects with which we deal to-day. He was a most far-seeing man; and he made huge generalisations. And the questions which interested him were large questions. In fact, even when he was discussing little questions, such was the calibre of his mind that he discussed them from very broad standpoints. Goldwin Smith counted among his friends many of the eminent men of his time. John Bright, Richard Cobden, John Stuart Mill he knew intimately. He met and talked with Tennyson and Carlyle, and once at least sat at the same dinner-table with Macaulay. He stayed at Lambeth Palace with Tait, then Archbishop of Canterbury. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.