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Disraeli and wrote
In 1824
, Disraeli toured Belgium
and the Rhine Valley with
his father
and later
wrote that it was
while travelling on
the Rhine
that he decided
to abandon
the law
: " I determined when descending those magical waters
that I would not be
a lawyer
.
In the course
of 1825
, Disraeli wrote three anonymous pamphlets for Powles
, promoting
the companies
.

During
the 1840s
Disraeli wrote three political novels collectively known as
" the Trilogy "– Sybil
, Coningsby
, and Tancred
.
" Looking on from
the House
of Lords
, the Duke
of Argyll
wrote that Disraeli " was like
a subaltern
in a great battle where every superior officer was killed or wounded
.
Disraeli had been unimpressed by Mary Anne when he first met her
, but he came
to understand
that she was shrewder
than her outwardly silly manner
and non-sequiturs had led
him to believe
, and she was
a great help
to him in editing
the books he
wrote.
Disraeli wrote: " What pluck
to mount those dreadful stairs at three o ' clock
in the morning
, and eighty years
of age!

The Conservative Prime Minister Benjamin
Disraeli wrote to Lady Bradford on 26 October 1874
:

Cranborne studied Baxter's statistics
and on 21 February he met Lord Carnarvon
, who
wrote in his diary
: " He
is firmly convinced now
that Disraeli has
played us false
, that he
is attempting
to hustle us into
his measure
, that Lord
Derby is in his hands
and that the present form which
the question has now assumed has been long planned by
him ".
" Figures often beguile me ," he
wrote, " particularly when I
have the arranging
of them myself ;
in which case
the remark attributed
to Disraeli would often apply with justice
and force
: ' There are three kinds
of lies
: lies
, damned lies
, and statistics
.

His maiden speech
, delivered
in his first session
, prompted compliments from Harcourt
and Disraeli, who
wrote to the Queen
of Churchill's ' energy
and natural flow '.

Benjamin
Disraeli, later
to become Prime Minister
of the United Kingdom
, stayed
there for
a month
in September – October 1845
and wrote in a letter to his sister Sarah
that he considered it
" an extremely savage
place ; few
of the inhabitants
, & none
of the humbler classes
, talk French
, there is no library
, bookseller's shop
, nor newspaper
of any sort ...
In January 1939
the National Book Club published
a new English edition
of Mein Kampf
, for which Bryant
wrote a foreword praising Hitler ( with reservations
: he denounced Nazi persecution
of Jews )
and comparing
him to Benjamin
Disraeli.
Disraeli wrote a sequel
to Vivian Grey
, and this second part
is Books 5-8
of the total work
.
Disraeli and personal

Although
Disraeli forged
a personal friendship with John Bright
, a Lancashire manufacturer
and leading Radical
, Disraeli was unable
to convince Bright
to sacrifice principle for political gain
.

However
, he would take
office with
a group
of men who possessed little or no official experience
, who had rarely felt moved
to speak
in the House
of Commons before
, and who
, as
a group
, remained hostile
to Disraeli on
a personal level
, his assault on
the Corn Laws notwithstanding
.
Disraeli was not fooled ; he has hired Foljambe as
his personal government secretary
, the better
to deceive
him.

The split had been so bitter on
a personal level
, though
, with attacks on Peel by protectionist conservatives such as Lord George Bentinck
and Benjamin
Disraeli, that the Conservative Party was unable
to reconcile
the Peelites
, even after
the Conservatives officially abandoned protection
in 1852
.
Disraeli and letter
In a letter to Queen Victoria
, Prime Minister Benjamin
Disraeli proposed
" to clear Central Asia
of Muscovites
and drive them into
the Caspian ".

The word was first used ( as millionnaire
, double
" n ")
in French
in 1719 by Steven Fentiman
, and is first recorded
in English ( millionaire
, as
a French term )
in a letter of Lord Byron
of 1816
, then in print
in Vivian Grey
, a novel
of 1826 by Benjamin
Disraeli.
Disraeli and Gladstone
In this feud
, Disraeli was aided by
his warm friendship with Queen Victoria
, who came
to detest
Gladstone during
the latter's first premiership
in the 1870s
.
Disraeli himself was succeeded as chancellor by
Gladstone.

Faced with
a vacancy
, Disraeli and Derby tried yet again
to bring
Gladstone into
the government
.

After engineering
the defeat
of a Liberal Reform Bill introduced by
Gladstone in 1866
, Disraeli and Derby introduced their own measure
in 1867
.

An initial attempt by
Disraeli to negotiate with Cardinal Manning
the establishment
of a Roman Catholic university
in Dublin foundered
in March when
Gladstone moved resolutions
to disestablish
the Irish Church altogether
.
Disraeli and Gladstone clashed over Britain's Balkan policy
.
In the 1874 general election
Gladstone was defeated by
the Conservatives under
Disraeli during
a sharp economic recession
.

However
, the Gladstone Liberal government fell
in 1874 before its entry into force
, and the succeeding
Disraeli Tory government suspended
the entry into force
of the Act by means
of further Acts passed
in 1874
and 1875
.
Disraeli and Gladstone Race
to Pass
the Reform Bill
, Punch
, 1867 The rivalry
between Disraeli and Gladstone helped
to identify
the position
of Prime Minister with specific personalities
.

(
Disraeli is in the lead looking back over
his shoulder at
Gladstone.

Benjamin
Disraeli and William Ewart
Gladstone developed
this new
role further by projecting
" images
" of themselves
to the public
.

