OR, THE NEW GENERATION. BY B. DISRAELI, ESQ. M.P. AUTHOR OF "CONTARINI FLEMING." Second Edition. IN THREE VOLS. VOL. II. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER; GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1844. CONINGSBY. BOOK IV. CHAPTER I. A GREAT city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents Conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world— Art. In modern ages, Commerce has created London; while Manners, in the most comprehensive sense of the word, have long found a VOL. II. B |