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.^ Benjamin Disraeli , 1st Earl of Beaconsfield ( 1804 - 12-21 – 1881 - 04-19 ) was a British politician, novelist, and essayist, serving twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .- Benjamin Disraeli - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
^ He became Earl of Beaconsfield when he was prime minister.- Booknotes 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.booknotes.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister, born on December 21, 1804; Sybil , 1845 .- *�* Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine | Book of Days | December 21| St Thomas mumping 2012 McKenna Jos� Arg�elles Maya Timewave zero Mayan calendarAustralia Christmas beetle 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.wilsonsalmanac.com [Source type: General]
.^ Benjamin Disraeli , 1st Earl of Beaconsfield ( 1804 - 12-21 – 1881 - 04-19 ) was a British politician, novelist, and essayist, serving twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .- Benjamin Disraeli - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
^ STANLEY WEINTRAUB: Disraeli was a novelist; Disraeli was twice prime minister and probably one of the major figures of the 19th century in England.- Booknotes 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.booknotes.org [Source type: Original source]
^ William Pitt (the Younger) served as Prime Minister on a number of occasions during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ WEINTRAUB: Disraeli was prime minister for the first time in 1868, and the two illegitimate children were born by then.- Booknotes 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.booknotes.org [Source type: Original source]
^ He was a great prime minister, I don’t deny, but his One Nation conservatism was largely a continuation of what Labour had been doing, only with a more mixed economy.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ You say that none of the stuff the Wilson or Attlee did was as important as this, I agree but they were far better prime ministers than Churchill, who struggled to run the peace time country and also relied to heavily on his charisma.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
[1] He played an instrumental role in the creation of the modern
Conservative Party after the
Corn Laws schism of 1846.
.^ Well, then, if it is neither the Crown nor the Church, whose rights and privileges this Conservative party propose to vindicate, is it your House, the House of Lords, whose powers they are prepared to uphold?- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ WEINTRAUB: I think we'd have to consider him something on the order of a liberal Republican; that is, he was in the Conservative Party but he was in the liberal wing of his party.- Booknotes 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.booknotes.org [Source type: Original source]
^ 'No, no, no,' said Lord Monmouth; 'the Tory party is organised now; they will not catch us napping again: these Conservative Associations have done the business.'- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Not until the 1860s would Derby and Disraeli be on easy terms, and the latter's succession of the former assured.
.^ William Gladstone on discovering, after Disraeli's death, that he had refused a state funeral to be buried alongside his wife.- Benjamin Disraeli - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Supposedly Gladstone to Disraeli, actually between Sandwich and Foote: John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich : "Foote, I have often wondered what catastrophe would bring you to your end; but I think, that you must either die of the p-x, or the halter."- Benjamin Disraeli - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
^ William Ewart Gladstone , letter to Malcolm MacColl ( 1877 - 08-11 ) He was quite remarkable enough to fill a volume of Éloge.- Benjamin Disraeli - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ While the duchess was dressing, Bertha St. Aldegonde and Victoria Montairy, who had just arrived, came in to give her a rapid embrace while their own toilets were unpacking.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In about a quarter of an hour the gentleman bowed and retired, and another person came in, and one whom Lothair recognized as a young man who had been sitting during the first act in a stall beneath him.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ During the first four-and-twenty hours he felt like a child who had returned to school, and, the day after, like a man on a desert island.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The end of Disraeli's badly-received maiden speech in the House of Commons in 1837.- Benjamin Disraeli - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The four votes he had inherited in the House of Commons had been increased, by his intense volition and unsparing means, to ten; and the very day he was raised to his Marquisate, he commenced sapping fresh corporations, and was working for the strawberry leaf.- Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/9) 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 .- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ But he was a public figure; people would read what he had to say because it was Disraeli even it didn't turn out to be an exciting novel.- Booknotes 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.booknotes.org [Source type: Original source]
^ How can the great titans of Victorian politics – Disraeli, Gladstone, and Salisbury – be ignored.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ She indeed generally succeeded in conveying an impression to those she addressed, that she had never seen them before, did not care to see them now, and never wished to see them again.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ He was also a novelist ( Vivian Grey ; Popanilla ; The Rise of Iskander ; Sybil, or the Two Nations ).- *�* Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine | Book of Days | December 21| St Thomas mumping 2012 McKenna Jos� Arg�elles Maya Timewave zero Mayan calendarAustralia Christmas beetle 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.wilsonsalmanac.com [Source type: General]
.^ In 2004, Atlee was voted as the greatest British Prime Minister of the 20th century by MORI; an opinion which is also largely held by the British public.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Despite the highly unpopular war in Iraq, and the Cash for Peerages scandal, Tony Blair will go down in history as one of the great British Prime Ministers.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Maybe rather than having 1 number 1 prime minister, we should appreciate that many differnt prime ministers have contributed to the great nation that is Britain.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
He was twice successful as the
Glasgow University Conservative Association's candidate for
Rector of the University, holding the post for two full terms between 1871 and 1877.
Early life
Disraeli's biographers believe he was descended from
Italian Sephardic Jews. He claimed
Spanish ancestry, possibly referring to the ultimate origin of his family heritage in
Spain prior to the
expulsion of Jews in 1492, after which many Jews emigrated, in two waves: the bulk to the
Ottoman Empire, but many more, first to northern Italy, then to the Netherlands, and finally England.
[2] .^ One more example of Isaac D'Israeli's words being misattributed to his son.- Benjamin Disraeli - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The eldest son hated his father; and, it was said, in spite had married a lady to whom that father was attached, and with whom Lord Monmouth then meditated a second alliance.- Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/9) 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This was quoted from Turner by Isaac D'Israeli in his The Amenities of Literature (1841) and, through the confusion of father with son, has come to be falsely attributed to Benjamin Disraeli.- Benjamin Disraeli - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
Benjamin changed the spelling in the 1820s by dropping the apostrophe.
