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Disraeli

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
February
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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In his seventieth year, age nud oven sorrow sit lightly upon Disraeli. Though it may bo said to havo been only yesterday that he cast his garland of loviug regret on tho coffin of a loving and deyotod wife, he has the same familiar jaunty gait, the samo glossiness of head, and almost dandyish faultlessness of attiro, as of yore. Disraeli is unquostionably tho most verBatile as well as the shrewdest of actors who appear on tho political stage of our British cousins. Still as proud to be ealled a man of fashion as when Willii saw hiin at Lady Blessington's, arrayed in brilliant colors and ostentatious jowels, he earrie3 this social art of ooquetry airily into politics. Hia símiles beam alike to the lord and th peaBant. The favor of his sallow and curl-enfrauied countenance, his siron-like manner, are shed with equal impartiality upon the rustic of Hughenden, with hobnobs amid bucolic bowers, and upon the Manchester artisan, whoso horny hand he grasps with amiable fervor; upon the brewer, whose beer he praises, and upon the bishop, whose rubric inspires h3 most felicitous quotations. The ease with which Disraeli passes from gay to grave and againfrom grave to gay, the graoe with which his f acile tongue discussesone minute of cabbage and crops, and the next of the fall and rise of pires, gain liim more inends than Gladstone attracts with all liis passionate and silvery oratory. Tho feebler hia following in the House, tho remoter the prospect of his return to power, the raerrier seems the humor of this Mark Tapley, and the moro porsistently and gaily ho " chaffs " the other party. When he was Prime Minister, he used to waive away a troublesome question with an epigram, and, amid the laughter which it provok ed, the question and the querist were

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Old News
Michigan Argus