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Edward Augustus Freeman Quotes

1823–1892 England

Edward Augustus Freeman (2 August 1823 – 16 March 1892) was an English historian, architectural artist, and Liberal politician during the late-19th-century heyday of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom William Ewart Gladstone, as well as a one-time candidate for Parliament. He held the position of Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, where he tutored Arthur Evans; later he and Evans would be activists in the Balkan uprising of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1874–1878) against the Ottoman Empire.

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This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it.

I am parochially minded; but my parish is a big one, taking in all civilized Europe and America.

I must confess that I have never read W. Malmsb. de Pont. His Kings are enough to make me thoroughly despise him as a lying affected French scoundrel.

We must recognize the spirit which dictated the Petition of Right as the same which gathered all England around the banners of returning Godwin, and remember that the "good old cause" was truly that for which Harold died on the field and Waltheof on the scaffold.

Statement on the Examination Statute (1850)

I say then without hesitation that fox-hunting, which ages back may have been a praiseworthy means of ridding the country of a noxious animal, has, in its modern shape, degenerated into a sport of wanton and deliberate cruelty. Strip it of its disguises, and it is that and nothing else.

The Morality of Field Sports', The Fortnightly Review (1869)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edward Augustus Freeman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.