[3] His siblings included Sarah (1802–1859), Naphtali (1807), Ralph (1809–1898), and James (1813–1868).
[4] Benjamin at first attended a small school, the Reverend
John Potticary's school at
Blackheath.
[5] His father had Benjamin
baptised in 1817 following a dispute with their
synagogue. The elder D'Israeli was content to remain outside organized religion. From 1817, Benjamin attended a school at
Higham Hill, in
Walthamstow, under Eliezer Cogan.
[6] His younger brothers, in contrast, attended the superior
Winchester College.
[7]His father groomed him for a career in law, and Disraeli was articled to a
solicitor in 1821. In 1824, Disraeli toured
Belgium and the
Rhine Valley with his father and later wrote that it was while travelling on the
Rhine that he decided to abandon the law: "I determined when descending those magical waters that I would not be a lawyer."
[8] On his return to England he speculated on the stock exchange on various South American mining companies. The recognition of the new South American republics on the recommendation of
George Canning had led to a considerable boom, encouraged by various promoters. In this connection, Disraeli became involved with the financier
J. D. Powles, one such booster. In the course of 1825, Disraeli wrote three anonymous pamphlets for Powles, promoting the companies.
[9].^ Her husband, being an American, was probably a Protestant, but he was a gentleman of the South, and with nothing puritanical about him.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Baron Mecklenburg brought him to me to paint for my great picture of St. John, which is in the gallery of Munich.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ For his part, he had never doubted that a Conservative government was ultimately inevitable; had told Lord John so two years ago, and, between themselves, Lord John was of the same opinion.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Being true Englishmen, they were all against Buckhurst's opponent, who was of the Venetian party, and who ended by calling out Buckhurst for his personalities.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ They were gentlemen who, to judge from their general air and the great consideration with which they were treated by those who were occasionally in their vicinity, were personages whose criticism bore authority.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Those who talk of negotiating treaties of reciprocity...have they the materials for negotiating treaties of reciprocity?- Benjamin Disraeli - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
The paper was a failure, in part because the mining "bubble" burst in late 1825, which ruined Powles and Disraeli. Also, according to Disraeli's biographer,
Lord Blake, the paper was "atrociously edited", and would have failed regardless.
.^ He began the electrical research that, along with other scientific inquiries, would occupy him for the rest of his life (in between bouts of politics and money-making).- ActionScript-ToolBox: by Benjamin Franklin 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC actionscript-toolbox.com [Source type: Original source]
[10]
Before his entrance into parliament, Disraeli was involved with several women, most notably Henrietta, Lady Sykes (the wife of
Sir Francis Sykes, 3rd Bt), who served as the model for
Henrietta Temple.
.^ Lord Eskdale, who was always doing kind things to actors and actresses, had a great regard for Villebecque, with whom he had often supped.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ On the other hand, Lord Monmouth hated his younger son, who had married, against his consent, a woman to whom that son was devoted.- Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/9) 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The lord-lieutenant was the first person who congratulated Lothair, though the high-sheriff had pushed forward for that purpose, but, in his awkward precipitation, he got involved with the train of the Hon.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
As Lord Blake observed: "The true relationship between the three cannot be determined with certainty ... there can be no doubt that the affair [figurative usage] damaged
.^ He said to me the other night the same things as he said to me at Rome many years ago.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And it answered: you made the acquaintance of its eminent men, men whose names will be soon in everybody's mouth, for before another year elapses Rome will be the cynosure of the world.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ When I was old enough to understand my mother told me that doctor and many others charged a sliding scale based on what they thought their patients could afford (ours was around the middle), thus subsidising the poor by the wealthy.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
[11]In 1839 he settled his private life by marrying
Mary Anne Lewis, the rich widow of
Wyndham Lewis, Disraeli's erstwhile colleague at Maidstone.
.^ "I went to an evening party last season -- I came up from Christchurch on purpose for it -- and if ever they catch me at another, they shall inflict any penalty they please."- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ END OF BOOK VI. BOOK VII. CHAPTER I. It was one of those gorgeous and enduring sunsets that seemed to linger as if they wished to celebrate the mid-period of the year.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ A woman came to Miss Arundel and told her that, in one of the ambulances, was a young man whom they could not make out.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[12]
Isaac D'Israeli
Father of Benjamin Disraeli
Literary career
.^ He inflated the economy so that it got out of control in the first part of his premiership, followed by measures to control domestic inflation at a time when world commodity prices (particularly oil) increased steeply.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Perhaps things may turn out better than they first promised.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ "I believe Colonel Campian has large estates in the South," said Lothair; "but, though really I have no right to speak of his affairs, he must have suffered very much."- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ In fact, they wanted a Phoenix: a very rich man, who would do exactly as they liked, with extremely low opinions and with very high connections.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Indeed, feeling of any kind did not suit the present age: it was not _bon ton_; and in some degree always made a man ridiculous.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Reviewers were sharply critical on these grounds of both the author and the book.
.^ But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.- Benjamin Disraeli - Wikiquote 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
[13]
A Young Disraeli
by Sir Francis Grant, 1852
.^ Tis some indefinite recollection of these mystic passages of their young emotion that makes grey-haired men mourn over the memory of their schoolboy days.- Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/9) 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The ladies withdrew; Sir Joseph began to talk politics, although the young men had threatened their fair companions immediately to follow them.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Exclusive principles in the constitution, and restrictive principles in commerce, have grown up together; and have really nothing in common with the ancient character of our political settlement, or the manners and customs of the English people.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
During the same period he had also written
The Revolutionary Epick and three
burlesques,
Ixion,
The Infernal Marriage, and
Popanilla.
