The Life of Benjamin Disraeli: Earl of Beaconsfield, Volume 1J. Murray, 1910 |
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The Life of Benjamin Disraeli: Earl of Beaconsfield, Volume 1 William Flavelle Monypenny,George Earle Buckle Visualização integral - 1910 |
The Life of Benjamin Disraeli: Earl of Beaconsfield, Volume 1 William Flavelle Monypenny,George Earle Buckle Visualização integral - 1910 |
The Life of Benjamin Disraeli: Earl of Beaconsfield, Volume 1 William Flavelle Monypenny,George Earle Buckle Visualização integral - 1913 |
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Página 269 - I laugh, therefore, at the objection against a man, that at a former period of his career he advocated a policy different to his present one. All I seek to ascertain is whether his present policy be just, necessary, expedient; whether at the present moment he is prepared to serve the country according to its present necessities.
Página 131 - Young authors are apt to fall into affectation and conceit, and the writer of this work sinned very much in these respects; but the affectation of youth should be viewed leniently, and every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
Página 82 - Parnassus, and held me up to public scorn, as exhibiting a lamentable instance of mingled pretension and weakness, and the most ludicrous specimen of literary delusion that it had ever been their unhappy office to castigate, and, as they hoped, to cure. The criticism fell from my hand. A film floated over my vision ; my knees trembled. I felt that sickness of heart, that we experience in our first serious scrape. I was ridiculous. It was time to die.
Página 2 - My grandfather, who became an English Denizen in 1748, was an Italian descendant from one of those Hebrew families whom the Inquisition forced to emigrate from the Spanish Peninsula at the end of the fifteenth century, and who found a refuge in the more tolerant territories of the Venetian Republic.
Página 84 - At this moment, how many' a powerful noble wants only wit to be a Minister ; and what wants Vivian Grey to attain the same end ? That noble's influence. When two persons can so materially assist each other, why are they not brought together...
Página 297 - There was indeed a considerable shouting about what they called Conservative principles; but the awkward question naturally arose, what will you conserve? The prerogatives of the Crown, provided they are not exercised; the independence of the House of Lords, provided it is not asserted; the Ecclesiastical estate, provided it is regulated by a commission of laymen.
Página 232 - I am sure," said she, "they have affected me." "Why," said Johnson, smiling and rolling himself about, "that is because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal truth and politeness, " Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.
Página 83 - Books written by boys, which pretend to give a picture of manners, and to deal in knowledge of human nature, must be affected. They can be, at the best, but the results of imagination acting on knowledge not acquired by experience.
Página 226 - Born in a library and trained from early childhood by learned men who did not share the passions and the prejudices of our political and social life...
Página 359 - Work, it was my intention, while inscribing it with your name, to have entered into some details as to the principles which had guided me in its composition, and the feelings with which I had attempted to shadow forth, though as 'in a glass darkly,' two of the most renowned and refined spirits that have adorned these our latter days.