. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. the son of his right hand, should set-tle in a country, Avhere the dynastyseemed at length established throughthe recent failure of Prince CharlesEdward, and where puVdic opinionappeared definitively adverse to per-secution on matters of creed and con-science. Benjamin Disraeli was mar-ried to a lady of his own Hebrewfaith. He prospered in England andsurvived to a great old age. He hadbut one child, named Isaac, who re-ceived a liberal education on the con-tinent, and after sundry miscellaneouspoetical and oth
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. the son of his right hand, should set-tle in a country, Avhere the dynastyseemed at length established throughthe recent failure of Prince CharlesEdward, and where puVdic opinionappeared definitively adverse to per-secution on matters of creed and con-science. Benjamin Disraeli was mar-ried to a lady of his own Hebrewfaith. He prospered in England andsurvived to a great old age. He hadbut one child, named Isaac, who re-ceived a liberal education on the con-tinent, and after sundry miscellaneouspoetical and other eiforts with his pen,settled down ujion criticism, historyand biography, incorporating the re-sults of his protracted studies in TheCuriosities of Literature and otherkindred productions. Gifted with anindependent fortune, and occupying asomewhat isolated position, he devotedhimself to courses of liberal readingwith the zeal of a bibliomaniac. Hedisliked business, and he never re-quired relaxation; he was absorbedin his pursuits. In London his onlyamusement was to ramble among. BENJAMIN DISRAELI. 509 booksellers; if lie entered a club, itwus only to go into tbe library. Inthe country, lie scaicely ever left hisroom, l)Ut to saunter in abstractionupon a terrace, muse over a chapteror coin a sentence. He was a completeliterary character, a man wlio reallypassed his life in his library. Evenmarriage produced no change in thesehabits ; he rose to enter the chamber,where he lived alone with his books,and at uight his lamp was ever litwithin the same walls. Devouring books and libraries tothe last, unlike many of his class, hemade the j^jublic the sharer of hisacquisitions, in the numerous learnedand delightful essays and sketches wehave spoken of—books which havecharmed readers of every age andopened the path to learning to manyan ingenuous youthfid mind. His son, Benjamin Disraeli, the Eng-lish parliamentary leader, was born atthe family residence in Bloomsl)urySquare, London,
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