.^ And the accomplished Sir Francis was there, and several R. A. s of eminence, for Phoebus was a true artist, and loved the brotherhood, and always placed them in the post of honor.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ A thunderbolt in a summer sky, as Sir William Temple says, could not have produced a greater sensation.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[14]
During the 1840s Disraeli wrote three political novels collectively known as "the Trilogy"–
Sybil,
Coningsby, and
Tancred.
[15]Disraeli's relationships with other male writers of his period were strained or non-existent.
.^ For his part, he had never doubted that a Conservative government was ultimately inevitable; had told Lord John so two years ago, and, between themselves, Lord John was of the same opinion.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[16] .^ Her hereditary disease developed itself; gradually, but in a manner alarming to those who loved her.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ But his reception was not encouraging, at least not sufficiently cordial for one who by nature was retiring and reserved.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ All of course by mere accident; one might meet the same men regularly every day for a month, who were only 'passing through town.'- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The lateness of the hour permitted the lord-lieutenant and those guests who had arrived only the previous day to look over the castle, or ramble about the gardens.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Disraeli took revenge in
Endymion (published in 1880), when he caricatured Thackeray as "St. Barbe".
[17].^ Always obliging, she was never wearied of chanting his praises to her noble admirer, who was apparently much gratified she should have bestowed her esteem on one of whom she would necessarily in after-life see so much.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ All the soft, social, domestic sympathies of his nature, which, however abundant, had never been cultivated, were developed by the life he was now leading.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[18]
Parliament
Sir Robert Peel, Bt.
Prime Minister 1834–35, 1841–46
Lord John Manners
Friend of Disraeli, and leading figure in the
Young England movement
Disraeli had been considering a political career as early as 1830, before he departed England for the
Mediterranean.
.^ And a Venetian constitution did govern England from the accession of the House of Hanover until 1832.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ As a picture of aristocratic life in England in the first part of the nineteenth century it has, however, enduring significance and charm.- Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/9) 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ For there is no man, however gifted, even however conceited, who has any real confidence in himself until he has acted."- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The Moderate men, who thought more of local than political circumstances, liked the name of Coningsby.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The brief administration elevated him in public opinion, and even in the eye of Europe; and it is probable that a much longer term of power would not have contributed more to his fame.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Politics had as yet appeared to him a struggle whether the country was to be governed by Whig nobles or Tory nobles; and he thought it very unfortunate that he should probably have to enter life with his friends out of power, and his family boroughs destroyed.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The streets were quite deserted, and he wandered about with a strange curiosity, gratified as he sometimes encountered famous objects he had read of, and yet the true character of which no reading ever realizes.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Was it to be a Tory government, or an Enlightened- Spirit-of-the-Age Liberal-Moderate-Reform government; was it to be a government of high philosophy or of low practice; of principle or of expediency; of great measures or of little men?- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ 'Quite impossible, sir;' and the clerk, withdrawing his glance, continued his writing.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Further, at the time
Gallomania was published, Disraeli was in fact electioneering in
High Wycombe in the Radical interest.
[19] Disraeli's politics at the time were influenced both by his rebellious streak and by his desire to make his mark.
.^ In the political world of course he never mixed, but the friends of his boyhood were deeply interested in affairs, and they lost no opportunity which he would permit them, of cultivating his society.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Taper beat Tadpole; and the great Conservative party beat the shattered and exhausted Whigs.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ They require great care; they want both air and exercise; they must be worn frequently; you cannot lock them up.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ 'The Whigs are worn out,' said Vere, 'Conservatism is a sham, and Radicalism is pollution.'- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[20].^ 'I feel that I am not sufficiently prepared for so great a responsibility as a seat in the House of Commons,' said Coningsby.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I say it now, and I have said it a hundred times, the House of Commons is a more aristocratic body than the House of Lords.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ He won a landslide victory over Winston Churchill and was the first Labour Prime Minister to have a majority in the House of Commons.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
[21]
.^ "Then you have a great power against you," said the general, in "addition to England."- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Lothair used to hurry to town from his morning visit, dine at some great house, which satisfied the demands of society, and then drive down to Roehampton.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And now I am sent here with full powers, and am a pacha of the highest class, and with a prospect of some warm work.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ You would not have given him five-and-twenty years; he seemed redolent of youth.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Don John of Austria won Lepanto at twenty-five, the greatest battle of modern time; had it not been for the jealousy of Philip, the next year he would have been Emperor of Mauritania.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ During five-and-twenty years every influence that can develop the energies and resources of a nation had been acting with concentrated stimulation on the British Isles.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ And now they were quite ready to vote against the Reform Bill, but this was to prevent a dissolution.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And the Oxford Road Works, where they are always making a little change, bit by bit reform, eh!- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ For myself, while I ascribe little influence to physical causes for the production of this perplexity, I am still less of opinion that it can be removed by any new disposition of political power.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Although Disraeli forged a personal friendship with
John Bright, a Lancashire manufacturer and leading Radical, Disraeli was unable to convince Bright to sacrifice principle for political gain.
