Penns Country And Other Buckinghamshire Sketches With Illus
Penns Country And Other Buckinghamshire Sketches With Illus
Edward Stanley Roscoe
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I can give you no idea of the effect ; I made them all mad. " But to the quietude of Bradenham Disraeli had for a time to retire to continue his musings and his rambles about the hills and woods in the intervals of his meteoric appearances as a Macaroni — as eighteenth-century people would have called him — in town. A more singular contrast between the two kinds of hfe cannot easily be imagined, nor can we well think of one who would be less contented — with his orientally ambitious dreams — wi...th the quiet scenes and secluded life of those Chiltern hillsides. Yet if one thing in Disraeli's life is more certain than another, it is that those places were engraved on his memory and his affections. At length, in 1837, Disraeli securely made the first political step, and became member for Maid- 5—2 68 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE SKETCHES stone ; and in the autumn of 1848, after the death of his father, he completed the purchase of the Hughenden estate, * which was not far from Braden- ham, up another of the small chalk valleys of the Chiltems, and so linked for its remaining years his life permanently with a district and a county with which in the first instance he had become associated by the merest and most unforeseen of chances.
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