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  • Professor Steven L. Kaplan's publications on the subject have garnered him the chair of Goldwin Smith Professor of European History at Cornell University and the French government has appointed him a Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite and of l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres.

    The Best Baguette in Paris Lennox Morrison 2011

  • Mari (Sara Paxton) and her parents (Tony Goldwin and Monica Potter) arrive at their beautiful lake front country house for a few days of rest and relaxation.

    Moreland At The Movies: On The Left « 2009

  • Indeed, if there is any thoughtfulness in the novel it is due to the conversations between friends over a glass of wine, in the hallway of Goldwin Smith, or at Moosewood.

    Their Dogs Came With Them Helena María Viramontes 2007

  • A new spirit of Canadian nationalism is abroad which owes nothing to either Macdonald or Goldwin Smith.

    Imperial Legacy 1970

  • North America is not a nation but a continent; and the continentalism which was latent in all of them was open and blatantly avowed in some just as it was in their spiritual father, Goldwin Smith.

    Imperial Legacy 1970

  • You may recall a well-known remark of Goldwin Smith's which went something like this: "I would like to see my country behave towards other nations as an English gentleman behaves towards other men."

    Imperial Legacy 1970

  • Later in the century Goldwin Smith, who had resigned the Regius Professorship of History at Oxford to settle in Toronto, spent his distinguished career urging the futility and foolishness of Canadian insistence on independence.

    What is Canada? 1969

  • In the last century bitter boundary disputes led to the frightening American jingoism, "Fifty-four forty or fight", and later on in Ontario, Goldwin Smith campaigned for reunification of the English-speaking peoples and annexation with the United States.

    The Unsinkable Commonwealth 1967

  • Later in the century Goldwin Smith, who had resigned the Regius Professorship of History at Oxford to settle in Toronto, spent his distinguished career urging the futility and foolishness of Canadian insistence on independence.

    What is Canada? 1964

  • At the outset it had no home; but sometime within the first three years, Sir Edmund Walker was approached by Mr. and Mrs. Goldwin Smith who asked his advice as to the ultimate disposition of their unique residence "The Grange".

    Toronto Should Have the Best 1958

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