.^ Indeed, I never met any one who seemed to me so clever, or to say such remarkable things.'- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ There are some books, when we close them; one or two in the course of our life, difficult as it may be to analyse or ascertain the cause; our minds seem to have made a great leap.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It is not impossible that the political movements of our time, which seem on the surface to have a tendency to democracy, may have in reality a monarchical bias.- Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/9) 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[22]
Protection
.^ Sir Robert Peel- Conservative 1834-35, 1841-46 5.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Robert Peel- Conservative 1834-35, 1841-46 3.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Though I think often Attlee is over looked by history and by the general population, as are most ex-prime ministers.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
[23] .^ This is Hexham House, and where Lord Hexham lived in the days of the first Georges.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ At the end of the first week after Coningsby's arrival, Lord Eskdale appeared, bringing with him Lucian Gay; and soon after followed the Marquess of Beaumanoir and Mr. Melton.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ To start with Blair moved the labour party towards the centre of the political spectrum which abandoned many of the Labour party’s traditional voters and many of their mp’s.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
[24]
.^ We have seen that at an early period of his career, Mr. Peel withdrew from official life.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It would seem, therefore, that Sir Robert Peel, from an early period, meditated his emancipation from the political confederacy in which he was implicated, and that he has been continually baffled in this project.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ It was a very few days after the first evening visit of Lothair to Belmont that he found himself one morning alone with Theodora.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ What he most prided himself on was being the hereditary owner of a real deer -- park the only one, he asserted, in the county.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ There was a chair before the table, so placed as if some one had only recently quitted it; a book was open, but turned upon its face, with an ivory cutter by its side.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[25] Looking on from the House of Lords, the
Duke of Argyll wrote that Disraeli "was like a
subaltern in a great battle where every superior officer was killed or wounded."
[26] If the remainder of the Conservative Party could muster the electoral support necessary to form a government, then Disraeli was now guaranteed high office.
.^ Many bright dames and damsels, and many influential men, were there, who little deemed that deep and daring thoughts were there masked by many a gracious countenance.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ After the ladies had retired, Bertram, who dined at the same house, moved up to him; and Hugo Bohun came over and took the vacant seat on his other side.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ To enter the House of Commons a slave and a tool; to move according to instructions, and to labour for the low designs of petty spirits, without even the consolation of being a dupe.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[27]
Bentinck and the leadership
Lord George Bentinck
Conservative leader in the commons 1846–48
In 1847 a small political crisis occurred which removed Bentinck from the leadership and highlighted Disraeli's differences with his own party. In the
preceding general election,
Lionel de Rothschild had been returned for the
City of London. Ever since Catholic Emancipation, members of parliament were required to swear the oath "on the true faith of a Christian." Rothschild, an unconverted Jew, could not do so and therefore could not take his seat.
.^ The Prime Minister is a Member of Parliament, and in his executive capacity, is accountable to Parliament.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ That is why he is a great leader but not a great prime minister.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ He was a good leader, but he was not a good prime minister.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
[28].^ 'What a pity it is you have a House of Commons here!- Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/9) 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ If your state is not listed and you would like to know if we have added it since the list you have, just ask.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Of course you will ask Lord Henry and your friend Sir Charles Buckhurst; and is there any one else that you would like to invite?'- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[29] .^ And a party did go -- all the Phoebus family, and Lord and Lady St. Aldegonde, and Lady Corisande, and Bertram, and Lothair.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[32] .^ On this head his tutor at Oxford had fortified him; by a conviction of the Apostolical succession of the English bishops, which no Act of Parliament could alter or affect.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[33] .^ It is the atheists alone, I fear, who are now carrying every thing before them, and against whom there is no comfort, except the rock of St. Peter."- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ "I do not know how his lordship will get on with one of my guardians, the cardinal; but his eminence is not here in a priestly character; and, as for that, there is less chance of his differing with the cardinal than with my other guardian Lord Culloden, who is a member of the Free Kirk."- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ 'So do I,' said Lord Eskdale; 'Sidonia is the only man who tells one anything new.'- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ One of these was Mr. Ormsby; the school, the college, and the club crony of Lord Monmouth, who had been his shadow through life; travelled with him in early days, won money with him at play, had been his colleague in the House of Commons; and was still one of his nominees.- Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/9) 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[34]
.^ Had Mr. Secretary Canning remained leader of the House of Commons under the Duke of Wellington, all that he would have gained by the death of Lord Liverpool was a master.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Being true Englishmen, they were all against Buckhurst's opponent, who was of the Venetian party, and who ended by calling out Buckhurst for his personalities.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Now to come to a point that his time as PM is famous for his relationship with the US. Many have perceived Blair as being a puppet for the US including Nelson Mandela who called him “the US FOREIGN MINISTER” for.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In fact at times he was supported by the Labour minority more than by his own party.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
[35] .^ It was a great croquet family, the Brentham family; even listless Lord St. Aldegonde would sometimes play, with a cigar never out of his mouth.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ I understand my tailor has turned Liberal, and is going to stand for one of the metropolitan districts, a friend of Lord Durham; perhaps I shall find him in it when I return.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And yet the interval that elapsed between 1835 and 1837 proved, that there was all this time in the Whig array one entirely competent to the office of leading a great party, though his capacity for that fulfilment was too tardily recognised.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Edward Heath is placed at number 10, to me he is one of the Conservative Party’s weakest leader.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
He and
Mary Anne alternated between Hughenden and several homes in London for the remainder of their marriage.
.^ I will tell you all about him,' said Lord Henry.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ 'I think that all the people about Beaumanoir would stand by the Duke,' said Lord Henry, pensively.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[37]
.^ The House of Lords, even the Monarch himself, has openly announced and confessed, within these ten years, that the will of the House of Commons is supreme.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
At the start of the next session, affairs were handled by a triumvirate of Granby, Disraeli, and
John Charles Herries–indicative of the tension between Disraeli and the rest of the party, who needed his talents but mistrusted the man. This confused arrangement ended with Granby's resignation in 1851; Disraeli effectively ignored the two men regardless.
