Christopher Smith
speaker
315 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Christopher Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The curtain lifted.
Pride of city is natural to men in all times, if they live or have lived in a metropolis noted for dignity or prowess.
Caesar boasted of his native Rome.
Lycurgus of Sparta
Virgil of Andes, Demosthenes of Athens, Archimedes of Syracuse, and Paul of Tarsus.
I should suspect a man of base heartedness who carried about with him no feeling of complacency in regard to the place of his residence, who gloried not in its arts or arms or behaviour, but
Who looked with no exaltation upon its evidences of prosperity, its artistic embellishments, and its scientific attainments?
I have noticed that men never like a place where they have not behaved well.
Swathout did not like New York.
Nor Doctor Webster, Boston.
Men who have free rides in prison vans never like the city that furnishes the vehicle.
When I see in history, Argos, Rhodes, Smyrna, Chios, Colophon, and several other cities claiming Homer, I conclude that Homer behaved well.
Let us not war against this pride of city, nor expect to build up ourselves by pulling others down.
Let Boston have its common, its Fannuel Hall, its Colosseum, and its Atlantic Monthly.
Let Philadelphia talk about its Mint and Independence Hall and Girard College.
When I find a man living in either of those places who has nothing to say in favour of them, I feel like asking him
What mean thing did you do that you do not like your native city?
New York is a goodly city.
It is one city on both sides of the river.
The East River is only the main artery of its great throbbing life.
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