Coningsby (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Disraeli, Benjamin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440073198 ISBN 13 : 9781440073199

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2017

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In considering the Tory scheme, the author recognised in the CHURCH the moat powerful agent in the previous development of England, and the most efficient means of that renovation of the national spirit at which he aimed- The Church is a sacred corporation for the promulgation and maintenance in Europe of certain A sian principles, which, although local in their birth, are of divine origin, and of universal and eternal application. In asserting the paramount character of the ecclesiastical polity and the majesty of the theocratic principle, it became necessary to ascend to the origin of the Christian Church, and to meet in a spirit worthy of a critical and comparatively enlightened age, the position of the descendants of that race who were the founders of Christianity. The modern Jews had long laboured under the odium and stigma of mediaeval malevolence. In the dark ages, when history was unknown, the passions of societies, undisturbed by traditionary experience, were strong, and their convictions, unmitigated by criticism, were necessarily fanatical. The Jews were looked upon in the middle ages as an accursed race, the enemies of Grod and man, the especial foes of Christianity.
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Excerpt from Coningsby

It was a bright May morning some twelve years ago, when a youth of still tender age, for he had certainly not entered his teens by more than two years, was ushered into the waiting-room of a house in the vicinity of St. James's Square, which, though with the general appearance of a private residence, and that too of no very ambitious character, exhibited at this period symptoms of being occupied for some public purpose.

The house door was constantly open, and frequent guests even at this early hour crossed the threshold. The hall table was covered with sealed letters; and the hall porter inscribed in a book the name of every individual who entered.

The young gentleman we have mentioned found himself in a room which offered few resources for his amusement. A largo table amply covered with writing materials, and a few chairs were its sole furniture, except the grey drugget that covered the floor, and a muddy mezzotinfo of the Duke of Wellington that adorned its cold walls. There was not even a newspaper; and the only books were the Court Guide and the London Directory.

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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1440073198
• ISBN 13: 9781440073199
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 644