[38]
Office
First Derby government
The Earl of Derby
Prime Minister 1852, 1858–59, 1866–68
.^ Asquith is also commended for bringing in the Parliament Act of 1911, which reduced the power of the House of Lords so they could only delay, and not outright reject a bill passed from the House of Commons.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ 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.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ 'All is right,' exclaimed the devoted Rigby, in broken tones; 'I have convinced the King that the First Minister must be in the House of Commons.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ To start with she opened up British politics to the lower classes and women, more than those before her, by becoming Prime minister.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Stanley Baldwin was Prime Minister in the late 1930’s.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The result was later hailed by Prime Minister Harold Wilson as a “historic decision”.” .- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The list is extraordinarily biased towards the twentieth century – only two Prime Ministers from other centuries are included.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Sir Henry became Prime Minister on 5th December 1905 and left office on 7th April 1908.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The post is generally acknowledged to have begun with Sir Robert Walpole on 4th April 1721 when he obtained the post of First Lord of the Treasury.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ And if the country sticks to free trade, and would enlarge its currency, and be firm to the Protestant faith, it will, under Divine Providence, continue to progress.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ They would all have been asking who she was, where she came from, how long Lothair had known her, all those questions, kind and neighborly, which under such circumstances occur.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Derby supposedly remarked at the time, "Pshaw! These are not names which I can put before the Queen!"
[39]
.^ 'Paul Evelyn; I met him as I passed Brookes', and he told me that Lord Grey had resigned, and the King had accepted his resignation.'- Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/9) 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
[40] This time
Lord Derby (as he had become) took office, and to general surprise appointed Disraeli
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
[41] .^ Had Mr. Secretary Canning remained leader of the House of Commons under the Duke of Wellington, all that he would have gained by the death of Lord Liverpool was a master.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[42]
The primary responsibility of a mid-Victorian chancellor was to produce a Budget for the coming fiscal year.
.^ 'A good farmer's friend cry without Malt Tax would work just as well.'- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Even Lord Monmouth half talked of going, though, for his part, he wished people would come to him, and never ask him to their houses.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ If the working-classes were properly lodged, at their present rate of wages, they would be richer.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[43] .^ In this volume you will find many a thought illustrated and many a principle attempted to be established that we have often together partially discussed and canvassed.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This was too much for Sir Joseph, whose political knowledge did not reach much further back than the ministry of the Mediocrities; hardly touched the times of the Corresponding Society.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This ministry, strong in the confidence of the sovereign, the parliament, and the people, might, by the courageous promulgation of great historical truths, have gradually formed a public opinion, that would have permitted them to organise the Tory party on a broad, a permanent, and national basis.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ About a quarter of a mile further on, appeared a village of not inconsiderable size, and remarkable from the neatness and even picturesque character of its architecture, and the gay gardens that surrounded it.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[44] .^ In office for barely two years, and not, in practice, head of government for much of that time because he was terminally ill.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
[45].^ Well, then, if it is neither the Crown nor the Church, whose rights and privileges this Conservative party propose to vindicate, is it your House, the House of Lords, whose powers they are prepared to uphold?- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ CHAPTER V. Towards the end of the session of 1836, the hopes of the Conservative party were again in the ascendant.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ 'No, no, no,' said Lord Monmouth; 'the Tory party is organised now; they will not catch us napping again: these Conservative Associations have done the business.'- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Had Mr. Secretary Canning remained leader of the House of Commons under the Duke of Wellington, all that he would have gained by the death of Lord Liverpool was a master.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ But you have effaced this exclusive character of Parliament; you have determined that a communion with the Established Church shall no longer be part of the qualification for sitting in the House of Commons.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ There is no reason, so far as the constitution avails, why every member of the House of Commons should not be a dissenter.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[46]
Opposition
With the fall of the government, Disraeli and the Conservatives returned to the opposition benches.
.^ 'Come, come, Coningsby,' said Lord Vere, the son of a Whig minister; 'I am all for Manchester and Birmingham.'- Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/9) 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
Disraeli himself was succeeded as chancellor by Gladstone.
[47]Second Derby government
The Viscount Palmerston
Prime Minister 1855–58, 1859–65
.^ You may have a corrupt government and a pure community; you may have a corrupt community and a pure administration.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In office for barely two years, and not, in practice, head of government for much of that time because he was terminally ill.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ For his part, he had never doubted that a Conservative government was ultimately inevitable; had told Lord John so two years ago, and, between themselves, Lord John was of the same opinion.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
He again offered a place to Gladstone, who declined.
.^ Had Mr. Secretary Canning remained leader of the House of Commons under the Duke of Wellington, all that he would have gained by the death of Lord Liverpool was a master.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I shall positively return to-morrow, and I will dine with you at White's, and we will go to the House of Commons together, or go to the play."- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Gratitude to Lord Grey was the hustings-cry at the end of 1832, the pretext that was to return to the new-modelled House of Commons none but men devoted to the Whig cause.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ He had a minority government and relied on coalitions to survive.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
[48] The principal measure of the 1858 session would be a bill to re-organise governance of India, the
Indian Mutiny having exposed the inadequacy of dual control.
.^ The lateness of the hour permitted the lord-lieutenant and those guests who had arrived only the previous day to look over the castle, or ramble about the gardens.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ After sunset, enveloped in their cloaks, the general and his companions, the party increased by the officers who had been in command previous to his arrival, smoked their cigars round the camp-fire.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The lord-lieutenant was the first person who congratulated Lothair, though the high-sheriff had pushed forward for that purpose, but, in his awkward precipitation, he got involved with the train of the Hon.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
The bill, however, was riddled with complexities and had to be withdrawn.
.^ Although a Roman, I am not a Roman Catholic; and Colonel Campian's views on Italian affairs generally would, I fear, not entirely agree with Lord St. Jerome's."- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[49]
Faced with a vacancy, Disraeli and Derby tried yet again to bring
Gladstone into the government.
