Coningsby; Or, The New Generation

by Benjamin Disraeli

Overview

Benjamin Disraeli was a British politician who twice served as the Prime Minister and also became the Earl of Beaconsfield.  Disraeli is noted for being influential as a politician and as a novelist.  This edition of Coningsby; Or, The New Generation includes a table of contents.

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ISBN-13:	9781518303166
Publisher:	Kypros Press
Publication date:	11/05/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

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CHAPTER IX. MILLBANK was the son of one of the wealthiest manufacturers in Lancashire. His father, whose opinions were of a very democratic bent, sent his son to Eton, though he disapproved of the system of education pursued there, to show that he had as much right to do so as any duke in the land. He had, however, brought up his only boy with a due prejudice against every sentiment or institution of an aristocratic character, and had especially impressed upon him in his school career, to avoid the slightest semblance of courting the affections or society of any member of the falsely-held superior class. The character of the son as much as the influence of the /father, tended to the fulfilment of these injunctions. Oswald ,'Millbank was of a proud and independent nature; reserved, a little stern. The early and constantly-reiterated dogma of his father, that he belonged to a class debarred from its just position in the social system, had aggravated the grave and somewhat discontented humour of his blood. His talents were considerable, though invested with no dazzling quality. He had not that quick and brilliant apprehension, which, combined with a memory of rare retentiveness, had already advanced Coningsby far beyond his age, and made him already looked to as the future hero of the school. But Mill- bank possessed one of those strong, industrious volitions whose perseverance amounts almost to genius, and nearly attains its results. Though Coningsby was by a year his junior, they were rivals. This circumstance had no tendency to remove the prejudice which Coningsby entertained against him, but its bias on the part of Millbank had a contrary effect. The influence of the individual isnowhere so sensible as at school. There the personal qualities strike without any interveni...