Coningsby; Or, The New Generation, Volume 2Henry Colburn, publisher, 1844 - 350 páginas |
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Coningsby, Or, The New Generation, Volume 2 Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) Visualização completa - 1844 |
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Página 180 - Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions ; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
Página 202 - ... OF SPIRITUAL CHRISTIANITY, and who is Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Berlin, IS A JEW.] Benary, equally famous, and in the same university, is a Jew. Wehl, the Arabic Professor of Heidelberg, is a Jew. Years ago, when I was in Palestine, I met a German student who was accumulating materials for the history of Christianity and studying the genius of the place; a modest and learned man.
Página 1 - What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern : the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Instead of the city of the Violet Crown, a Lancashire village has expanded into a mighty...
Página 37 - From themselves," said Millbank, " and CONINGSBY. 37 the heralds they pay to paint their carriages. But I go to facts. When Henry VII. called his first parliament, there were only twenty-nine temporal peers to be found, and even some of them took their seats illegally, for they had been attainted. Of those twenty-nine not five remain, and they, as the Howards for instance, are not Norman nobility. We owe the English peerage to three sources: the spoliation of the church; the open and flagrant sale...
Página 314 - END OF VOL. II. LONDON: Printed by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street.
Página 175 - There are families in this country," he continued, " of both the great historical parties, that in the persecution of their houses, the murder and proscription of some of their most illustrious members, found judges as unjust and relentless in an open jury of their countrymen, as we did in the conclaves of Madrid and Seville." " Where then would you look for hope ?" " In what is more powerful than laws and institutions, and without which the best laws and the most skilful institutions may be a dead...
Página 41 - My father has often told me that in his early days, the displeasure of a peer of England was like a sentence of death to a man. Why it was esteemed a great concession to public opinion, so late as the reign of George II, that Lord Ferrers should be executed for murder.
Página 173 - You will observe one curious trait," said Sidonia to Coningsby, "in the history of this country. The depository of power is always unpopular. All combine against it. It always falls. Power was deposited in the great Barons. The Church, using the King for its instrument, crushed the great Barons. Power was deposited in the Church. The King, bribing the Parliament, plundered the Church. Power was deposited in the King. The Parliament, using the People, beheaded the King, expelled the King, changed...
Página 309 - An educated nation recoils from the imperfect vicariate of what is called a representative government. Your House of Commons, that has absorbed all other powers in the State, will in all probability fall more rapidly than it rose. Public opinion has a more direct, a more comprehensive, a more efficient organ for its utterance, than a body of men sectionally chosen. The Printing-press is a political element unknown to classic or feudal times. It absorbs in a great degree the duties of the Sovereign,...
Página 35 - I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other CONINGSBY. 35 class of the community possesses. Distinction is the basis of aristocracy. If you permit only one class of the population, for example, to bear arms, they are an aristocracy; not one much to my taste; but still a great fact.