.^ There is not a man who speaks such good English as you do."- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ There is just the difference between the matron and the maiden; that is all.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ A great thing is a great book; but greater than all is the talk of a great man.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Gladstone also hinted at the strength of his own faith, and the role it played in his public life, when he addressed Disraeli's most personal and private appeal:
I state these points fearlessly and without reserve, for you have yourself well reminded me that there is a Power beyond us that disposes of what we are and do, and I find the limits of choice in public life to be very narrow.—W. E. Gladstone to Disraeli, 1858
[50]
.^ His son-in-law, Lord Everingham, who was a Whig, and a clearheaded, cold-blooded man, looked upon the New Poor Law as another Magna Charta.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ On the other hand, Lord Monmouth hated his younger son, who had married, against his consent, a woman to whom that son was devoted.- Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/9) 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Hugo Bohun to Mrs. Campian, who was sitting apart, listening to Lord St. Aldegonde's account of his travels in the United States, which he was very sorry he ever quitted.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Had Mr. Secretary Canning remained leader of the House of Commons under the Duke of Wellington, all that he would have gained by the death of Lord Liverpool was a master.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The two years that followed the Reform of the House of Commons are full of instruction, on which a young man would do well to ponder.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
The East India Company and its Governor-General were replaced by a
viceroy and the Indian Council, while at Westminster the
Board of Control was abolished and its functions assumed by the newly created India Office, under the
Secretary of State for India.
[51]
The 1867 Reform Bill
William Ewart Gladstone
Four-time Prime Minister
.^ Taper beat Tadpole; and the great Conservative party beat the shattered and exhausted Whigs.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ How can the great titans of Victorian politics – Disraeli, Gladstone, and Salisbury – be ignored.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ 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.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The Tories lose an important election at a critical moment; 'tis the Jews come forward to vote against them.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
As a result, this would give the Conservatives a greater chance of forming a majority government. After so many years in the 'stagnant backwaters' of British politics, this seemed most appealing.
.^ It was a Reform of Parliament when the towns were summoned.- Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/9) 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The representation of the Press is far more complete than the representation of Parliament.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Lord Monmouth, who was never greater than in adversity, and whose favourite excitement was to aim at the impossible, had never been more resolved on a Dukedom than when the Reform Act deprived him of the twelve votes which he had accumulated to attain that object.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[54] This act was unpopular with the right wing of the Conservative Party, most notably
Lord Cranborne (later the Marquess of Salisbury), who resigned from the government and spoke against the bill, accusing Disraeli of "a political betrayal which has no parallel in our Parliamentary annals."
[55] Cranborne, however, was unable to lead a rebellion similar to that which Disraeli had led against Peel twenty years earlier.
[56]
Prime Minister
First government
The Marquess of Salisbury
Three-time Prime Minister
.^ He was the last person one would have expected to recognize in an Oxford professor; but we live in times of transition.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Don John of Austria won Lepanto at twenty-five, the greatest battle of modern time; had it not been for the jealousy of Philip, the next year he would have been Emperor of Mauritania.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The dinners of both nations would be improved: the English would gain a delightful beverage, and the French, for the first time in their lives, would dine off hot plates.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ But with this in mind this only makes him a good leader, not a good prime minister.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ That is why he is a great leader but not a great prime minister.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ He was a good leader, but he was not a good prime minister.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
As Disraeli remarked, "I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole."
[57]
.^ The great public questions that were the consequence of the Reform of the House of Commons, had also agitated their young hearts.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ She retired as an MP in 1992, however, she is still an active member of the House of Lords today.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ 'They said there was no use discussing the Reform Bill in our House.- Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/9) 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ His short term as Prime Minister brought one great success.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Though I think often Attlee is over looked by history and by the general population, as are most ex-prime ministers.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Nor is there any doubt that, under these circumstances, the Conservative Cause would have secured for the new ministers a parliamentary majority.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
He made only two major changes in the cabinet: he replaced
Lord Chelmsford as
Lord Chancellor with
Lord Cairns, and brought in
George Ward Hunt as
Chancellor of the Exchequer. Disraeli and Chelmsford had never got along particularly well, and Cairns, in Disraeli's view, was a far stronger minister.
[58]
Disraeli's first premiership was dominated by the heated debate over the
established Church of Ireland.
.^ "But, when I hear of young nobles, the natural leaders of the land, going over to the Roman Catholic Church, I confess I lose heart and patience.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The Church is alarmed at the scheme of a latitudinarian university, and learns with relief that funds are not forthcoming for its establishment; a Jew immediately advances and endows it.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Although a Roman, I am not a Roman Catholic; and Colonel Campian's views on Italian affairs generally would, I fear, not entirely agree with Lord St. Jerome's."- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ "But, when I hear of young nobles, the natural leaders of the land, going over to the Roman Catholic Church, I confess I lose heart and patience.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ "What the soul is to man, the Church is to the world," said the cardinal.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The parliamentary position was critical, and the future of the Opposition seemed to depend on the majority by which their resolutions on the Irish Church were sent up to the House of Lords.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Well, then, if it is neither the Crown nor the Church, whose rights and privileges this Conservative party propose to vindicate, is it your House, the House of Lords, whose powers they are prepared to uphold?- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
While Disraeli's government survived until the
December general election, the initiative had passed to the Liberals, who were returned to power with a majority of 170.
[59]Second government
.^ He won a landslide victory over Winston Churchill and was the first Labour Prime Minister to have a majority in the House of Commons.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The parliamentary position was critical, and the future of the Opposition seemed to depend on the majority by which their resolutions on the Irish Church were sent up to the House of Lords.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Benjamin Disraeli- Conservative 1868, 1874-80 16.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ A manufacturing town, enfranchised under the Reform Act, already gained by the Conservative cause!- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The 1867 Reform Act was the birth of democracy in the UK. And the various suffrage reforms that Gladstone introduced in the 1880s and further were magnificent.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Herein, then, we detect the real cause of all that irregular and unsettled carriage of public men which so perplexed the nation after the passing of the Reform Act.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ He also introduced new measures to protect children, in restricting the ways in which they could be employed and the manner of work they could undertake.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
As a result of these social reforms the
Liberal-Labour MP Alexander Macdonald told his constituents in 1879, "The Conservative party have done more for the working classes in five years than the Liberals have in fifty."
