Disraeli
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Breakfasting Out
“Men who breakfast out are generally liberals. Have not you observed that? I wonder why?” “It shows a restless revolutionary mind,” said Lady Firebrace, “that can settle to nothing; but must be running after gossip the moment they are awake.” (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Continue reading
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civil and religious liberty
In the civil wars, the Egremonts pricked by their Norman blood, were cavaliers and fought pretty well. But in 1688, alarmed at the prevalent impression that King James intended to insist on the restitution of the church estates to their original purposes, to wit, the education of the people and the maintenance of the poor,… Continue reading
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Use Values and Corn Laws, Aristotelian Marxists and High Tories
In a reply to Owen White’s comment on my last post I claimed that English Toryism worthy of the name suffered its final defeat in 1846 with the triumph of the free trade movement and the abolition of the Corn Laws. To explain what I meant I want to consider the account of the anti-conservative nature… Continue reading