221-98 THE RIGHT HONOURABLE BENJAMIN DISRAELI, M.P. A LITERARY AND POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY. Addressed to the New Generation. By Thomae Maclinigh!. Before this, the English People have taken very preternatural-looking Spectres LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, 1854. [The Author and Publisher reserve to themselves the right of Translating this Work.] A LITERARY AND POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY. CHAPTER I. I THINK it my duty to state the conclusions which an attentive consideration of Mr. Disraeli's career has forced upon my mind. If there be anything that has more distinguished the political history of our country than another, it is, that, however much the great offices of state may have been made the prize of individual ambition, there have still been some great rules of political morality which have seldom been violated, and never altogether outraged without general reprobation. I cannot but think that these great principles of English morality, by being brought from the quiet domestic B |