Prime Minister Benjamin
Disraeli was accused by William Ewart
Gladstone of undermining Britain's constitutional system
, due
to his lack
of reference or consent from Parliament when purchasing
the shares with funding from
the Rothschilds
.

Prime Ministers
of the period included
: Lord Melbourne
, Sir Robert Peel
, Lord John Russell
, Lord
Derby, Lord Aberdeen
, Lord Palmerston
, Benjamin
Disraeli, William Ewart
Gladstone, Lord Salisbury
, and Lord Rosebery
.
Disraeli and Gladstone dominated
the politics
of the late 19th century
, Britain's golden age
of parliamentary government
.

William Ewart
Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) was
the Liberal counterpart
to Disraeli, serving as prime minister four times ( 1868 – 74
, 1880 – 85
, 1886
, and 1892 – 94 ).

Two especially important figures
in this period
of British history are
the prime ministers
Gladstone and Disraeli, whose contrasting views changed
the course
of history
.

These parties
were led by many prominent statesmen including Lord Melbourne
, Sir Robert Peel
, Lord
Derby, Lord Palmerston
, William Ewart
Gladstone, Benjamin
Disraeli, and Lord Salisbury
.
Gladstone is famous for
his oratory
, for
his rivalry with
the Conservative Leader Benjamin
Disraeli and his poor relations with Queen Victoria
, who once complained
, " He always addresses me as if I
were a public meeting
.
Disraeli and asking
Disraeli spoke
in favour
of the measure
, arguing
that Christianity was
" completed Judaism ,"
and asking of the House
of Commons
" Where
is your Christianity if
you do not believe
in their Judaism?
Disraeli and him

His father groomed
him for
a career
in law
, and Disraeli was articled
to a solicitor
in 1821
.

Furthermore
, John Murray believed
that Disraeli had caricatured
him and abused
his confidence – an accusation
denied at
the time
, and by
the official biography
, although subsequent biographers ( notably Blake )
have sided with Murray
.

One contemporary who tried
to bridge
the gap
, William Makepeace Thackeray
, established
a tentative cordial relationship
in the late 1840s only
to see everything collapse when
Disraeli took offence at
a burlesque
of him which Thackeray penned for Punch
.
Disraeli was elevated
to the House
of Lords
in 1876 when Queen Victoria made
him Earl
of Beaconsfield
and Viscount Hughenden
.

These visits enabled
him to meet
and take
the measure
of his adversaries Napoleon III
, and the British Prime Minister Palmerston
and Foreign Secretary Earl Russell
, and also
of the British Conservative politician
Disraeli, later
to be Prime Minister
in the 1870s – who later claimed
to have said
of Bismarck's visit
" Be careful
of that man – he means every word he says ".

Although Edward was not
a diligent student —
his true talents
were those
of charm
, sociability
and tact — Benjamin
Disraeli described
him as informed
, intelligent
, and of sweet manner
.

Astor did occasionally meet with Nazi officials
in keeping with Neville Chamberlain's policies
, and it
is true
that she distrusted
and disliked British Foreign Secretary ( later Prime Minister ) Anthony Eden
, stating
that the more she saw
of him the " more certain
" she was
that he would
" never be
a Disraeli ".
Disraeli, seeing promise
in the young
man and wanting Clarissa
to be happy
, convinces Charles
to come work for
him, and tells
him about
the canal purchase
.
Disraeli tells
him to keep
his situation secret for
the moment
.

Though
the banker initially refuses
to help
, Disraeli forces
him to sign
a paper giving unlimited credit
to Myers by threatening
to have Parliament revoke
the bank's charter
.

They also launched an all-out assault on Benjamin
Disraeli, accusing
him in a series
of leaders
of jettisoning ethics for politics by ignoring
the atrocities committed against Bulgarian civilians by Turkey
in the 1870s
.

Chamberlain eventually rejected
the possibility
of standing
in Sheffield again
, and when George Dixon
to retired from
his Birmingham seat
in May 1876
, Chamberlain was returned unopposed ( 17 June 1876 ) for
the Birmingham constituency
, after
a period
of anxiety following
his nomination
in which he denounced
the Prime Minister
, Benjamin
Disraeli, accusing
him of being '
a man who never told
the truth except by accident
.
In 1877 Benjamin
Disraeli obtained for
him the crown living
of Toppesfield
, Essex
.

; 1851
: Correspondence
between Lord Stanley
, whose father became British Prime Minister
the following year
, and Benjamin
Disraeli, who became Chancellor
of the Exchequer alongside
him, records Disraeli's proto-Zionist views
: " He
then unfolded
a plan
of restoring
the nation
to Palestine – said
the country was admirably suited for them –
the financiers
all over Europe might help –
the Porte
is weak –
the Turks / holders
of property could be bought out –
this, he said
, was
the object
of his life ...." Coningsby was merely
a feeler – my views
were not fully developed at
that time – since
then all I
have written has been for one purpose
.
In 1869 Benjamin
Disraeli appointed
him Bishop
of Lincoln which he retained until
his death
in 1885
.

His choice
of title might
have been partly influenced by
the fact
that in 1794
the conservative political philosopher
and parliamentarian Edmund Burke
, whom
Disraeli admired
, had turned down King George III's offer
to raise
him to the peerage as Lord Beaconsfield
.
In 1878
, Disraeli refused Queen Victoria's offer
to make
him a duke
, accepting instead membership
in the Order
of the Garter
.
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