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... Friendship with Lord Lyndhurst → Self - confidence - Vindication of the British Constitution - Conservative reaction - Taunton election - Crosses swords with O'Connell -- The Runnymede Letters— Admitted into the Carlton Club ...
... Friendship with Lord Lyndhurst → Self - confidence - Vindication of the British Constitution - Conservative reaction - Taunton election - Crosses swords with O'Connell -- The Runnymede Letters— Admitted into the Carlton Club ...
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... friends : I will weigh out the corpse of your mother- mother of mine she never was , but only step - mother and milch cow - and you shan't have the pottage — not yours you observe , but mine . " This really is a pleasing trait of its ...
... friends : I will weigh out the corpse of your mother- mother of mine she never was , but only step - mother and milch cow - and you shan't have the pottage — not yours you observe , but mine . " This really is a pleasing trait of its ...
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... , where he entertained his friends , played whist , and enjoyed himself , ' notwithstanding a wife who never pardoned him his name . ' So successful he had been that His dreamy , he saw his way to founding a THE DISRAELI FAMILY 7.
... , where he entertained his friends , played whist , and enjoyed himself , ' notwithstanding a wife who never pardoned him his name . ' So successful he had been that His dreamy , he saw his way to founding a THE DISRAELI FAMILY 7.
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... friend of Isaac Disraeli , who knew what English public schools were then like , would have recommended him to commit his lad to the rude treatment which he would encounter at Eton or Winchester . A private establishment of a smaller ...
... friend of Isaac Disraeli , who knew what English public schools were then like , would have recommended him to commit his lad to the rude treatment which he would encounter at Eton or Winchester . A private establishment of a smaller ...
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... friend the distin- guished Sharon Turner . The education problem was thus simplified , but not entirely solved . The instruction at Mr. Poticary's was in- different . ' Ben ' had learnt little there . The Latin and Greek were all ...
... friend the distin- guished Sharon Turner . The education problem was thus simplified , but not entirely solved . The instruction at Mr. Poticary's was in- different . ' Ben ' had learnt little there . The Latin and Greek were all ...
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Page 235 - If you look to the history of this country since the advent of Liberalism — forty years ago — you will find that there has been no effort so continuous, so subtle, supported by so much energy, and carried on with so much ability and acumen, as the attempts of Liberalism to effect the disintegration of the Empire of England.
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Page 235 - But selfgovernment, in my opinion, when it was conceded, ought to have been conceded as part of a great policy of imperial consolidation. It ought to have been accompanied by an imperial tariff, by securities for the people of England for the enjoyment of the unappropriated lands which belonged to the sovereign as their trustee...
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Page 236 - Empire shall not be destroyed, and in my opinion no minister in this country will do his duty who neglects any opportunity of reconstructing as much as possible our Colonial Empire, and of responding to those distant sympathies which may become the source of incalculable strength and happiness to this land.
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Page 106 - ... to me of conservative principles; but he does not inform me what they are. I observe indeed a party in the State whose rule it is to consent to no change, until it is clamorously called for, and then instantly to yield; but those are concessionary, not conservative principles. This party treats institutions as we do our pheasants, they preserve only to destroy them.
Page 107 - We owe the English peerage to three sources: the spoliation of the Church; the open and flagrant sale of its honours by the elder Stuarts; and the borough-mongering of our own times.