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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 wrote a personal letter to Gladstone, asking him to place the good of the party above personal animosity: " Every man performs his office, and there is a Power, greater than ourselves, that disposes of all this ..." In responding to Disraeli Gladstone denied that personal feelings played any role in his decision then and previously to accept office, while acknowledging that there were differences between him and Derby " broader than you may have supposed.
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 and Vivian
Disraeli turned towards literature after his financial disaster, motivated in part by a desperate need for money, and brought out his first novel, Vivian Grey, in 1826.
After producing a Vindication of the English Constitution, and some political pamphlets, Disraeli followed up Vivian Grey with a series of novels, The Young Duke ( 1831 ), Contarini Fleming ( 1832 ), Alroy ( 1833 ), Venetia and Henrietta Temple ( 1837 ).
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.
Vivian Grey provided a natural beginning for students of Disraeli, and a frequent touchstone for discussions of Disraeli's political and literary career.
The Representative was launched on January 25, 1826, and apparently never had a proper editor – Disraeli quarrelled with Murray and later satirized him in a novel, Vivian Grey, as the " Marquess of Carabas.

Disraeli and Grey
Among these works were equestrian portraits of Queen Victoria and the prince consort, painted for Christ's Hospital ; the Prince of Wales ; an equestrian group of the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort ; Sidney Herbert, afterwards Lord Herbert of Lea ; Lord John Russell, afterwards Earl Russell ; Benjamin Disraeli, afterwards Earl of Beaconsfield ; General Sir James Hope Grant ; Sir George Grey ; Edward, earl of Derby, first lord of the treasury ; Lord Clyde ; Viscount Palmerston, painted for Harrow School ; Viscount Gough ; Lord Truro, lord high chancellor ; Sir Frederick Pollock, lord chief baron ; Sir William Erle, lord chief justice of the common pleas ; John Sumner, archbishop of Canterbury ; George Moberly, bishop of Salisbury ; and John Gibson Lockhart.

Disraeli and second
* April 18 – William Ewart Gladstone defeats Benjamin Disraeli in the United Kingdom general election to become Prime Minister for the second time.
This is the second time this has occurred ; Stafford Northcote lived in Number 10 at one point, while Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli occupied Number 11.
His second premiership was short and frustrating, and Russell failed in his great ambition of expanding the franchise-a task that would be left to his Conservative successors, Derby and Benjamin Disraeli.
Symbolic overtures, in fact, such as Queen Victoria's grandiose title " Empress of India ", celebrated during the second premiership of Benjamin Disraeli in the 1870s, helped to obscure this fact.
D ' Orsay and Disraeli were good friends in the 1830s – to the point that Disraeli asked d ' Orsay to be his second, when it appeared that Disraeli would fight a duel with Morgan O ' Connell, the son of Irish agitator Daniel O ' Connell.
On the other occasion referred to, Cairns spoke in opposition to Lord John Russell's amendment to the motion for the second reading of the government Reform Bill, winning the approval of Benjamin Disraeli.
His son, Charles Herries, was appointed Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue by Disraeli during the latter's second premiership in 1877.
The seventh Earl of Dumore served as a Lord-in-Waiting ( government whip in the House of Lords ) in the second Conservative administration of Benjamin Disraeli and was also Lord Lieutenant of Stirlingshire.
He was a Conservative politician and served as a Lord of the Treasury in the second Conservative administration of Benjamin Disraeli.
His grandson, the fourth Earl, served in the second Conservative administration of Benjamin Disraeli as a Lord-in-Waiting ( government whip in the House of Lords ) from 1874 to 1880.
His second but eldest surviving son, the second Baron, served as a Lord-in-Waiting ( government whip in the House of Lords ) from 1866 to 1868 in the Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli.
Russell has acted in many plays and TV series including Disraeli, Testament of Youth and the part of Ted Sullivan, the short-lived second husband of Rita Sullivan in Coronation Street.
The song that resulted from the meeting, " Tales of Brave Ulysses ", was recorded as the B-side of Cream's smash hit " Strange Brew " and was included on Cream's second album Disraeli Gears.
He was first Solicitor General and later Attorney General in the second government of Benjamin Disraeli.
* William Gladstone from the death of Disraeli in 1881 until the end of his second term in 1885.
Benjamin Disraeli became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for the second time after Mr Gladstone's government was defeated in the general election of 1874.
He beat writer and comedienne A L Kennedy with 2601 to 565 votes, becoming only the second Rector to be elected to two consecutive terms, along with Conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli ( 1871 – 1877 ).
Baillie was a friend of Benjamin Disraeli, and in 1835 was actually called upon by Disraeli to serve as his second ( after d ' Orsay declined ), when it appeared that Disraeli and Morgan O ' Connell, the son of Daniel O ' Connell, were going to fight a duel, which apparently did not actually occur.

Disraeli and part
Before and during his political career, Disraeli was well known as a literary and social figure, although his novels are not generally regarded as a part of the Victorian literary canon.
The paper was a failure, in part because the mining " bubble " burst in late 1825, which ruined Powles and Disraeli.
In the latter part of 1929, Jack Warner hired George Arliss to star in Disraeli, which was a success.
When the prying Mrs. Travers arrives, Disraeli allows her to learn of the purchase, and she exultantly admits to her key part in sabotaging Myers.
In totally different vein, he appeared in the 1981 Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show, having been offered the part of Disraeli in a play what Ernie Wise had written.
In 1874 when Disraeli formed an administration Salisbury returned as Secretary of State for India and in 1878 was appointed Foreign Secretary and played a leading part in the Congress of Berlin, despite doubts over Disraeli's pro-Ottoman policy.
Magee had taken a prominent part in the Ritual controversy, opposing what he conceived to be romanising excess in ritual, as well as the endeavour of the opposite party to " put down Ritualism ," as Disraeli expressed it, by the operation of the civil law.
His son Benjamin Disraeli, who became the prime minister, lived there for part of his early life.
In opposition he did not take as prominent a part as previously, but when Disraeli ( by then created Earl of Beaconsfield ) died in 1881, there were some Conservatives who considered that his claim to lead the party was better than that of Lord Salisbury.
The writer Isaac D ' Israeli lived at No. 6 from 1817 to 1829 and for part of that time his son, the future Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli lived with him.
In the latter part of 1929, much to Harry's dismay, younger brother Jack would hire sixty-one year old actor George Arliss to star in the studio's film Disraeli.
* that part of the county of Wolfe included in the township municipalities of Garthby, Stratford and Wolfestown, the municipality of Disraeli, the parish municipality of Sainte-Praxède, the village municipalities of Beaulac and Disraeli, together with that part of the parish municipality of Saints-Martyrs Canadiens included in the township of Garthby.

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