[60]
Imperialism
.^ 'I can remember the old house,' said the Duchess, as she took Mr. Lyle's arm; 'and I am happy to see the new one.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It will adopt new dogmas, or it will abjure old ones; any thing to distinguish it from the non-conforming herd in which, nevertheless, it will be its fate to merge.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ 'Nay, it appears to me to lie in a nutshell,' said Lucian Gay; 'one party wishes to keep their old boroughs, and the other to get their new peers.'- Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/9) 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Disraeli cultivated a public image of himself as an Imperialist with grand gestures such as conferring on Queen Victoria the title “Empress of India”.
Disraeli was, according to some interpretations, a supporter of the expansion and preservation of the
British Empire in the
Middle East and
Central Asia. In spite of the objections of his own cabinet and without Parliament's consent, he obtained a short-term loan from
Lionel de Rothschild in order to purchase 44% of the shares of the
Suez Canal Company.
.^ They had arrived at the limit of the pleasure-grounds, and they wandered into the park and its most sequestered parts.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I do think though it is rather unfair to claim that the list is bad; even those who disagree with its contents still seem to agree with the choices on the most part.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
[61]Disraeli and Gladstone clashed over Britain's Balkan policy.
.^ Admittedly, he saw that as consisting of continental Europe, with the British Empire as a separate entity.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ I recognise the great economic security that at last resulted (thanks in no small measure to North Sea oil though).- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfil appointed by God and His moral law; the individual toward his family, his town, his country; the nation toward the country of countries, humanity -- the outward world.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I believe Rigby's great speech on Aldborough has done more towards the reaction than all the violence of the Political Unions put together.'- Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/9) 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[62] Gladstone, however, saw the issue in moral terms, for Bulgarian Christians had been massacred by the Turks and Gladstone therefore believed it was immoral to support the Ottoman Empire. Blake further argued that Disraeli's imperialism "decisively orientated the Conservative party for many years to come, and the tradition which he started was probably a bigger electoral asset in winning working-class support during the last quarter of the century than anything else".
[62]A leading proponent of
the Great Game, Disraeli introduced the
Royal Titles Act 1876, which created Queen Victoria
Empress of India, putting her at the same level as the Russian Tsar.
.^ In a beautiful morning dress, and leaning on the arm of Mr. Rigby, she descended the stairs, and was handed into her carriage by that gentleman, who, seating himself by her side, ordered them to drive to Richmond.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Disraeli scored another diplomatic success at the
Congress of Berlin in 1878, in preventing Bulgaria from gaining full independence, limiting the growing influence of
Russia in the
Balkans and breaking up the
League of the Three Emperors.
[64] .^ But when the perturbation was a little subsided, and men began to inquire why they were banded together, the difficulty of defining their purpose proved that the league, however respectable, was not a party.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[65]Title and death
.^ Lord Monmouth, starting in his seat, 'some woman has got hold of him, and made him a Whig!'- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ "You may count on Alberta St. Aldegonde and Victoria Montairy, and, I think, Lord Montairy also, if she presses him, which she has promised to do.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 .- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[66]
.^ William Gladstone- Liberal 1868-74, 1880-85, 1886, 1892-94 4.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
The Irish Home Rule vote in England contributed to his party's defeat. Disraeli became ill soon after and died in April 1881.
[67]
He is buried in a vault beneath St Michael's Church in the grounds of his home
Hughenden Manor, accessed from the churchyard. Against the outside wall of the church is a memorial erected in his honour by Queen Victoria.
.^ Had Mr. Secretary Canning remained leader of the House of Commons under the Duke of Wellington, all that he would have gained by the death of Lord Liverpool was a master.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The British Commonwealth was to all intents and purposes alone as an effective anti-axis combatant.- The Top 10 British Prime Ministers - Listverse 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It was to establish him with a French Company in London at some pretty theatre; Lord Eskdale to take a private box and to make all his friends do the same.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[68]Disraeli's Jewishness
.^ Coningsby found that he was born in an age of infidelity in all things, and his heart assured him that a want of faith was a want of nature.- Coningsby / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[69] .^ "Well," said the general, "you see that people are a little exhausted by the efforts of last year; and it must be confessed that no slight results were accomplished.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ "I see no use in speaking to a man about love or religion," said Bertram; "they are both stronger than friendship.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
^ If, for example, in a year's time or so, Bertram continued in the same mind, his father would never be an obstacle to his well-considered wishes.- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
Adam Kirsch, in his biography of Disraeli, states that his Jewishness was "both the greatest obstacle to his ambition and its greatest engine."
[70] Much of the criticism of his policies was couched in
anti-Semitic terms. He was depicted in some antisemitic political cartoons with a big nose and curly black hair, called "
Shylock" and "abominable Jew," and portrayed in the act of
ritually murdering the infant Britannia.
[70] .^ "Perhaps too many temples," said Lothair; "but this ancestor of mine had some imagination."- Lothair / Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 10 February 2010 12:012 UTC infomotions.com [Source type: Original source]
[71]
Disraeli's governments
Works by Disraeli
Fiction
Non-fiction
- An Inquiry into the Plans, Progress, and Policy of the American Mining Companies (1825)
- Lawyers and Legislators: or, Notes, on the American Mining Companies (1825)
- The present state of Mexico (1825)
- England and France, or a Cure for the Ministerial Gallomania (1832)
- What Is He? (1833)
- The Vindication of the English Constitution (1835)
- The Letters of Runnymede (1836)
- Lord George Bentinck (1852)
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- ^ "Benjamin Disraeli". Number10.gov.uk. http://www.number10.gov.uk/history-and-tour/prime-ministers-in-history/benjamin-disraeli. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
- ^ Blake 1966, p. 3. Norman Gash, reviewing Blake's work, argued that Benjamin's claim to Spanish ancestry could not be entirely dismissed. (Gash 1968)
- ^ Opponents, however, continued to include the apostrophe in correspondence. Lord Lincoln, writing to Sir Robert Peel in 1846, referred to "D'Israeli." (Conancher 1958, p. 435). Peel did so as well, see Gash 1972, p. 387. Even in the 1870s, towards the end of Disraeli's career, this practice continued. See Wohl 1995, p. 381, ff. 22.
