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Excerpt from The Public Life of the Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, K. G Etc;, Etc, Vol. 1 of 2
Lord beaconsfield, the course of whose public life I have here attempted to trace, is the greatest living exemplification of the truth of that saying of Byron, he who surpasses or subdues mankind must look to garner up a pretty fair share of hatred. For forty years he was the best abused public man in England. Every scribbler who could obtain publicity for his lucubrations lifted up his heel against him. Reviewers irresponsible, ignorant reviewers - from Edinburgh and other places made capital for themselves by attacking him. The vilest motives were attributed to him; the most infamous stories were fabricated about him. Those whom he had embalmed for posterity in an epigram, or impaled upon an epithet, have wriggled out the last drops of their venom in attacks upon his honour, his character, his consistency. Adventurer has been the most respectable title accorded to him. Generally the colours have been more glaring; the brush more fully loaded.
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