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... Disraeli's father , Isaac , had other ambitions ; he is remembered as the author of Curiosities of Literature . A freethinker , he allowed the future Prime Minister and novelist to be baptized as a child into the Church of England . The ...
... Disraeli's father , Isaac , had other ambitions ; he is remembered as the author of Curiosities of Literature . A freethinker , he allowed the future Prime Minister and novelist to be baptized as a child into the Church of England . The ...
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... Disraeli combined a curiously romantic , indeed histrionic , imagina- tion with a genius for the necessary compromises and calculating realism of ordinary politics . This romantic imagination is seen at its most grandiose not in ...
... Disraeli combined a curiously romantic , indeed histrionic , imagina- tion with a genius for the necessary compromises and calculating realism of ordinary politics . This romantic imagination is seen at its most grandiose not in ...
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... Disraeli's character . It makes the difference between the Disraeli of history and Disraeli as Vivian Grey . - But Disraeli , the constructor of an ideal , chivalric world inhabited by noble and noble - minded youths , was also a ...
... Disraeli's character . It makes the difference between the Disraeli of history and Disraeli as Vivian Grey . - But Disraeli , the constructor of an ideal , chivalric world inhabited by noble and noble - minded youths , was also a ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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