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Cobden, whom it mentioned, to the surprise of the House, by name, and it terminated with a panegyric of himself, elaborate, but rather clumsily expressed." Lord George Bentinck, a Political Biography, by Benjamin D'Israeli. "On the conclusion of this speech cheers burst forth on all sides ... The House adjourned to the 3rd of July.
The elder D'Israeli, from whom I am quoting, writes: "On other occasions, they put burnt old shoes to fume in the censors: ran about the church leaping, singing, dancing, and playing at dice upon the altar, while a boy bishop or pope of fools burlesqued the divine service;" and later on he says: "So late as 1645, a pupil of Gassendi, writing to his master what he himself witnessed at Aix on the Feast of Innocents, says 'I have seen in some monasteries in this province extravagances solemnised which pagans would not have practised.
A characteristic souvenir of the immortal Duke of Wellington occurs to me in connection with this first administration of Lord Derby, well known as the 'Derby D'Israeli Ministry, which may find a place here.
Our honourable friend, Clavering, of the Metropolitan, in his recollections of the British Museum, long since, says, "there sat D'Israeli, daily extracting from the voluminous M.S. letters of James I. and Charles I." Whoever the compiler of this volume may be, it must be allowed that, in the form of notes and biographies, he has brought into less than 350 pages a greater collection of interesting incidents connected with his main subject than many writers would have cared to assemble; and he has accordingly produced a work, in every respect, fitted for popular reading.
Did you read 'Coningsby, that very able book, without character, story, or specific teaching? It is well worth reading, and worth wondering over. D'Israeli, who is a man of genius, has written, nevertheless, books which will live longer, and move deeper. But everybody should read 'Coningsby. It is a sign of the times. Believe me, my dearest Mrs. Martin, Your very affectionate BA.
This letter was addressed to Sir John Coke, the Secretary of State. Court and Times of Charles I. By D'Israeli, Vol. II., p. 242. S.P., Charles I., France. Scudamore to Windebank, I/121 July, 1636. S.P. Dom., Charles I., Vol. CCCXLIV., No. 58. Sir Kenelm Digby to Edward Lord Conway and Kilultagh, 21/31 January, 1637.
Sir R. Peel, in his Memoirs, part 3, p. 259. D'Israeli mistaken in calling it his last speech His account of it He misrepresents it The opinions expressed in it were those O'Connell always held.
Among the names of famous residents we have Sir Richard Steele, Richard Baxter, the Nonconformist divine, Dr. Akenside, and Sir Hans Sloane. The elder D'Israeli, who compiled "Curiosities of Literature," lived in No. 6; he came here in 1818, when his famous son was a boy of fourteen. The College of Preceptors stands on the south side.
D'Israeli says, were burnt in those few years of intolerance rampant and triumphant.
Gilbert had conceived his passion by mere grace. It had developed in him slowly. At twenty years he was a young fellow of seemingly rather sluggish character, without social tendencies, without the common ambitions of his class, much given to absence of mind. About that time he came across one of the volumes of the elder D'Israeli, and, behold, he had found himself.
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