- ^ Rhind 1993, p. I, 3
- ^ Rhind 1993, p. I, 157
- ^
"Cogan, Eliezer". Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Blake 1966, pp. 11-12
- ^ Blake 1966, p. 22
- ^ Blake 1966, pp. 24–26; Veliz 1975, pp. 637–663
- ^ Blake 1966, pp. 33–34
- ^ Blake 1966, pp. 116–119
- ^ Blake 1966, p. 158
- ^ Graubard 1967, p. 139
- ^ For Blake's account of Henrietta Sykes, see Blake 1966, pp. 94-119.
- ^ Blake, pp. 190-191.
- ^ Cline 1941
- ^ Cline 1943. This view has been accepted by most historians. See Merritt 1968, who argues that St. Barbe was an attack on Thomas Carlyle.
- ^ Dugdale, John. "Review of 'The Politics of Pleasure: A Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli', by William Kuhn". The Guardian. London. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/may/05/featuresreviews.guardianreview26.
- ^ Blake 1966, pp. 84–86
- ^ Blake 1966, p. 87
- ^ Blake, p. 85.
- ^ Trevelyan 1913, p. 207. The specific occasion was the 1852 Budget. Disraeli seems to have held out the possibility of Bright, Richard Cobden, and Thomas Milner Gibson eventually joining the cabinet in exchange for the support of the Radicals.
- ^ Peel's reasons for doing so are disputed. Some historians suggest Edward Stanley's well-known antipathy to Disraeli as the prime factor. Robert Blake dismisses these claims, arguing instead that Peel's need to balance the various factions of the Conservative Party, and the heavy preponderance of aristocrats within the cabinet, precluded Disraeli's inclusion. See Cline 1939, and Blake 1966, pp. 165–166.
- ^ For the bitterness over the Corn Laws, see Blake 1966, pp. 228-234. For the effect of the split, see Blake 1966, pp. 241-243.
- ^ Blake 1966, p. 247
- ^ Quoted in Blake 1966, pp. 247–248
- ^ Blake 1966, p. 260
- ^ Blake 1966, p. 258
- ^ Hansard, 3rd Series, xcv, 1321-1330, 16 December 1847.
- ^ Disraeli, Benjamin (1852). Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography (2nd ed.). Colburn and Co.. pp. 488–489. doi:10.1007/b62130. ISBN 354063293X.
- ^ On the other hand, both Russell and Gladstone thought it was brave for Disraeli to speak as he did. Morley, 715-716.
- ^ Of the 26 Anglican bishops and archbishops who sat in the House of Lords, 23 voted on the measure altogether, and 17 were opposed.
- ^ Hansard, 3rd Series, xcviii, 1374-1378, 25 May 1848.
- ^ Blake 1966, pp. 259–260
- ^ Blake 1966, pp. 261–262
- ^ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Measuring Worth: UK CPI.
- ^ Blake 1966, pp. 251–254
- ^ Blake 1966, pp. 266–269
- ^ Blake 1966, pp. 301–305
- ^ Palmerston got his "tit for tat" with "Johnny Russell", who under pressure from the Crown had dismissed Palmerston from the Foreign Office the previous December.
- ^ The expectation had been that Disraeli would assume the Foreign or Home offices.
- ^ Blake, p. 311.
- ^ Ghosh 1984, pp. 269–273; Matthew 1986, p. 621.
- ^ Bright's diary quotes the conversation in full. See Trevelyan 1913, pp. 205–206
- ^ On the centrality of the income tax, see Matthew 1986, pp. 121–122.
- ^ Blake, pp. 346-347.
- ^ Blake, p. 350.
- ^ Hawkins 1984
- ^ Blake 1966, pp. 379–382
- ^ Blake 1966, pp. 382–384
- ^ Blake 1966, pp. 385–386
- ^ Blake, pp. 442-444.
- ^ Blake, pp. 456-457.
- ^ Conancher 1971, p. 177
- ^ Quoted in Blake 1966, p. 473
- ^ Blake, p. 461..
- ^ Blake 1966, pp. 485–487
- ^ Blake 1966, pp. 487–489
- ^ Blake 1966, pp. 496–502
- ^ Monypenny & Buckle 1929, p. 709
- ^ For the Suez deal, see Blake 1966, pp. 581–587.
- ^ a b Blake 1966, p. 760
- ^ Quoted from Disraeli's letter to the Queen in Mahajan, 53.
- ^ Blake 1966, pp. 649-654
- ^ Blake 1966, pp. 660-679
- ^ Blake 1966, p. 566
- ^ Blake 1966, p. 749
- ^ Blake 1966, pp. 751–756
- ^ Blake 1966, p. 11. See also Endelman 1985, p. 115.
- ^ a b Julius, Anthony (23 January 2009), "Judaism's Redefiner", The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/books/review/Julius-t.html?ref=books, retrieved 18 September 2009
- ^ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,463071,00.html
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| Persondata |
| NAME |
Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES |
Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION |
British politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH |
21 December 1804(1804-12-21) |
| PLACE OF BIRTH |
London, England |
| DATE OF DEATH |
19 April 1881 |
| PLACE OF DEATH |
London, England |
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